This month’s selected book for the book club I am involved with is Weyward by Emilia Hart. My good friend, Kaiden, recommended it for this round, and because I absolutely trust her taste in books, I figured it would be a decent read at the least.
So far, I am tremendously enjoying this book. I think Hart’s choice to include the narratives of three main female characters (Kate, Violet and Altha) is brilliantly done and not at all confusing or hard to follow, which often happens when there is more than one protagonist in a story. Each of their perspectives is clear, and not once have I found myself struggling to recall whose narrative it is that I am reading at any given point throughout the book.
Weyward tells the story of Kate, Violet and Altha – three very different women who all, unbeknownst to them, share a connection in the context of their heritage and the Weyward surname. It is revealed in all three perspectives, although mainly in Altha’s, that the Weyward women, throughout history, have been strongly associated with witchcraft.
Altha’s story takes place a very long time ago, back when women were arrested for possessing the traitorous ‘witches mark,’ or ‘witches teat,’ which was nothing more than a damn birthmark and were burned at the stake as a result. Violet’s story takes place somewhere in between Altha’s and Kate’s, roughly around the 1940s, and Kate’s narrative occurs in the present-day tense.
Without spoiling anything for those of you who might like to read this text, the roots all of these women have in witchcraft are beginning to blend together, tying the three women together despite them never knowing one another personally. They’re aware of the Weyward name, but can’t seem to determine much else about their heritage, aside from a fascination with insects and animals and a strong bond with a spotted crow.
This book is absolutely a read, and not a rid.
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