![]() However, when a new dark plague descends upon their village and infects her father, Wren turns to Tamsin for help rather than watch him lose his memories. ![]() ![]() Rather than journey to the Witchlands to train when she realized her true identity, Wren has kept her abilities secret in order to stay at home to care for her chronically ill father. Unbeknownst to those around her, Wren is a Source, a human made of magic who cannot use it herself but who can serve as a conduit to increase the strength of witches. Seventeen-year-old Wren lives in the same village. Absorbing others’ emotions is the only way Tamsin can feel anything, and she’s resigned to herself to a gray, empty life, thanks to her curse. Banished from the Coven and essentially exiled to the human realms, she spends her days making deals with the people of her village, trading spells for their love. ![]() ![]() The story follows Tamsin, a seventeen-year-old witch doomed to never feel emotion again as punishment for a desperate choice she made when she was just twelve years old. (And, let’s be honest, a lot of them are really great at it.) But every so often a story comes along that feels like something utterly new – and that’s precisely what Adrienne Tooley’s debut novel Sweet & Bitter Magic does. For those of us who read a lot of YA fantasy, it can often feel like there are only so many different kinds of stories, no matter how talented specific authors may be at telling them. ![]()
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