Just not for me

Tried a few times to get into it and never made it past the first quarter. Confusing, slowish story with lots of side stuff going on. Made me quite frustrated. To be fair to it though, it's not one of my usual genres.

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Atmospheric and Fascinating

Such a unique voice! Read by the author and like a long poem. The kind of book that paints pictures in ypur mind

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Mesmerising

I adored this book. The story itself is rich, with such evocative and sumptuous language, giving length and breadth and depth to its message. I wept at this frank and tender tale, in what felt like a retelling of many an experience from times gone by, the whisper of their effect still lingering on in current times.

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Now She is a Real Witch

I loved this book. A fairytale about witches in a land like our land many years ago, yet not. A girl who is a witch but doesn't know it. A woman who rescues her, helps her and also leads her into danger. This is gritty witchcraft. Not 'good' or 'bad' witches, not white and black magic, but women using all the magic they can in order to survive. And using witchery for the most heady, righteous revenge. There is also a thread in this story about the comfortable domestic world in contrast to the wild. For once here is an author whose narration is utterly perfect. There are so many books with Witch in the title, yet so few of them challenge us with what that might really mean. As much of the world remains dangerous and oppressive of women, and as much of the West now challenges feminism and the hard won rights of women - we need to find our power wherever we can. And we need books that empower us.

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Now She is Witch

I listened to Now She is Witch on audible with the author Kisty Logan narrating and I enjoyed it very much. Kirsty's voice is mellow and lamenting in places, which made the story become even more believable in that moment.

Lux is a vulnerable young woman retruning to her home to find her mother dead and the building burnt and broken. Lux is accompanied by Else, from where she came is a mystery but she protects takes and guides her, but she wants something in return - Revenge.

This is novel about women, the strength they posess even when they feel powerless. It is about relationships that are trabsient but also everlasting.

I really enjoyed this book and I found listening to it a positive way to be absorbed just as a book holds you and draws you in.
I would definately recommend it.

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A strange mix

Beautiful descriptions from the start and a nice change that it’s read by the author themselves so you hear it read as it’s intended to be heard but it’s a bit of a strange mix of a story that you never quite know if Lux is a loony or if Else is actually real or if she is real and she’s the loony or what the hell is happening, it’s so full of absolutely stunning descriptions and it’s honestly some of the most beautiful descriptions of things I’ve ever heard but it does become a bit much after a while and has a stark contrast with f bombs and c bombs that are probably an apt way of describing things for the time this is meant to be set in but are so stark next to the beautiful descriptions of things and you never quite know what’s being truly got at or what the whole point of it all is, why she went there in the first place and why she was put in the bath by the lady etc it’s all a bit of a strange journey to not much conclusion really but honestly some of those descriptions are utterly stunning!

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Spellbinding and necessary

I normally listen to audiobooks when I do tasks that don’t need much thought and this book was hard to continue working while listening to. Lux is an immersive and deeply rich protagonist that continues to challenge the world around her and what being a witch really means. The tangents to the narration could get a bit tricky to follow while I multitasked but it was so deeply relatable also. Combining the traditional witch views held by society with Lux’s monologue was expertly written and the whole book left me guessing.

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Stunning

It’s rare I think an author should narrate their own books but this was so very beautifully written and read.

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Mixed Feelings

I do think excellent narration can elevate a story and although the author did quite well here, an experienced actor would have turned it into a great listen. There were lots of this that blurred into one, maybe as the author didn’t really attempt to do different voices, but there were many times I had to go back and re-listen to find out who was talking.

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Confusing and headache inducing.

This was not for me. I thought it would be, it probably would be, in written form but, I couldn’t listen to the narration for one moment more. There are parts that really have you there, in the moment, then there’s the rest. I can still here the onslaught of monologue that goes faster and faster like a spinning top until it’s you that wants to fall down. Way too much

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