The Bewitching by Silvia Moreno Garcia Book Review
The Bewitching
By Silvia Moreno Garcia
Published Year: 2025
Page Count: 371 pages
Medium Used: Kindle PW
Genre : Fantasy, Mythical Beings, Supernatural, Horror, Sorcery, Magic, Dark Academia, Witches & Warlocks, Suspense, Psychological Thriller, LGBTQ, 2025-read.
Rating : 5/5 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
Few pages into the book, I realized that this is the book I have been waiting for a long long time. It totally sucked me in - I forgot time and surroundings. With unwavering attention and a thudding heart, I flipped the pages. I wanted the story to never end but I was also skittish to reach the end of it. The surprise twists made my heart skip a few beats and my pulse to quicken. This is the stuff nightmares are made of. It is so very scary and it only gets better as the story progresses. Until the end, the suspense lingers. I somehow suspected and hunched out the perpetrators but that didn't diminish my interest one bit. I devoured - for a lack of better word - the book,gorging the whole story. I picked up a few interesting points about witches, how they would bewitch someone whose blood they want to drink and heart they want to carve, how to avoid them, keep them away and ofcourse how to kill the more powerful sorcerers.
The world development across the three time lines .. 1908, 1934 and 1998 .. is flawless. The characters are intensely fierce and firy women who wouldn't shun fighting off monstrous and supernatural witches/warlocks. At the outset, this is a story about three women from different times falling prey to witchcraft and their experiences facing the challenge of defeating a supernatural power bent on taking them down. In 1908, Alba is a young girl who loses her brother to witchcraft. Her family's farm starts losing horses which die off mysteriously and goats get butchered in the wee hours of the night. Some mystical power also kills off her beau brutally. She resolves to avenge her brother and lover's deaths. She identifies the witch that has bewitched them and confronts them. Fast forward to 1934, a young woman in a university in New England, full of life and bluster, goes missing. There are several theories of what could have happened but only those closest to her know that for a while before her disappearance, she has been acting out. She has been sensing someone following her and keeping a watch over her. Afraid she would be committed to the mad house, she conceals her fears and premonitions. Moving even forward to 1998, young Minerva connects these two strange worlds and timelines from above. She is the grand daughter of Alba and is hence from a powerful family tree. She is researching the missing case of the woman from 1934 and connects all the missing dots.
I was sitting on the edge through out. I know this makes for a wonderful TV adaptation. Do read it!!
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