Ultimate Popsugar Reading Challenge discussion

This discussion thread is to mark your completion of the October challenge to fulfill prompt #16 A book about witches. “Spooktober”/Halloween

Please include the following:

Title:
Author:
Would you recommend this book?

Title: The Ex Hex

Author: Erin Sterling

Would you recommend this book? Not particularly, no. I read this back before the group read was chosen for October. It started off really fun, and I was enjoying it, but then everyone got hit with a secondary curse of idiocy apparently, because they all did the absolute dumbest thing. Theoretically they were trying to solve the curse and fix the ley lines, but it seemed like they were doing everything BUT trying to solve the curse.

Title: The Wee Free Men

Would you recommend this book? Yes

Title: The Winter of the Witch
Author: Katherine Arden
Would you recommend this book? Yes, but only if you've read the first two books in the trilogy (which were also incredible). Any of this series would work for this prompt, I just spread all three out around the challenge. :) This first one could stand alone, though.

Title: Rosemary's Baby
Author: Ira Levin
Would you recommend this book? Yes! I wasn't in the mood for fantasy witches and having sold books on the Craft and Wicca starting back in 1981, I was ready for something different.
One of my favorite movies, which is SUPER faithful to the book - and still, the book has layers and clues and symbolism that I enjoyed for the first time.

Would work for social horror too. By the writer whom Stephen King calls " a Swiss watchmaker" in comparison to other horror writers -- including himself.

Title: Kingdom of the Wicked
Author: Kerri Maniscalco
Recommend? Yes, I loved this and read it more than once this year. It's a gothic fantasy romance for older ya and up age group. This also works well for the BookTok prompt.

Title: Kingdom of the Wicked
Author: Kerri Maniscalco
Recommend? Yes, I loved this and read it more than once this year. It's a gothic fantasy romance for older ya and up age group. This also works well for the BookTok prompt.

Title: Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
Author: Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman
Recommend? Kinda of a let down actually. Maybe I would feel differently if I hadn’t seen the show first. They really improved upon it with the show. Cut out the parts that dragged and added some great scenes. I felt the same way when I read Stardust too.

Title: The Ex Hex
Author: Erin Sterling
Recommend: Yes. Not the greatest novel, but very entertaining and I loved the ending.

Title: Shadow of Night (book two in the All Souls series)
Author: Deborah Harkness
Recommend? Yes. I do suggest reading the series in order, though, or you will definitely be lost.

Nadine in NY wrote: "Title: The Ex Hex

Author: Erin Sterling

Would you recommend this book? Not particularly, no.... Theoretically they were trying to solve the curse and fix the ley lines, but it seemed like they were doing everything BUT trying to solve the curse."

LOL. I remember thinking this at one point too. Well most of the middle really.

Title: Magic Lessons
Author: Alice Hoffman
Recommend? Yes. Great Origin Story. But like with all her novels I feel like you need to have time and a dedication to it because they can take a while to get thru; there's just so much in them.

Title: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Author: L. Frank Baum

Would you recommend this book? Definitely, it's a classic. It wasn't about witches as much as the movie portrayed, though.