WITCH WANTED? Well guys, I think we found her.
This is a story of a mismatch group of people who come together to do the seemingly impossible to help protect their family. And while Mika Moon hasn’t ever known what family really feels like, she’s about to get thrown in at the deep end. Providing she’s passes her two week probationary period that is.
There are two main reason I fell in love with this book (and about 3000 smaller ones). Firstly, the witchy world Sangu Mandanna created was like nothing I had read before. Witches are only allowed to meet in small groups on the third Thursday of every third month to avoid their magic attracting too much attention. Magic that floats like golden pixie dust around each and every one of them and is desperate to be used (and misused). So, when Mika Moon answers a rather irregular DM and finds herself at the steps of Nowhere House, with three little witches behind its gates, all bets are off.
Secondly was Terracotta. All three girls were beautifully and intelligently written, but there is something about Terracotta that had me laughing out loud. Her morbid sense of humour, child like vulnerability and downright stubbornness was a pleasure to read. Somewhere between The Worst Witch’s Mildred Hubble and Wednesday Adams.
There is something magical about this book that goes beyond its subject matter. It’s like a warm hug that makes you feel like you’re home and I can’t wait to return home very soon when I inevitably reread “The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches”. If you haven’t already, I implore you to read this book… if for no other reason than to give me someone else to talk all things Mika Moon with!
Thank you to NetGalley and Hodder & Stoughton for allowing me to read this title. While I was given this book the views in this review are my own and not influenced by anyone else
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