Embertide: A Fallow Sisters Novel by Liz Williams

(NewCon Press, 2022)

Reviewed by D.A. Lascelles

Embertide is the third in the Fallow Sisters series that began with Comet Weather and continued in Blackthorn Winter. If you are coming to this book having not read both of these, it would definitely be worth looking at these first otherwise you will get lost.

In Comet Weather we were introduced to the Fallow sisters—Bee, Stella, Serena and Luna—as they searched for their missing mother, Alys, and came to understand something of their family’s occult legacy. Bee lives in the old family home in Somerset, Stella and Serena work in London and Luna lives on the road with her Romany boyfriend, Sam. Throughout the previous books, each sister faces challenges and discovers things about themselves, in particular each one learns about their magical abilities.

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