Basically, if there is a witch, I want to read it. Review: I want to thank NetGalley for providing me with an eARC of this book!Īs I’ve made abundantly clear on this blog numerous times, I am a huge fan of witches and witchcraft in my stories. The collective strength of women working together-magically or mundanely–has long frightened society, to the point that women’s rights are challenged, legislated against, and denied all over the world. Toil & Trouble delves deep into the truly diverse mythology of witchcraft from many cultures and feminist points of view, to create modern and unique tales of witchery that have yet to be explored. Somewhere in the present, a teen girl just wants to kiss a boy without causing a hurricane.įrom good witches to bad witches, to witches who are a bit of both, this is an anthology of diverse witchy tales from a collection of diverse, feminist authors. In a desolate past, three orphaned sisters prophesize for a murderous king. In a terrifying future, women are captured by a cabal of men crying witchcraft and the one true witch among them must fight to free them all. A witch’s healing hands begin to take life instead of giving it when she ignores her attraction to a fellow witch. History tells us women accused of witchcraft were often outsiders: educated, independent, unmarried, unwilling to fall in line with traditional societal expectations.Ī bruja’s traditional love spell has unexpected results. Where Did I Get This Book: I received an ARC from NetGalley.īook Description: A young adult fiction anthology of 15 stories featuring contemporary, historical, and futuristic stories featuring witchy heroines who are diverse in race, class, sexuality, religion, geography, and era. Publishing Info: Harlequin Teen, August 2018 Book: “Toil and Trouble: 15 Tales of Women and Witchcraft” by Tess Sharpe (Ed.), and Jessica Spotswood (Ed.)

Toil & Trouble by Jessica Spotswood