Bad Witch Burning by Jessica LewisMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
For fans of Lovecraft Country and Candyman comes a witchy story full of Black girl magic as one girl's dark ability to summon the dead offers her a chance at a new life, while revealing to her an even darker future.
Katrell can talk to the dead. And she wishes it made more money. She's been able to support her unemployed mother--and Mom's deadbeat-boyfriend-of-the-week--so far, but it isn't enough. Money's still tight, and to complicate things, Katrell has started to draw attention. Not from this world--from beyond. And it comes with a warning: STOP or there will be consequences.
Katrell is willing to call the ghosts on their bluff; she has no choice. What do ghosts know of having sleep for dinner? But when her next summoning accidentally raises someone from the dead, Katrell realizes that a live body is worth a lot more than a dead apparition. And, warning or not, she has no intention of letting this lucrative new business go.
Only magic isn't free, and dark forces are coming to collect. Now Katrell faces a choice: resign herself to poverty, or confront the darkness before it's too late.
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This has to be one of the most emotional books I've ever read. There's a lot packed in here. Child abuse, physical abuse, domestic abuse, emotional manipulation, threat, danger. And there's the murder of a dog. Honestly, that bit really got to me and I just was in tears when that happened. That's one of the parts that stands out most to me. -- and then, of course, Katrell can raise the dead through writing letters, so we get Conrad returning. Just as we get multiple people returning, people that Katrell is paid to bring back. And it's all just...creepy. Such great horror vibes. We have Katrell's life unravelling more and more, her losing control of her magic/powers, and all this amid a serious child protection storyline as she's not being looked after.
I listened to the audio book of this, and the narrator is so good too.
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This has to be one of the most emotional books I've ever read. There's a lot packed in here. Child abuse, physical abuse, domestic abuse, emotional manipulation, threat, danger. And there's the murder of a dog. Honestly, that bit really got to me and I just was in tears when that happened. That's one of the parts that stands out most to me. -- and then, of course, Katrell can raise the dead through writing letters, so we get Conrad returning. Just as we get multiple people returning, people that Katrell is paid to bring back. And it's all just...creepy. Such great horror vibes. We have Katrell's life unravelling more and more, her losing control of her magic/powers, and all this amid a serious child protection storyline as she's not being looked after.
I listened to the audio book of this, and the narrator is so good too.
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