Date Of Review: April 18, 2024
Review Left On GoodReads:  https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6408230111 

The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches

Author:  Sangu Mandanna
Narrator:   Samara Maclaren
Started: April 6, 2024
Finished: April 8, 2024
Genre: fantasy
Length: 10 hours
Part Of A Series: no
Type Of Book:  audio
Goodreads Link:   https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60018635-the-very-secret-society-of-irregular-witches 

Review:

I read this as part of the April reading choice for the Bujo Buddies Book Club https://bit.ly/JCCDiscord 

I really thought this would be a book I wouldn't really like.  Little did I know it would be my favorite book for April!  Maybe it's because I get Jaime so very much.  Mika was almost too positive for me, but the author made her just enough cynical to adore.  The girls - Terracotta, Rosetta, &  Altamira - where well written.  I adored Terracotta.  The icing on top of this cake was the couple - Ian & Ken.  

I think the longing of wanting to have a family that accepts me at the time of reading this book influenced my rating greatly.  Or it was the fact I was listening to Weirdos by Hell Boulevard a lot.  Either way, I love this book.  Will I love this book in a few years when my life is back to it's normal 'it is what it is' views?  Probably not

Goodreads Description:

As one of the few witches in Britain, Mika Moon knows she has to hide her magic, keep her head down, and stay away from other witches so their powers don't mingle and draw attention. And as an orphan who lost her parents at a young age and was raised by strangers, she's used to being alone and she follows the rules...with one exception: an online account, where she posts videos pretending to be a witch. She thinks no one will take it seriously.

But someone does. An unexpected message arrives, begging her to travel to the remote and mysterious Nowhere House to teach three young witches how to control their magic. It breaks all of the rules, but Mika goes anyway, and is immediately tangled up in the lives and secrets of not only her three charges, but also an absent archaeologist, a retired actor, two long-suffering caretakers, and...Jamie. The handsome and prickly librarian of Nowhere House would do anything to protect the children, and as far as he's concerned, a stranger like Mika is a threat. An irritatingly appealing threat.

As Mika begins to find her place at Nowhere House, the thought of belonging somewhere begins to feel like a real possibility. But magic isn't the only danger in the world, and when a threat comes knocking at their door, Mika will need to decide whether to risk everything to protect a found family she didn't know she was looking for....