2023/105: Her Majesty's Royal Coven — Juno Dawson

2023/105: Her Majesty's Royal Coven — Juno Dawson

HMRC was nice scones-and-jam English witchcraft. No menstrual blood. No sacrifices. No sex, please. We’re British. [loc. 2329]

Possibly because of the cover design, I'd somehow formed the impression that this was another Regency-set fantasy*. This error was very quickly dispelled in the prologue, which finds five pre-adolescent girls lurking in a treehouse and talking about which member of Boyzone they intend to marry. They're distracting themselves from the ceremony the next day in which they'll swear allegience to the eponymous Coven, founded by Anne Boleyn and charged with protecting the United Kingdom from magical threat.

A quarter of a century after that opening, a lot has changed. ( Read more... )

*It could be worse. A friend assumed it was another exposé about Meghan Markle.