A little while back, I read The Princess Saves Herself in This One by Amanda Lovelace, and the following day, I bought the second book, The Witch Doesn’t Burn in This One. They are both parts of the “women are some sort of magic” series, and they live up to that title.
Just like The Princess, The Witch comes with a long list of trigger warnings that truly should be heeded. While they are stressful and long, if you don’t read them, you may find yourself in a bad situation while reading these books, and that is not worth the pain.
Also like The Princess, this book is of poetry. But there is a key difference; a set storyline at the beginning of each section. While The Princess focused on our author’s life as the storyline, in The Witch, we read a bit about the Salem Witch Trials at the beginning of each part. It is an interesting way to break up the poetry; half page blocks of text that continue the story, while not interrupting the poetry too much.
These poems are full of female empowerment and using the flames that are aimed at us against our aggressors. There is political talk, and discussion about abuse, but the whole of this book is about reclaiming that which has been assumed not yours and owning your self. I think that while both of these books hit some difficult topics, they’re both so important for women to read.
I find that both of these books took a lot out of me. The trigger warnings really are there for a reason, but the encouragement of the poems to own myself and not let others assume they can have what they want of me (along with a conversation about spending energy wisely with my boyfriend) helped me to continue reading. I love these books, and genuinely hope that Lovelace has more to share with the world.
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