The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna Review

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How are you all today? I hope you’re good!

I’ve just finished reading “The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches” by Sangu Mandanna and I really enjoyed it! It wasn’t really a surprise that I would enjoy it to be honest, but it was very cute and had a few twists that I didn’t see coming!

“The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches” starts with our FMC, Mika Moon, a witch getting a call from the mysterious Nowhere House, a home for wayward girls. They want her to help them with the three young girls they have there, Altamira, Rosetta and Terracotta in controlling their magic. They have had to hide the girls away for fear of their powers being discovered. While there, at Nowhere House Mika learns a lot about family, redemption and love with a certain young man called Jamie. 

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“It looked, frankly, like a small piece of heaven.

“It’s beautiful,” she said simply.

“Beautiful enough to move in at once?”

“Ian.”

Mika bit back another smile and held firm. “I still need my answers. You haven’t really explained why you need me.”

“Let’s go in,” said Ken, pushing open the door.”

Mika lingered for a moment, her eyes on the garden. She hadn’t imagined the magic at the gates. There was magic here, she could feel it, and it wasn’t just because she was here, either. 

There couldn’t really be three young witches living here together, could there?” 

At the beginning of “The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches,” Mika gets a phone call asking for her help with three young witches. She’s surprised, to say the least at this question but goes to see this place with the three witches. Ian is very eager for he to move in as is evident above. He almost pushes her into staying. Ken, his partner also wants Mika to move in but is a little less pushy. Witches aren’t meant to be together in this version of the world. They’re presence is too much for most ordinary folk in Mika’s experience, or so her mother figure, Primrose bought her up believing. Can the group of young witches change her mind about this?

“Mika had been five years old the first time she’d floated off the ground by accident. The next day, she’d had a new nanny and a rare unscheduled visit from Primrose.

It hadn’t happened much after that. She’d learned to quickly control that particular bit of magical mischief.

She’d also been alone. There had been much less magic around. Altamira, just seven years old, in a house with two other young witches and more magic than Mika had ever seen in one place, didn’t stand a chance.

But that was why she was here, wasn’t it?” 

This is the first time Mika sees the magic that the girls can perform. It happens just because at the beginning or more to the point because the girls have no training. That’s what Mika is there to do! Can she? What obstacles get in her way? I’ll let you read for yourself but it was very sweet and cute. I loved the different personalities each young girl had. Rosetta seemed the most studious to me, Altamira was the hopeful one and Terracotta was the troublemaker. 

Another less significant plot line is Primrose, Mika’s foster mother if you like, bringing her up with no intention of telling her anything about witches! I thought this was mean and unwarranted. Of course, Mika wants to know where she came from. Primrose refuses to tell her until almost the end of the book! There’s another secret to do with Primrose as well that I won’t spoil here, but let’s say it took me by surprise!

As well as helping the girls learn to control their magic, Mika of course falls in love in the story. She falls for Jamie, a bit of a recluse who likes to hide away in his library. Can Mika bring him out and get him to experience new things? I’ll let you read for yourself, but I found it very sweet! 

Overall then, “The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches” was a great read. It had a little bit of everything I like in a good book. Could there have been more romance for me, yes, but I understand that romance isn’t everyone’s favourite thing in a book. Thats why I’m giving it 4 stars! I have the sequel “A Witch’s Guide to Magical Inkeeping” too, so I’ll give that a read sometime…

Stand by for my next review coming soon…