Her mother’s union with an outsider of a different race cast her once-proud family into disgrace, so Immanuelle does her best to worship the Father, follow Holy Protocol, and lead a life of submission, devotion, and absolute conformity, like all the other women in the settlement.īut a mishap lures her into the forbidden Darkwood surrounding Bethel, where the first prophet once chased and killed four powerful witches. In the lands of Bethel, where the Prophet’s word is law, Immanuelle Moore’s very existence is blasphemy.
Trigger Warnings: misogyny, misogynistic slurs, branding, racism, persecution, pedophilia, coercive control, death. Thanks to Bantam Press for the review copy of this book, this hasn’t impacted my honest review. The Year of the Witching sounded so good that I ordered the hardback before I’d even read my review copy – and I’m glad I did, because this gorgeous hardback belongs on my shelves.
This book gave me a similar emotional response as The Grace Year, which was one of my top books of 2019. If I made a shelf of ‘books that make me want to burn the world down and rebuild from the ashes’, this would be first on the shelf – and it would be in good company. She was their curse made flesh, and everything – the blood and the blight, the darkness and slaughter to come – it was all within her.
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