Can’t-Wait Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted over at Wishful Endings to spotlight and discuss the books we’re excited about and have yet to read. Generally they’re books that have yet to be released, but not necessarily. It’s based on Waiting on Wednesday, which was originally hosted at Breaking the Spine.
My pick for this week is an urban fantasy about witchcraft, women’s magic, and wild sisters that merges women’s battle for equality with twisted fairy tales…

Title: The Once and Future Witches
Author: Alix E. Harrow
Publisher: Redhook
Publication Date: Oct. 13 2020
Genres: Urban fantasy
Shelves: Female-author, Female-fronted
In the late 1800s, three sisters use witchcraft to change the course of history in a Hugo award-winning author’s powerful novel of magic amid the suffragette movement.
In 1893, there’s no such thing as witches. There used to be, in the wild, dark days before the burnings began, but now witching is nothing but tidy charms and nursery rhymes. If the modern woman wants any measure of power, she must find it at the ballot box.
But when the Eastwood sisters — James Juniper, Agnes Amaranth, and Beatrice Belladonna — join the suffragists of New Salem, they begin to pursue the forgotten words and ways that might turn the women’s movement into the witch’s movement. Stalked by shadows and sickness, hunted by forces who will not suffer a witch to vote — and perhaps not even to live — the sisters will need to delve into the oldest magics, draw new alliances, and heal the bond between them if they want to survive.
There’s no such thing as witches. But there will be.
It has such a lovely cover. xx
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I’ve already been reading rave reviews, so I’m extremely excited about this too😁
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Can’t wait for this either! The cover’s gorgeous too 🙂
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I’m also really excited for this one!
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Yes! I’m also waiitng for this one! It looks a wonderful premise and that cover is gorgeous:))
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