It is 1893, the Eastwood sisters were once close, but splintered apart and estranged for many years, suffering at the hands of their abusive father, only to meet and be drawn together once again at a suffragette rally at St George's Square in New Salem, bringing their considerable strengths to join the fight for women's right to vote. It is a time where the power of the history of witches and witchcraft has been diminished to virtually nothing, existing only in the below the radar voices and rhymes. But I cannot lie if my heart wasn't there with it.Īlix E Harrow replicates the wondrous magic of The Ten Thousand Doors of January which I adored, in this character driven feminist adventure story in this fierce and beautiful homage to the power of women in all their forms, including the three female archetypes represented by the Eastwood sisters, the mother, the maiden and the crone. I am so sorry I didn't like this as much as I wanted and I still want to like. The social, political and historical aspects are also strong here and the idea of, you know, powerful, magical, anarchist ladies is what I love to see in books. The book itself is well-documented, it's obvious that the author did her homework really well.
There were great aspects to it, I'm not being a little petty witch to forget about them. Info-dumping was too a bit much at some points, extending the book more than necessary I felt like it was too much for nothing that couldn't have been outlined in a few phrases here and there.Īll those aspects made the reading slow and a bit unpleasant for me, because between not really connecting with the characters and the too-much-information passages, I kind of forgot about my initial excitement regarding the book. There were also lots of other characters that appeared out of nowhere and as much as I wanted to remember all of them, they kind of overwhelmed and confused me. I couldn't feel any kind of attachment towards the characters and they sometimes felt too lost in their own world, too stubborn, too shallow for their own good. But after about 1/4 of the book, I felt how I lose interest. I was very excited when I got this, I was sure that this is going to be such a great read for me and, in the beginning, it actually was, I was still pretty excited. This is an unpopular opinion, but it's my personal experience with it so I'll just say it as it is.
I honestly, HONESTLY wished I could give this book more stars but I simply couldn't. Thank you, NetGalley and the publisher for allowing me an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review!
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