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Cover of The Honey Witch. The main feature of the cover is a house, seen through a flowery arch. The flowers are all colors and sizes. Cover of The Honey Witch. The main feature of the cover is a house, seen through a flowery arch. The flowers are all colors and sizes. Cover of The Honey Witch. The main feature of the cover is a house, seen through a flowery arch. The flowers are all colors and sizes. Cover of The Honey Witch. The main feature of the cover is a house, seen through a flowery arch. The flowers are all colors and sizes. Cover of The Honey Witch. The main feature of the cover is a house, seen through a flowery arch. The flowers are all colors and sizes. Cover of The Honey Witch. The main feature of the cover is a house, seen through a flowery arch. The flowers are all colors and sizes. Cover of The Honey Witch. The main feature of the cover is a house, seen through a flowery arch. The flowers are all colors and sizes.

The Honey Witch

Written by alamancelibraries on . Posted in Book Reviews.

Cover of The Honey Witch. The main feature of the cover is a house, seen through a flowery arch. The flowers are all colors and sizes.

“The Honey Witch,” by Sydney J Shields. Copyright 2024, New York: Redhook (268 pages, $18.99).

Content Warning: Fire/fire injury, death, grief, sexual content, miscarriage, blood, death of a parent, torture, confinement.

In Shields’ debut novel, she takes magic, nature, and finding one’s self when all odds are against you and turns it into the sweetest success. Marigold Claude has always preferred the ways of the wild than conforming to societies’ standards (and suitors) and jumps at the first chance she can to see a different life. Apprenticing under her grandmother, a honey witch, and then taking over for the care of the Isle of Innifree, Marigold faces the ups and downs of being a witch. One of those consequences being that no one can fall in love with a honey witch. A “curse” that Marigold was ok with, or so she thought.

As Marigold experiences loneliness after her grandmother’s passing, she seeks familial companionship in her friends. What Marigold did not think would happen was falling in love with the sceptic, Lottie, and the choice that Marigold now faces. Stay a witch, keep the curse, save Isle of Innifree. Or forsake all that she has worked towards in order to love openly and freely with Lottie.

The Honey Witch is a delightful fantasy novel with a lot of cozy vibes. I’m looking forward to seeing more of what Shields plans to write in the future.

Kayleigh Dyer is a Library Technical Processing Assistant at May Memorial Library. Contact her at kdyer@alamancelibraries.org.