I really enjoyed this creeping, sinister tale of witchcraft, such a hugely satisfying read, a kind of fantasy history, full of complex, powerful, women.

A brilliant stand-alone story to read on cold, wintery nights with the wind howling and the rain pouring outside. I was looking forward to sinking into her newest novel, but I found myself distanced from it throughout.I liked the majority of "Now She is Witch" by Kirsty Logan, a very different witch story to those I've read in the past. On a technical level, she keeps getting stronger and stronger with every release, and Now She is Witch is near perfection. the stream of consciousness parts felt super random and were incredibly hard to read so i had to skip them completely. The soft, silky, slippery gift of the Earth, which is being twisted, bent and broken, dried out, cracked so many times. Any who assume agency are swiftly denounced and brutally dealt with: those labelled witches are tied to poles in the sea and left to slowly drown; others guilty of lesser offences (talking too much, too loudly or indeed at all) are paraded around in scold’s bridles, torture devices deployed to humiliate.

It’s not a rehashed version of another witch trial, it’s taking the notion of witches and demonstrating the roles women have been forced to play for centuries, and the level of violence and scorn thrown their way by men and society throughout history. In the harsh world of Now She Is Witch, which would seem to be some version of medieval Europe, most girls and women are possessions for men either to harm or play with.This is a book where you sit down to review it and end up having to ask yourself, how do I even start to describe it?

Kirsty Logan shows the limited choices left to these women, and draws the reader into their struggles to take control of their own lives. As they move quickly and quietly in a never-ending bone-achingly dark and cold forest Lux is convinced that her saviour whose face is hiding from the world is a North witch with tremendous power. I truly, truly highly recommend this book to everyone who needs some magic in their life or just a green light to finally be who they are.

It’s a kind of revenge plot, but being female in a male dominated time highlights the power and powerlessness of women at this time. The few cases in which midwives were accused of witchcraft, their jobs as midwives were often coincidental. But the one that I felt in my bones every time when she said; ‘If the owl is screeching under your window it means somebody is going to die. Men do awful things not because they're men and men are inherently selfish and horrible, but because society puts them in a position where they can do these things (albeit to a varying degree depending on their societal status) and get away with them. Now She Is Witch is part historical, part fantasy, an entwined mix of the two genres, such that you find yourself not quite sure.