The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches

Paperback, 336 pages

Published Aug. 22, 2022 by Berkley.

ISBN:
978-0-593-43935-7
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As one of the few witches in Britain, Mika Moon knows she has to hide her magic, keep her head down, and stay away from other witches so their powers don’t mingle and draw attention. And as an orphan who lost her parents at a young age and was raised by strangers, she’s used to being alone and she follows the rules...with one exception: an online account, where she posts videos "pretending" to be a witch. She thinks no one will take it seriously.

But someone does. An unexpected message arrives, begging her to travel to the remote and mysterious Nowhere House to teach three young witches how to control their magic. It breaks all of the rules, but Mika goes anyway, and is immediately tangled up in the lives and secrets of not only her three charges, but also an absent archaeologist, a retired actor, two long-suffering caretakers, …

2 editions

Cozy with weak points

Overall, I liked the cozyness of the story, and Samara MacLaren's voice was great to listen to. I liked the world building, the idea that all witches are orphans and have to be alone, more or less, and the way the magic itself works. I also didn't see the main twist coming, at all. The second one was easy to see, though. What I didn't like was the sex scene. For one thing, it wasn't well told. For another, it always irritates me when the characters in a story go straight from nothing to sex without once talking about protection, be it from pregnancy or STDs. I'm pretty sure both are a possibility in this book's world and should be addressed no matter how badly desire suddenly struck the people involved.

i love this book

This is one of the few books I've read that makes me long so powerfully to live in its world (let's be honest, to be the main character.)

The story is warm and loving, the writing lively and interesting. I already miss reading this book, and I wish I could have never left.