"An especially slow-burn romance, as Tamsin’s curse prevents her from feeling, but the buildup allows for deeper character development and a very satisfying conclusion. Paperback Published 1 June 2022 384 pages
Of course, love bargains are a tricky thing, and these two have a long, perilous journey ahead of them-that is, if they don’t kill each other first. To save him, Wren proposes a bargain: if Tamsin will help her catch the dark witch responsible for creating the plague, then Wren will give Tamsin her love for her father. When a magical plague ravages the queendom, Wren’s father falls victim. Sources are required to train with the Coven as soon as they discover their abilities, but Wren-the only caretaker to her ailing father-has spent her life hiding her secret. Wren is a source-a rare kind of person who is made of magic, despite being unable to use it herself.
The only way she can get those feelings back-even for just a little while-is to steal love from others. But after committing the worst magical sin, she’s exiled by the ruling Coven and cursed with the inability to love. Tamsin is the most powerful witch of her generation. If the religious and social struggles of seventeenth-century Scotland are of interest to you, this may be up your alley.In this charming debut fantasy perfect for fans of Sorcery of Thorns and Girls of Paper and Fire, a witch cursed to never love meets a girl hiding her own dangerous magic, and the two strike a dangerous bargain to save their queendom. Perhaps Kilgore’s attention to historical detail got the better of the plot there is so much going on that it is often difficult to feel anything for the characters. When she meets local cunning woman (i.e., witch) Isabel Gowdie, a different way opens to Margaret and she must decide if the path of Christian righteousness she has been taught all her life is all that matters to her.īeautiful descriptions of the fairy world into which Gowdie travels and the countryside the novel is set in serve as backdrops to far too much going on in the book. Her family has means, she is tutored and churched, but she is disenchanted with the world she knows. Margaret Hay is in the prime of her beauty and imagination as a teenage girl roaming the Scottish Highlands. As the cover states, Nancy Hayes Kilgore’s latest novel, Bitter Magic, is “inspired by the true story of a confessed witch,” although the promise inherent in that line isn’t fully delivered in the book.
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