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Fave Five: New Queer Witchy YA, 2025 Edition

Whoops, make that six. Hit Me With Your Best Charm by Lillie Vale (f/f) Extraordinary Quests for Amateur Witches by Kayla Cottingham (m/m) Everything She Does is Magic by Bridget Morrissey (f/f) Witchlore by Emma Hinds (m/x) No Charm Done by Tori Anne Martin (f/f) Brewed With Love by Shelly Page (f/f)

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April 2025 JOMPBPC: Day 29 Freebie

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✨ BOOK REVIEW ✨

Practical Rules for Cursed Witches by Kayla Cottingham

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QOTD: Have you read any witchy books recently? What’s been your fave?

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This was a really fun read with a fantastic cast of characters. I absolutely adored this incredible found family and I loved getting to know them over the course of this book.

While I’m glad we got so much character time, I do think the overall plot didn’t quite stretch to the length of this book, if that makes sense? It was a good plot but it dropped away many times and became a little repetitive.

That being said, I still had a great time reading this book. Delilah was a brilliant MC, full of so much life and love and a sense of adventure, and her romance with Briar was wonderfully written. All their ups and downs made perfect sense for both of these characters.

I really enjoyed the way Briar softened over the course of this book as she learned and slowly started to believe that she was loveable and the way she’d been treated her whole life was not at all her fault.

I definitely need to pick up Kieran’s book too because he was an absolute gem in this one.

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Title: Extraordinary Quests for Amateur Witches | Author: Kayla Cottingham | Publisher: Delacorte Press (2025)

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(New Young Adult Releases Coming Out Today! (September 23rd, 2025)

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Have I missed any new Young Adult releases? Have you added any of these books to your TBR? Let me know!

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New Releases:

Moonsick by Tom O'Donnell

My Mother, the Mermaid Chaser by Jamie Jo Hoang

Watch Us Crack by Gabriella Lepore

Try Your Worst by Chatham Greenfield

Flip by Ngozi Ukazu

Truth Is by Hannah V. Sawyerr

This Raging Sea by De Elizabeth

Hello Sunshine by Keezy Young

Extraordinary Quests for Amateur Witches by Kayla Cottingham

The Guardians of Dreamdark: Windwitch by Laini Taylor

Exquisite Things by Abdi Nazemian

New Sequels:

A Steeping of Blood (Blood and Tea #2) by Hafsah Faizal

Unending (The Unseelie Duology #2) by Ivelisse Housman

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Happy reading!

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#58 of 2025

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Practical Rules for Cursed Witches by Kayla Cottingham

GENRE: YA Cozy Fantasy REP: wlw, white bisexual female mc. white sapphic female mc, nonbinary sc, achillean scs CW: terminal illness (curse induced), child abuse LENGTH: 432 pgs

A sapphic fantasy adventure about a teen witch who must complete her magical training by breaking a powerful family’s curse. But her own affliction—to never find true love—gets in the way when she falls for the girl she’s trying to save.

We got this cute & pastel edition from @rainbowcrate's August Box with the Cozy Fantasy theme.

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i'm reading practical rules for cursed witches by kayla cottingham and i appreciate that the main character is six feet tall, we need more tall girls in ya literature