This a ride of a review! Info-dumping about my autism, the actual review and then more info-dumping about witches!!!

Info-dumping about my autism:

I've never realized how much of my unconventional behavior was linked to my autism. I do know I have undiagnosed autism but reading about this young girl trying to navigate middle school with autism, made me feel so seen.

Also, the fact that I'm currently a university student like her sister is really funny and I can confirm that university lighting is EVIL!!! They give me headaches everyday, to the point were I don't go to my in-person classes anymore. Instead I learn and study using manuals and exercises because most teachers only give their notes in class....(it's a struggle).

Also fun-fact! Since I'm doing a degree in physics, it's a very nerdy/weirdo community and there's this running joke that if you study physics you're either gay, autistic or both....this theory as not been disproved yet!

Also, I did read an entire thesaurus in middle school, my favorite part were the words in latin. Ever since I was a kid and even now, I have an obsession with words. I HATE words being used incorrectly. I will look up the exact definition of a word while writing or even sometimes while having a conversation. (i just looked up disprove) And I do understand what they mean in the context, my brain is just obsessed with having the EXACT definition!

I just spend three paragraphs ranting about me being autistic instead of reviewing the book.....so here it is!

Actual Review:

I really love the story and the characters, and I love that the author didn't try to sanitize what being autistic is. My only gripe with the book pertains to the ending and the general story that felt extremely rushed. It mostly felt like a description of main events without having time between them to weave the scenes together and make the reading experience more fluid.

INFO DUMP ABOUT WITCHES!!!:

fun fact! the witch trial in Europe wasn't actually the first and most horrid witch trial! the actual history of witches, and women being labeled as such, was deeply erased due to colonialism. The first 'witches' were actually Native American women who help positions of power or wisdom in their own tribe. When the colonizers arrived, they needed to demonize them in their own community to take away their influence and power within that community, so they would label them as witches or possessed by demons. Which let to the first depictions of 'witches' and the most horrid part of the history of the 'witches trials'. This whole part is usually completely glossed over when talking of the 'witches trials' because white American and European history was, and still is, extremely racist!