Toil & Trouble
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Description
THERE'S NOTHING MORE POWERFUL THAN A WITCH WHO BELIEVES IN HERSELF.
Women accused of witchcraft. Fearsome girls with arcane knowledge. Toil & Trouble features fifteen stories of girls embracing their power, reclaiming their destinies, and using their magic to create, to curse, to cure, to kill…and to live.
A young witch uses social media to connect with her astrology clients—and with a NASA-loving girl as cute as she is skeptical. A priestess of death investigates a ritualized murder. A bruja who cures lovesickness might need the remedy herself when she falls for an altar boy. A theater production is turned upside down by a visiting churel. A water witch uses her magic to survive the soldiers who have invaded her desert oasis. And in the near future, a group of girls accused of witchcraft must find their collective power…and destroy their captors.
NEVER UNDERESTIMATE THE POWER OF A TEEN WITCH!
Featuring stories by:
Tehlor Kay Mejia
Andrea Robertson
Tess Sharpe
Lindsay Smith
Brandy Colbert
Shveta Thakrar
Robin Talley
Nova Ren Suma
Zoraida Córdova
Brenna Yovanoff
Kate Hart
Jessica Spotswood
Anna-Marie McLemore
Emery Lord
Elizabeth May
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For a hot second I thought I was indecisive about my rating, but honestly, only because the very last story was incredibly powerful. They ended with a bang! All in all, like with every anthology, there were hits & misses here. Some stories didn't suit my tastes, some were a little forgettable and some enchanted me (pun intended). Overall this collection has to be commended for a great deal of diversity in the women it portrays. It was so very queer! I didn't expect that, but I appreciated it! The description for this book in my audiobook service was a little misleading, to be honest, at least I went into it expecting the toils and troubles of adventurous witches in a fantasy world, with intricate magic systems and creatures and so on. That is certainly not what I got. This is definitely YA, sometimes even contemporary literature. There's nothing wrong with that, it just wasn't what I was looking for. Overarching themes: prejudices, sisterhood, independent women, sexism, family dynamics and a whole lotta love constellations.
Description
THERE'S NOTHING MORE POWERFUL THAN A WITCH WHO BELIEVES IN HERSELF.
Women accused of witchcraft. Fearsome girls with arcane knowledge. Toil & Trouble features fifteen stories of girls embracing their power, reclaiming their destinies, and using their magic to create, to curse, to cure, to kill…and to live.
A young witch uses social media to connect with her astrology clients—and with a NASA-loving girl as cute as she is skeptical. A priestess of death investigates a ritualized murder. A bruja who cures lovesickness might need the remedy herself when she falls for an altar boy. A theater production is turned upside down by a visiting churel. A water witch uses her magic to survive the soldiers who have invaded her desert oasis. And in the near future, a group of girls accused of witchcraft must find their collective power…and destroy their captors.
NEVER UNDERESTIMATE THE POWER OF A TEEN WITCH!
Featuring stories by:
Tehlor Kay Mejia
Andrea Robertson
Tess Sharpe
Lindsay Smith
Brandy Colbert
Shveta Thakrar
Robin Talley
Nova Ren Suma
Zoraida Córdova
Brenna Yovanoff
Kate Hart
Jessica Spotswood
Anna-Marie McLemore
Emery Lord
Elizabeth May
Book Information
Posts
For a hot second I thought I was indecisive about my rating, but honestly, only because the very last story was incredibly powerful. They ended with a bang! All in all, like with every anthology, there were hits & misses here. Some stories didn't suit my tastes, some were a little forgettable and some enchanted me (pun intended). Overall this collection has to be commended for a great deal of diversity in the women it portrays. It was so very queer! I didn't expect that, but I appreciated it! The description for this book in my audiobook service was a little misleading, to be honest, at least I went into it expecting the toils and troubles of adventurous witches in a fantasy world, with intricate magic systems and creatures and so on. That is certainly not what I got. This is definitely YA, sometimes even contemporary literature. There's nothing wrong with that, it just wasn't what I was looking for. Overarching themes: prejudices, sisterhood, independent women, sexism, family dynamics and a whole lotta love constellations.