Hello Everyone Hope you are all having a great weekend. Today I’m very excited to be part of The Witch’s Kiss blog tour hosted by HarperCollins. I am currently reading the book and absolutely loving it, what I love so far is that it’s set in present day. Anyway’s I’m digressing Katherine and Elizabeth are here with their top 5 witches it literature and if you don’t know or haven’t heard of this book here is a little more about the novel.
The Witch’s Kiss (The Witch’s Kiss #1)
by Katherine and Elizabeth Corr
Release Date – June 30th 2016
Publisher – HarperCollins
Buy – Amazon | Book DepositorySixteeen-year-old Meredith is fed-up with her feuding family and feeling invisible at school – not to mention the witch magic that shoots out of her fingernails when she’s stressed. Then sweet, sensitive Jack comes into her life and she falls for him hard. The only problem is that he is periodically possessed by a destructive centuries-old curse. Meredith has lost her heart, but will she also lose her life? Or in true fairytale tradition, can true love’s kiss save the day?
Our Top 5 Witches in Literature
witches (good and bad) in fiction to choose from. But we’ve had a go….
from The Disc World Series, by Terry Pratchett
‘Her expression wasn’t perhaps as vicious as thumbscrews, but it didsuggest thumbscrews were a real possibility.’
not to love Granny Weatherwax. She’s undoubtedly powerful (she never loses a fight), but not in a
flashy, Maleficent kind of way. Yes, she dresses in black (‘cos it’s respectable’)
and will fly a broomstick if she absolutely has to, but she’s not really one
for wands or cauldrons. Or even, for that matter, spells. Instead, Granny’s particular
brand of magic very much comes from the heart and, more often than not, from
the head. Frequently, it involves out-thinking or just plain out-manoeuvring
her opponents by any means possible (bluffing, tricking and lots of insinuating
that very bad things may be just
about to happen). Although she’s a ‘good’ witch, with a strong sense of morality,
a lot of her power over others stems from the mean-old-lady persona she cultivates.
She has a withering stare that could melt the sun, and she’s not afraid to use
it.
2. Hermione Grangerfrom Harry Potter, by J K Rowling.
good, is it?’
very modern, teenage witch, as well as something of a feminist icon. She’s
confident, ambitious and unapologetically smart. Sure, she’s a know-it-all. But
let’s face it, usually she does know
it all (particularly in comparison with the oh-so-clueless Ron, and often even Harry).
Hermione works hard to excel at witchcraft and excel she does. And she never
dumbs herself down in order to fit in with anyone, or to appease the men (or boys)
in her life. Harry’s the ‘chosen one’, who ultimately defeats Voldemort, but
Hermione’s the one with all the sass. Without her, we very much doubt Harry
would have made it out of his first year at Hogwarts in one piece. We’re
absolutely sure Ron wouldn’t have.
also from Harry Potter
Like LordByron, Bellatrix is ‘mad, bad and dangerous to know.’ A pure-blood witch,
former Death Eater and fanatical follower of Voldemort, she out-performs the
Wicked Witch of the West on the wicked scale 10-1. Vicious, sadistic and quite obviously unhinged,
she merrily tortures and kills her way through the Harry Potter series. We have
a couple of really nasty magical types in The
Witch’s Kiss, and Bellatrix very much appeals to our darker side as
writers. She literally puts the dark into ‘Dark Arts’.
The Worst Witch, by Jill Murphy
broomstick, Mildred,’ said Miss Hardbroom wearily.
If we wereto choose who to emulate, we’d like
to be Hermione. We both suspect we’d be more like Mildred. But that’s okay.
Mildred is not quite as proficient a witch as Hermione; she actually screws up a
lot. But she’s young and vulnerable, and readers can identify with that. She also
has an incredibly big heart, and, one way or another, she eventually manages to
achieve her goal.
growing up we adored the Meg and Mog series. Meg is the archetypal witch. She’s
got a black hat, black boots, black cat, broomstick and a cauldron. What’s not
to love?
Thanks for stopping by and I hope you all have a great weekend. Be sure to pick this book up on your travels to bookshops and/or libraries or I will put a spell on you!! Haha.
Happy Reading
Emma
I loved this, thanks so much for sharing it!
Wow The Witch's Kiss sounds really intresting and I love a good fairy tale re-telling so I'll be sure to pick this up! ^^ Great Post!
I don't know about all these witches but for the ones I know yay!!! thanks for the discovery
I only know Hermione and Bellatrix but they are fab! Great post, Emma! 🙂
The witches Kiss sounds fab – I haven't had the chance to pick it up yet, but I've heard so many good things! And I am loving the cover!!