I appreciated the political commentary and satire. I’m now wondering if I wasn’t in the right frame of mind for this read. I was keen to find out how a story with a witch who turns a detestable coworker into a cat would play out. Stan, when he’s not scrounging up fish tacos and beer, is on a treasure hunt. There’s nougat, which is nice, but there’s also a water shortage, which isn’t.Įleanor has been tasked with finding a missing witch.
Now it has animatronic presidential heads and people are whisked off in vans, presumably never to be seen again. This means she’s stuck living with said cat, whose metamorphosis didn’t magically improve his personality.Įleanor and Stan are now in Liberty, which once upon a time was Texas.
It doesn’t matter that her reasons were valid she behaved in a manner most uncovenly and now she’s living with the consequences. Eleanor has no time for Stan and his shenanigans, because she finds herself helping another coven locate a missing witch which she thinks is mysteriously linked to the shortage of water in Liberty.Eleanor was in the process of learning witchcraft when she turned her coworker into a cat. A talking cat who loves craft beers, picket lines, and duping and ‘shooting’ people. But being a white witch is not as easy as they portray it in the books, and she’s already been placed under ‘house arrest’ with a letch named Stan, a co-worker who wronged her in the past and now exists in the form of a cat. This terrifying (and yet somehow vaguely familiar) terrain is explored via Eleanor – a young woman eagerly learning about the gifts of her magic through the support of her coven.
In this society, paranoia is well-suited because eyes and ears are all around, and they are judging. In the state of Liberty, water is rationed at alarming prices, free speech is hardly without a cost, and Texas has just declared itself its own country. A genre-blending story of modern witchcraft, a police state and WTF characters, for fans of Alice Hoffman and Madeline Miller.
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