{"id":9923,"date":"2018-11-19T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-19T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=9923"},"modified":"2018-11-16T12:24:02","modified_gmt":"2018-11-16T18:24:02","slug":"women-witchcraft-tales-of-toil-trouble-edited-by-jessica-spotswood-tess-sharpe-book-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=9923","title":{"rendered":"Women, witchcraft, tales of TOIL & TROUBLE, edited by Jessica Spotswood & Tess Sharpe (book review)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"book“All witches<\/a> are old” – no.
\n“and evil” – not necessarily.
\n“and far away from here” = nope!<\/p>\n

The stories in this teen-witch-centered anthology run from today to far-yesterday, from just around the corner to not-quite-sure-where, with love and pain and healing throughout. <\/p>\n

Do you use the abilities that you’ve been entrusted with?
\n**kmm<\/p>\n

Book info<\/strong>:\u00a0Toil & Trouble: 15 Tales of Women & Witchcraft \/ edited by Jessica Spotswood & Tess Sharpe. Harlequin Teen, 2018. [editor site<\/a>]\u00a0[editor site<\/a>] [publisher site<\/a>]\u00a0 Review copy and cover image courtesy of the publisher.<\/p>\n

My book talk<\/strong>: If one only had the power to create inspiration where none exists, to release the dead from their last earthly bond, to cast a spell to bring love, peace, vengeance – these young women do!<\/p>\n

“The Gherin Girls” channel their magic into food and plants, but it’s harder work to heal your own heart.<\/p>\n

How can “The Well Witch” escape desperadoes invading her high desert homestead far from the river?<\/p>\n

Releasing souls after their “Death in the Sawtooths” is Mattie’s job, but now she must stop whoever is capturing souls against their will by perverting The Lady’s powers.<\/p>\n

Los Angeles today with skateboarders, a difficult birth in 1650 New England, the ones ever-waiting by a woodland campfire for another girl to join them – then and now, the witches are.<\/p>\n

Moving far beyond the cliche of witch equals black-hatted, cackling old crone, this short story collection by 15 authors features many different young women who eagerly or reluctantly use the magic abilities they’ve been gifted. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“All witches are old” – no. “and evil” – not necessarily. “and far away from here” = nope! The stories in this teen-witch-centered anthology run from today to far-yesterday, from just around the corner to not-quite-sure-where, with love and pain and healing throughout. Do you use the abilities that you’ve been entrusted with? **kmm Book […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9992,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[237,19,50,30,41],"tags":[90,22,7,20,5,70,37,16,18,44,43,39,49,184,15,21,57,35,33,3,6,8,78],"class_list":["post-9923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diverse-books","category-fiction","category-historical","category-legends","category-paranormal","tag-abandonment","tag-behavior","tag-beliefs","tag-conflict","tag-coping","tag-crime","tag-death","tag-determination","tag-family","tag-friendship","tag-growing-up","tag-love","tag-memories","tag-mothers","tag-relationships","tag-self-image","tag-sisters","tag-surprises","tag-survival","tag-teens","tag-travel","tag-us-author","tag-witches"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Toil-Trouble.jpg?fit=257%2C389&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9923"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10000,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9923\/revisions\/10000"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}