#Ava Morgyn

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The Bane Witch by Ava Morgyn

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The Bane Witch by Ava Morgyn was a 5/5 star read for me!

I thought the writing was incredibly well done and did a great job of adding atmosphere to a book about a woman named Piers Corbin who has always been drawn to poison—both in plants and dangerous relationships.

After faking her death to escape a violent marriage, Piers moves to the mountains to live with her estranged great-aunt. There, Piers discovers her legacy as a Bane Witch: a woman who can consume deadly plants and eliminate evil men. As she embraces her dark inheritance, working at her aunt’s café and toying with a local sheriff’s interest, she catches the attention of a nearby serial killer. With her past and present closing in, Piers must confront her own nature and the killer before it’s too late.

​This book was a great moody rumination with feminist overtones that didn't feel heavy-handed. Instead, this added to the empowerment of what being a witch is about, which we have learned about from other tales and folklore. The author left me at the edge of my seat enough to keep me turning the pages while still maintaining an atmospheric tale that centered on a unique form of magic.

​I would recommend this to any reader in my life who loves thrillers, mystery, and fantasy.

Pub Date Mar 18 2025

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August 2024 Wrap-Up

Here is what I read, posted, won, received, and bought in August. Let me know if you have read any of these books and what you thought of them. Books I Read: Did Not Finish Books Reviewed: Ami (Guardians of the Dawn: Book 2) by S. Jae Jones—review here Agony Hill by Sarah Stewart Taylor—review here Shock and Paw by Cate Conte—review here The Full Moon Coffee Shop by Mai Mochizuki—review…

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The Witches of Bone Hill by Ava Morgyn

Published: September 26, 2023 St. Martin’s Griffin Genre: Contemporary Women’s Literature Pages: 406 KKECReads Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ I received a copy of this book for free, and I leave my review voluntarily. Ava Morgyn is a native Texan who grew up falling in love with all the wrong characters in all the wrong stories. She is a lover of crystals, tarot, and powerful women with bad…

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The Witches of Bone Hill by Ava Morgyn

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Cordelia Bone’s life is in shambles…her husband, who has been cheating on her with her 20-something y.o. assistant, has now left her and racked up tons of debt in her name! So when her estranged sister Eustace calls and tells Cordelia the great aunt they never knew has died and they have inherited her large estate, she sees it as an opportunity for a clean slate. But the Bone Hill mansion has a dark past, secrets, and is more than either Cordelia or Eustace expected. Will the Bone sisters be able to find out what happened to their mother, uncover their family’s mysteries, and discover who is preventing them from obtaining Bone Hill?

This story is unlike any other “witchy” book I’ve ever read…it was so much darker, macabre, and has such a well thought out backstory! It took me the first few chapters to really get into the book but once I did I was hooked. I will absolutely read Ava Morgyn’s next book! This was a great fall book, and I definitely recommend reading.

Read if you love:

🔮Witches

💀Macabre/Seances

📜Norse Mythology

🤫Family Secrets

🔥Slow Burn Romance

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REVIEW

THE WITCHES OF BONE HILL by AVa Morgyn at The Reading Cafe:

The premise is suspenseful, intriguing and thrilling-bordering on horror;

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The Three Sages

Simeon Silversweater aka. The Green Master

Morgyn Ember aka. The Light

Ana Mae Laveau aka. The Voodoo Queen

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tagged weeks ago by dear @thesumdancekid, @broadwayfreak5357, and @cowherderess in overlapping tag games so i’m combining them! Thank you for tagging me friends 🫶

last song: The Trouble with Wanting by Joy Williams (a Ted/Rebecca song btw)

last film: Batman (1989) because my fiancé and I are watching all the Batman movies and listening to the Newcomers podcast. I too am a newcomer, and I enjoyed it! But his suit was So stiff omg

currently reading: started The Witches of Bone Hill by Ava Morgyn. The vibes are great so far.

currently watching: caught a couple Friends episodes on TBS yesterday for the first time in ages and enjoyed them so much. I'll be sticking with that for the moment.

three ships: Ted/Rebecca, Castle/Beckett, Luke/Lorelai

favorite color: maroon, orange, light pink

first ship: in terms of actively engaging in fandom and feeling unhinged and what not, Booth and Brennan of Bones

relationship status: in a relationship

currently consuming: a non-dairy milkshake from shake shack

tagging @imlorelai @talldecafcappuccino @mrgaretcarter @kittensittin @waddingham @ohtendril and @thesumdancekid @broadwayfreak5357 @cowherderess cause it's been so long maybe your answers will be different!

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The Bane Witch by Ava Morgyn - Review

The Bane Witch by Ava Morgyn – Practical Magic meets Gone Girl in Ava Morgyn’s next dark, spellbinding novel about a woman who is more than a witch – she’s a hunter. Piers Corbin has always had an affinity for poisonous things―plants and men. From the pokeweed berries she consumed at age five that led to the accidental death of a stranger, to the husband whose dark proclivities have become……

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Having written two YA novels, author Ava Morgyn is getting more adult with her Gothic urban fantasy horror mystery romance novel "The Witches Of Bone Hill." To find out why, and how (and also, doggies!), check out this exclusive interview. 📖🧙‍♀️🧙‍♀️🦴

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THE SALT IN OUR BLOOD

by Ava Morgyn

(AW Teen, 3/2/21)

9780807572276

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Ten years ago, Cat's volatile mother, Mary, left her at her grandmother's house with nothing but a deck of tarot cards. Now seventeen, Cat is determined to make her life as different from Mary's as possible. When Cat's grandmother dies, she's forced to move to New Orleans with her mother. There, she discovers a picture of Mary holding a baby that's not her, leading her to unravel a dark family history and challenge her belief that Mary's mental health issues are the root of all their problems. But as Cat explores the reasons for her mother's breakdown, she fears she is experiencing her own. Ever since she arrived in New Orleans, she's been haunted by strangely familiar visitors--in dreams and on the streets of the French Quarter--who know more than they should. Unsure if she can rebuild her relationship with her mother, Cat is realizing she must confront her past, her future, and herself in the fight to try.

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Resurrection Girls by Ava Morgyn

"'My heart has never been so full and so empty at the same time. I didn't know the human heart could do that, but it can. It can hold two things at once, like two hands.'"

Year Read: 2019

Rating: 3/5

Context: I received a free e-copy through NetGalley from the publishers at Albert Whitman & Company. Trigger warnings: death/child death, suicide attempt, drowning, addiction, overdose, (underage) drug/alcohol abuse, grief, threats, hospitals.

About: When Olivia's little brother drowned in their backyard pool three years ago, her world stopped. Her father stays late every night at work, and her mother has descended into a haze of prescription drugs. It isn't until the Hallas women move in across the street that things change. Kara is the first person to attempt to draw Olivia back into the world of the living. She has a strange hobby of writing letters to men on death row, and Olivia joins her. They call themselves the Resurrection Girls. But the Hallas women are not as they appear, and a shadow looms over Kara, her mother, and her grandmother--a shadow that Olivia knows all too well.

Thoughts: This is a strange and enjoyable novel, and while I didn't love it, I've never read anything else quite like it either, and I'm prone to recommending books on that alone. Its strongest aspect is the unflinching way that it looks at grief after the death of a child and how each of Olivia's family members deals (or fails to deal) with that loss. It's difficult to read about characters who are in so much pain, so if you know that isn't for you, it's better to pass on this book. Their grief is the theme at the heart of the novel, the rest of the plot merely orbiting around it.

And that may be the main issue with Resurrection Girls: the rest of the plot feels like an afterthought. The Hallas women remind me a little of the Hempstocks in a Neil Gaiman book; they're probably witches, but you can only tell if you're looking at them sideways. The magical aspect of the novel is interesting--maybe more interesting than anything else that's happening--but it's under-developed. By the time it comes into play near the end of the book, there's too much weirdness in too short a time without enough explanation. But then, some readers like questions unanswered. I'm even one of them at times, but I wanted I little more to go on earlier in the novel and a little more development of the supernatural aspects at the end. The two sides never quite come together as well as they could.

The characters are fine. Olivia is largely characterized by grief, both hers and her parents’. Lacking other coping mechanisms, she often turns to drugs or sneaking her mom's pills. Her character development overall is good, though, in facing her role in her brother’s death and getting her family members to do the same. I enjoy stories about toxic girl friendships, but Kara is a shadow compared to others of her kind, the Alaska Youngs and Astrid Thorntons of YA fiction. It's never really clear what sets her apart from other rebellious teenagers, and the magical charisma she has works better on the characters than the reader. (There's also a fairly pointless love triangle, if that's a red flag for anyone.) All things considered, it's a fine debut novel. I wouldn’t have reservations about picking up another of Morgyn's books to see how her talent develops.

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Olivia Foster hasn’t felt alive since her little brother drowned in the backyard pool three years ago. Then Kara Hallas moves in across the street with her mother and grandmother, and Olivia is immediately drawn to these three generations of women. Kara is particularly intoxicating, so much so that Olivia not only comes to accept Kara's morbid habit of writing to men on death row, she helps her do it. They sign their letters as the Resurrection Girls. But as Kara’s friendship pulls Olivia out of the dark fog she’s been living in, Olivia realizes that a different kind of darkness taints the otherwise lively Hallas women—an impulse that is strange, magical, and possibly deadly.

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Blogtober Day Nine|Resurrection Girls by Ava Morgyn

Blogtober Day Nine|Resurrection Girls by Ava Morgyn

In the weeks since Kara moved in, I’d crossed more thresholds than I could count. I was finally coloring outside the lines.

Synopsis

Olivia Foster hasn’t felt alive since her little brother drowned in the backyard pool three years ago. Then Kara Hallas moves in across the street with her mother and grandmother, and Olivia is immediately drawn to these three generations of women. Kara is…

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Morgyn: Dude wtf?!

Ava: RAAAAAWRRRR!

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New Young Adult Releases Coming Out Today! (March 2nd, 2021)

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Have I missed any new Young Adult releases? Have you added any of these books to your TBR? Let me know! ___

New Standalones/First in a Series:

Yolk by Mary H.K. Choi

Once Upon a Quinceañera by Monica Gomez-Hira

Bones of a Saint by Grant Farley

Follow Your Arrow by Jessica Verdi

The Bright & The Pale by Jessica Rubinkowski

The Castle School (For Troubled Girls) by Alyssa Sheinmel

I Think I Love You by Auriane Desombre

Home is Not a Country by Safia Elhillo

Down Comes the Night by Allison Saft

The Stolen Kingdom by Jillian Boehme

The Secret Life of Kitty Granger by G.D. Falksen

The Lake by Natasha Preston

The Salt in Our Blood by Ava Morgyn

New Sequels: 

Good Girl, Bad blood (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder #2) by Holly Jackson

Infinity Reaper (Infinity Cycle #2) by Adam Silvera

Dark Stars (Dark Stars #3) by Danielle Rollins

Chain of Iron (The Last Hours #2) by Cassandra Clare

The Queen’s Secret (The Queen’s Secret #2) by Melissa de la Cruz

Phoenix Flame (Havenfall #2) by Sara Holland 

Red Tigress (Blood Heir Trilogy #3) by Amélie Wen Zhao

Covet (Crave #3) by Tracy Wolff 

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Happy reading!