The Green Witch's Herb and Plant Encyclopedia by Rowan Morgana

Don't buy this book. For starters, it is a very basic introduction to green witchery which has been done better elsewhere. There's a few spells, but again, nothing groundbreaking. Morgana also encourages wild foraging, which is fine for some plants, but not for others. She does encourage you to utilize findaforager.com to find a local foraging group and to ask permission of the landowner before going out.

However. She also is a little loosey-goosey with toxicity warnings -- one ritual calls for foxglove flowers to be placed around an altar with no warning for toxicity or suggestions to use gloves to handle the flowers. She suggests that African violets are edible -- nontoxic does not mean edible. (Thanks to another reviewer on Goodreads who pointed this out.)

I was also 99% sure that she had talked about smudging with either sage or sweetgrass, but I can't find the mention now. Anyways, the act of smudging is a closed practice, if you want to burn some sage, grow some in your garden and work with that.

Apparently, I have feelings about this. I would read Arin Murphy-Hiscock or Amy Blackthorn for green witchery. Scott Cunningham also has an encyclopedia of herbs.

I recieved an ARC from NetGalley in exchange for my honest opinion.

Swordcrossed by Freya Marske

This is another entry in the “queer couples work through trauma through politics” and I LOVED IT SO MUCH! We really need to name this subgenre because when it works, it works so well.

Edging more into the sword part of ‘sword and sorcery’ fantasy, swords and swordcraft are an integral part of the plot.

Definitely recommended, it’s a little spicy in a couple parts, so I would say older (17ish probably) teens and up.

I received an ARC from NetGalley for my honest opinion.

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