Get Rec’d with Amanda – Volume 126

Welcome back! We’ve reached November, but I’m still going to sneak in some spooky reading suggestions. This time, we have an anthology, some nonfiction, and a witchy romance. Have any recs to share? Leave them in the comments! A Witch’s Entanglement What an atmospheric cover! If you’re looking for a unique witchy romance that taps into a sense of place, check this one out. It’s early fall, 1975. The war is over, ABBA recently released their spectacular third studio album, and Gretchen Marigold is having the time of her life. Making her way lovingly through the wanna-be witches who live alongside real magic users in her coven, Gretch is leaving a trail of broken hearts but satisfied lovers in her wake. Her life in the small town of Starbridge, Massachusetts is fun, carefree, and enchantingly delicious. Across town, rushing to a lecture on the Religions of Precolonial Mexico, Jace’s life is the opposite of carefree. Though she too is a witch, and a far more powerful one at that, she’s less than two semesters away from finishing her PhD at Wellesley College, and her schedule is jam-packed. As a black woman in academia, she has to work twice as hard for half the credit. As an ambitious...