Half-Witch
May 4, 2021 1:43 PM - by Schoffstall, John - Subscribe
A YA medieval fantasy featuring an unusual and transformative friendship between a whip smart and deeply religious young girl and a local witch. Super weird, transporting, beautiful.
Just sat down and read it cover to cover over two days based on the description here. Totally fantastic, I’ll be thinking about it for a long time. I think this is the only book I’ve read besides the His Dark Materials trilogy that places Christian theology and magic/fantasy elements all together and treats them all as real and solid things. Really cool to see a take on that that isn’t Pullman’s. Really cool to see a male author expressing such nuanced understanding of adolescent female sexuality (at least, as I experienced it...)
Thanks a million for the rec, latkes!
posted by cabbage raccoon at 2:24 PM on May 8, 2021 [2 favorites]
Thanks a million for the rec, latkes!
posted by cabbage raccoon at 2:24 PM on May 8, 2021 [2 favorites]
Read it today - very good stuff! Thanks for the recommendation!
posted by prefpara at 4:12 PM on May 9, 2021 [1 favorite]
posted by prefpara at 4:12 PM on May 9, 2021 [1 favorite]
Thanks for recommending this! What an unusual book. I really enjoyed it.
posted by potrzebie at 4:57 PM on May 13, 2021 [1 favorite]
posted by potrzebie at 4:57 PM on May 13, 2021 [1 favorite]
Wow, this was fantastic! Whimsical, inventive, irreverent -- and sometimes surprisingly reverent.
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