Feral Queer Teen Witches!
The Scapegracers
Hannah Abigail Clarke
I am fiercely in love with this book! It is one of my favorite reads of 2020.
"I call down the screaming cosmos and I cry for chaos. We want something impossible. We want something the papers can't explain, something so wild and gorgeous that nothing could doubt it, not ever.”
The Scapegracers is about Sideways, an outcast teen witch, who is befriended (although that word sounds too soft for them- adopted? stolen?) by a trio of the scariest and coolest girls in school. It's about making a coven, about ignoring established institutions and rules and building a family. It's about goth girl gangs cursing bland dudes who want to control them. It's about queerness, and desire, and the feeling of being wanted (platonically, socially, romantically) for maybe the first time. It's talking books, and ink demons. It's about power, and taking power. It's parties in abandoned houses, and queer dads and thrift store treasures, and the simple shattering joy of someone braiding your hair. It's blood, and spraypaint, and nail polish.
The Scapegracers is lush, creepy, angry, loving, and so, so decadent.
ARC provided by #Netgalley and Erowhon Books in exchange for an honest review. Many thanks! #Scapegracers
