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cosettepontmercys · 2 years

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you deserve a better world than this one, lena. but i’d walk to the ends of it with you, barbed wire and all.

happy birthday, @rvebennett 🤍

#the witch haven #twhedit #litedit #yalitedit #storyseekers #booksocietynet #userbie #usermansi #userjamie #bookedit #yalit #sasha peyton smith #post: mine #mine: edit #post: literature #lit: the witch haven #i havent been on tumblr in so long idk who to tag

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aaronstveit · 2 years

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Every witch who ever burned was once a girl just like you, one who thought she could change the world.

THE WITCH HAVEN by SASHA PEYTON SMITH

#the witch haven #twh #twhedit #litedit #lit #booksociety #storyseekers #userbie #usercossette #sasha peyton smith #yalitedit #**#mine.graphic #graphic

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bookishlyvintage · 6 months

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meet my 100th read this year: The Witch Hunt (The Witch Haven #2)

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thewriteadviceforwriters · 1 year

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“If thousands of years of history have taught us one thing, it is that the world is not kind to women who possess power” -Sasha Peyton Smith The Witch Haven

#sasha peyton smith #on writing #book quote #beautiful quote #the witch haven #witchcore #little witch academia #witchblr

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lifblogs · 2 years

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Finished reading The Witch Haven by Sasha Peyton Smith last night! If anyone wants to read a really effed up witch story that takes place in New York City in 1911, this is the story for you.

#the witch haven #sasha peyton smith #reading #books

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the-dust-jacket · 2 years

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#The Witch Haven #Born Wicked #A Great and Terrible Beauty #Libba Bray #Sasha Peyton Smith #Jessica Spotswood #Love That? Read This!

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lottiesoka · 7 days

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Some Lena Jamison sketches from Sasha Peyton Smith’s the Witch Haven duology, since she’s my favorite and deserves the whole wide world.

#Lena Jamison #the witch haven #the witch hunt #sasha peyton smith #my art

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urfriendash · 8 months

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2023 genre bingo update #1

so as of august 27th i have done 12/16 challenges! note that for many of these categories i’ve read more than one for the genre; i’ve just chosen a random book to put there!

fantasy: the witch haven by sasha peyton smith (1 ⭐️)

thriller: five survive by holly jackson (3 ⭐️)

contemporary fiction: the summer of broken rules by k.l walther (3 ⭐️)

non fiction: have i told you this already?: stories i don’t wanna forget to remember by lauren graham (4 ⭐️)

horror: the lost by natasha preston (1 ⭐️)

classics: of mice and men by john steinback (4 ⭐️)

lgbtq+: missing dead girls by sara walters (4 ⭐️)

romance: emergency contact by mary h.k choi (1 ⭐️)

graphic novel: heartstopper by alice oseman (4 ⭐️)

short story: kill joy by holly jackson (4 ⭐️)

mystery: we were liars by e. lockhart (3 ⭐️)

children’s literature: beyoncé: a little golden book biography by lavaille lavette (4 ⭐️) (does this count…?)

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biblionerdreflections · 1 year

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Mini Review - The Witch Hunt

✨New Book Review✨ Today I'm reviewing THE WITCH HUNT by Sasha Peyton Smith. "This book was once again a middle of the road story for me, just like its predecessor. It was okay, but the potential for it to be great was really squandered." 3⭐ #booktwt

Hello, everyone! Today I’m sharing my review of The Witch Hunt by Sasha Peyton Smith, the sequel to last year’s The Witch Haven. (more…)

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#Book #Book blogger #Books #Reading #Review #Sasha Peyton Smith #The Witch Haven #The Witch Hunt

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asecretworldforme-shush · 2 years

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#the witch haven #sasha peyton smith

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mistwraiths · 2 years

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2 stars

You know it's never good when your only favorite moments of a book is one sentence in the first page, a throwaway reference to WW1 coming up, and then the part where a character calls out the main character. I wanted to like this book badly from the beginning. It has things I like! Historical fiction, a murder mystery, witches, magic, a magical school, a looming magical war. It's very sad when none of those things make this book easier to read and enjoy.

This book started off really quickly, however I absolutely could have gone without the attempted sexual assault on page nine. I get her needing a trauma to jumpstart her magic but it's 2022!!!! I think this was published in 2021 or earlier but that's no excuse, it's so unnecessary. This did sour me right off the bat but I was determined to continue on. Frances seemed capable and smart, the promise of all those things I looked forward to.

Once we get to the school, the book stops being interesting and starts a very long and boring slog to the end. I knew I wasn't enjoying it by page 100 but I was at work and I pushed to finish. I should have just DNF'd.

First off, the magical school was a big let down. Not only was almost every teacher insufferable but they only taught girls how to be safe by being small. They only taught girls how to do small household magic. We don't even really get a sense of HOW magic works and there's only a brief mention of how there might be different types of magic like Finders and Clairvoyants, but we don't get go into depth. Also, you can move things with your mind or spells, and you DON'T teach women how to protect themselves??? I get the part where they're like men don't like women with power but damn. Also, I know students eventually leave once they master control or whatever, but why do some who leave die or go mad? Why does magic eat at you if you don't use it? What does it mean when the Headmistress said magic needs to connect? Also, the school just turning a blind eye to those that do go crazy and also giving students stipends to ensure obedience is pretty awful. Why is the magic school just so awful?

I really hated Frances. It felt like the first few pages we get to glimpse of Frances and the one for the rest of the series are two different people. She's the typical make bad decisions, complain, and is also so powerful wow YA MC. She's constantly asking pretty personal and even rude questions to people. Treats her friends like people she can use instead of getting to know about them. Everything you learn about Lena is like usually forced by a situation, there's no friends telling each other things about themselves to be close. She doesn't act like a friend either really, she's constantly like surprised by anything she learns by the girls in her classes. The moment someone doesn't immediately agree or line up for whatever decision she's decided, she gets angry and does it regardless. She constantly acts like she doesn't trust anyone. Only her feelings, what she wants, matters and its prevalent throughout the story.

I can get behind wanting to solve her brother's murder. I can even get behind her being angry with the school, Haxahaven, for trying to keep the girls small and only teaching them to be safe and use practical household magic. Her thirst for knowledge or power could be fine but it ultimately hinges on her one goal to see her brother again. Like, she doesn't want to learn spells, she wants to do the Resurrection spell only and gets annoyed constantly when people pump the brakes. Remember me commenting how she doesn't trust anyone? There is one person she somehow trusts implicitly despite only meeting him once???? But the boy she's known practically forever, the friend who was also likely grieving his friend both in dead and separation, the one in college who probably couldn't do much, she's mad at because I guess how dare he live his life? She can be mad he kinda disappeared but his explanation is a perfectly valid one.

The guy she trusts without a doubt for like 90% of the book is Finn and he's such an obvious walking red flag it's almost funny. Almost. Instead, I was mostly irritated because all it would have taken is one brain cell. How utterly convenient on the NIGHT you meet an Irish boy you come across a magic spell book in GAELIC. Like hello????? He's literally too conveniently placed in the story. Not to mention, he never does magic in the girls' presence. Also, when Frances ends up in a fighting ring (don't ask), he's mysteriously unable to help her or try to get to her. Oliver, who is injured and has no magic, does more. Finn says he's trying to find evidence that the Sons might be in on the killings and then wants her to join the Sons after she almost got beat up? Huh?? He also straight up tells her he's been dream stalking her she was like a young girl. Yikes.

And then, when they finally get to do the Resurrection spell and it doesn't work, Finn is like wait maybe this spell will help, but Finn supposedly never had the book ever so how would he know? But Frances naturally trusts him of course and that spectacularly backfires.

I didn't really get so much a magical war as much as two heads who hate each other and have a tenuous treaty. And that lasts all of a few pages. I guess the Sons were hiding factory accidents as murders because money/power/etc. And we learn the true murderer of Frances's brother is Finn. Shocker. He did it for her. For the them. Because he didn't love her like Finn did, which is what he actually says and I should HOPE not. Then, Finn goes Super Evil by killing tons of people and nonmagical people because they (Frances and him) should rule the world. And sends these boys to bully and kill the school girls and other people too. That's not really a war either. Also like... bro where did all the adults go? The only two adult characters that weren't insufferable were gone getting the little ones out but all the other teachers???? Gone.

Despite all that, she somehow still has feelings for him when he killed her brother, other people, stole her magic, and was pretty fine killing all her friends too. And somehow all the people who she never cared about trust her to save them and give her their magic to use. I don't know how she stops Finn. How did the dagger stop his magic? How even did it happen? I don't know!

I really didn't like that all this learning how to do powerful magic was all done by Finn helping the girls out because he's so knowledgeable, etc. There's a very good moment when thirteen girls go out and practice spells in the forest clearing. They're being silly and trying magic, and it's a very small moment of true camaraderie (Frances being all "with girls I barely know" and a little sour they're not doing important big magic). I would have liked MORE of that. The only reasons Maxine and Lena come along and learn beside her is they are better friends than Frances and Maxine kept the book out of Frances' clutches and Lena is clairvoyant.

I know this review is constantly everywhere and I know this isn't a bad book. But it was a major disappointment for me.

#steph's book review #steph reads #book review #the witch haven #sasha peyton smith

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deadxclown · 1 year

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🤎 Cozy 🤎

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bookishlyvintage · 6 months

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"Art so does love to punish women who dare rise above their station. I suppose the world does too."

The Witch Hunt (The Witch Haven #2) by Sasha Peyton Smith [x]

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dreamcusp · 2 years

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jewelery by fireflypath

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redgemwink · 1 year

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THIS IS MY FAVORITE DIALOGUE YET DSFKDSFK

My witch wife!

#sun haven #catherine #she's so dorky i love her #mwah mwah mwah millions of kisses for my witch wife

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undercoverossifrage · 1 month

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Endless Summer

I don't do that much art for narnia but Endless Summer by the Gray Havens puts me in the mind for it! Its such a beautiful tune and it reminds me of the contrast between the Endless winter of the white witch and the Endless summer of Aslan's County.

#narnia #aslan #the white witch #the lion the witch and the wardrobe #edmund pevensie #lucy pevensie #the gray havens #endless summer #The gray havens music

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