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Initiated

Initiated

Memoir of a Witch

by Amanda Yates Garcia

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appears in Witchcraft.

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes meets Women Who Run With The Wolves in this "gorgeously written, fierce, political, personal, and deeply inspiring" (Michelle Tea) memoir about finding meaning, beauty, and power through a life in witchcraft. An initiation signals a beginning: a door opens and you step through. Traditional Wiccan initiates are usually brough...

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Reading this novel feels like sinking into a long, atmospheric romance wrapped in antiquarian scholarship and occult lore. What works best is immersive texture: detailed library settings, historical asides, and a patient, erotic slow-burn between the central figures. The main limitation is pacing and density — extended info-dumps about manuscripts, history, and alchemy slow momentum and can feel repetitive. If you prize mood and world-detail over propulsive plotting, it rewards the time; otherwise it may drag.

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