Scratch Daughters

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Hannah Abigail Clarke: Scratch Daughters (2021, Erewhon Books)

400 pages

English language

Published Feb. 13, 2021 by Erewhon Books.

ISBN:
978-1-64566-017-0
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Review of 'Scratch Daughters' on 'Storygraph'

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*I received a free review copy in exchange for an honest review of this book. 

THE SCRATCH DAUGHTERS explores friendship, found family, queer identity, and the corrosive nature of hate as Sideways and her coven try to track down Madeline and get Sideways' specter back.

The worldbuilding has three sides, mundane, magical, and creepy. The mundane bits include the specificity of place which grounds this in rural Ohio, Sideways’ dads and the antique shop, and the Scapegracers still going to school while all this is happening. A lot of the magical stuff is new-to-them hexes and some backstory on Mr. Scratch’s previous coven. The creepy is everything witchfinder and Chantry, including a fucking weird tour of their house. 

THE SCRATCH DAUGHTERS wraps up several things left hanging from THE SCAPEGRACERS, the most prominent of which are Madeline’s next moves and what she wanted with Sideways’ specter. THE SCAPEGRACERS was about …