New speculative fiction to look for!
I've been trying to catch up on my gigantic TBR pile, so YAY for reading! I even have some grownup books to read, but today is all about speculative fiction! The first one is a real charmer called The Grace of Wild Things by Heather Fawcett. It's about Grace, an orphan, who is living a fairly bleak existence in an orphanage but at 12 has decided to go and get trained up as a witch. She's pretty sure she has magical powers-her best friend is a crow that she rescued and she can understand him-he likes poetry and helps out when he can. She also can recognize people for what they are so when she approaches the witch, who looks like a friendly grandmother, she can see past her disguise to the evil witch that she truly is, which is what Grace aspires to be. Except that this witch cooks and eats children, so first Grace has to talk her way out of being the evening's main course. After that, Grace gets the witch to agree to take her on as an apprentice, but Grace ...