A Curse of Ash and Embers by Jo Spurrier

And no matter what the old witch throws at her, to Elodie it’s still better than going back home. Gyssha’s final curse left Aleida practically dead on her feet, and now, with huge monsters roaming the woods, a demonic tree lurking in the orchard and an angry warlock demanding repayment of a debt, Aleida needs Elodie’s help, whether she likes it or not. When she was hired at Black Oak Cottage, Elodie had no idea she’d find herself working for a witch and her acid-tongued new mistress, Aleida, was not expecting a housemaid to turn up on her doorstep. But the old witch is dead now, and somehow it’s Elodie’s job to clean up the mess.

Some people knit socks by the fire at night. We find out what comes next for our protagonist, Dee, who is an apprentice to the sardonic, morally grey badass witch Aleida and learning how to wield her own nascent magical abilities.Ĭontinue reading → ARC Review – ‘A Curse of Ash and Embers’ by Jo Spurrierĭate of Publication: 24th September, 2018Ī dead witch. This is book 2 in the ‘ Tale of the Blackbone Witches‘ series (my review for book 1 is here) and my excitement could not be contained when I got my hands on an early copy of ‘ Daughter of Lies & Ruin‘. And when the strange witch’s ire falls on her, Aleida’s wrath sparks a fire that threatens to scorch the earth itself …

There’s something strange brewing in this tinder-dry forest – a girl with a sword and a secret, a troupe of vicious bandits vanished without a trace, beasts that don’t belong and a witch with a macabre plan.Įlodie hasn’t been learning witchcraft for long, but she knows enough to be worried, and the fact that her mentor Aleida wants to pack up and leave in short order isn’t helping to settle her nerves.Įlodie just hopes to get everyone out of this mess unharmed, but it’s looking more unlikely with every passing hour. ‘If they didn’t want to get turned into beasts and used to fuel a ritual, they shouldn’t have attacked a witch. Why do the worst people sometimes make the best family? From the author of Winter Be My Shield and A Curse of Ash & Embers comes the next absorbing Blackbone Witches novel. Publication Details: by Harper Collins Australia on September 24th, 2019

A Curse of Ash and Embers by Jo Spurrier