Hex Life: Wicked New Tales of Witchery edited by Christopher Golden

"These are tales of wickedness... stories of evil and cunning, written by today's women you should fear. Includes tales from Kelley Armstrong, Rachel Caine and Sherrilyn Kenyon, writing in their own bestselling universes.

Hex Life: Wicked New Tales of Witchery will take the classic tropes of tales of witchcraft and infuse them with fresh, feminist perspective and present-day concerns--even if they're set in the past. These witches might be monstrous, or they might be heroes, depending on their own definitions. Even the kind hostess with the candy cottage thought of herself as the hero of her own story. After all, a woman's gotta eat.

Bring out your dread."

I thoroughly enjoyed this book! I loved that a lot of the stories read like fairy tales, but in most of them, the witch or witches weren’t just ruthless monsters. I like that the stories were varied in perspective, as well as setting. Some were super creepy and some felt like a detective story, which made it interesting when I started the next story to see where I’d end up. Would recommend!

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Genre: fantasy, anthology

Representation: queer

Content Warnings: grief, homophobia, death, gore, violence, abuse, bullying, kidnapping, cheating, racism, sexual assault, racist slurs