Triton3122 wrote:Thank you both for these great recommendations!! I'm definitely going to check these out!!
I thought of two other series.
The first is the rather dark but excellent Mayfair Witches series by Anne Rice which starts with
The Witching Hour (Mayfair Witches Series #1)
(Note, this series is wonderfully descriptive and exceptionally supernatural, but it's no romance.)
The second is the action-packed and humorous Cassandra Palmer series which starts with
Touch the Dark (Cassandra Palmer Series #1)
Note, Cassie is not a witch per se. She's a time traveling Pythia who gets flashes of the future. She involved in a relationship with a master vampire named Mircea and is attracted to a half-demon war mage named Pritkin.
An alternate history YA fantasy narrated by a young witch named Cate Cahill has received promising reviews and positive reader ratings. It looks like a good choice for anyone seeking a witch fix. Apparently, the story is part coming-of-age tale, part romance and part unresolved mystery.
Born Wicked (The Cahill Witch Chronicles Series #1)
Publishers Weekly
Spotswood’s debut, first in the Cahill Witch Chronicles, is set in an alternate New England circa 1896. The Brotherhood has established a Christian dictatorship by overthrowing a governing caste of witches, and any hint of the arcane is now reason enough to sentence a woman to an asylum or hard labor. Girls must marry or go into the convent by their 17th birthday, and Cate Cahill’s moment of truth is fast approaching. Cate, like her two sisters, is a secret witch, the legacy of a mother who died young trying to produce a male heir. Cate is responsible for protecting her family, a responsibility that does not square with marrying the tempting and handsome Paul McLeod. Her dilemma worsens when an eagle-eyed governess takes up residence, and a mysterious note arrives, urging Cate to seek her mother’s diary. Spotswood falls prey to occasional pedantic exposition, and casting Christians as fascistic chauvinists is nothing new. The pace doesn’t lag, however, and the fate of the Cahill sisters inspires genuine dread by the time the cliffhanger ending arrives. Ages 12–up.
RT BOOK REVIEW BORN WICKED.
 Born Wicked (The Cahill Witch Chronicles Series #1)
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BORN WICKED by Jessica Spotswood Genre: Young Adult, Paranormal, Historical
We need more paranormals with good, old-fashioned New England witches — Born Wicked is exactly that. It’s a quick, romantic read set in an alternate version of puritanical Maine. The feminist undertones, the descriptions of sumptuous dresses, the dangerous, secretive magic wielding: Born Wicked is like a sizzling, more fun version of The Witch of Blackbird Pond. The protagonist falls prey to one of the pitfalls of historical fiction — her modern sensibilities come off a bit anachronistic — and is prissy bordering on unlikable, but the setting and premise are strong enough to make the choice of narrator forgivable. Born Wicked imagines a Puritan colony in which witches really exist. Having once been in power, female witches have been massacred to near extinction, and all women — magical and otherwise — are treated as weak-willed, second-class citizens, lorded over by the priests of the Brotherhood. Cate Cahill and her sisters, all three of them witches, are forced to practice their magic in secret. But they aren’t the only ones keeping secrets, and when Cate learns of a prophecy perhaps involving she and her sisters, she finds they’re in danger. (PUTNAM, Feb., 336 pp., $17.99, ISBN: 9780399257452, HC, 12 & Up) Reviewed By: Ellen Parsons |
RT Rating
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