Friday, March 17, 2023

2023 book 50

 Emilia Hart's Weyward

This was… fine. It’s the story of three women from a family of women with a strong connection to nature—one in 2019, fleeing an abusive husband; one, a teenager in the 1940s, who wants to study insects; and one, in the 1600s, on trial for witchcraft. It was engaging enough that I kept reading, but it tended toward melodrama, especially in the 2019 story. Really hammering those points home. Content warnings for domestic abuse and rape. B.

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