Read February 2024 Recommended for fairy tale fans. fans of witches ★ ★ ★ ★ 1/2 Very, very nice; very interesting characters and a tight little story without a lot of extra. Much more enjoyable for me than Witchmark, but if you liked that, you should love this. An urban setting with a modern feel, a witch woman realizes her neighborhood is under attack at the same time she is still grieving the death of her mother.
"How must it feel to find your gift, the thing you love that loves you back, and so you give your life to it without thinking?"
My biggest problem is that it does an interesting job of evoking a world, but then at couple of points, I found myself recalibrating. Wait, is this 1940s? 1970? Is this our world? Where are we at? These questions quite possibly could have been answered in the first story set in this world, https://reactormag.com/st-valentine-s... but I had not read it yet. Anyway, I found the ambiguity ended up being a little bit distracting, mostly because then I don't know the grounding rules of the story.
Many thanks to Hirondelle who pointed me the way.
Four and a half bees.
You can find the story at:
https://reactormag.com/ivy-angelica-b...
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