Witchlings (Book 1) Review


The last book I read for Middle Grade March!

The first book of the Witchlings series by Claribel Ortega follows Seven: a girl who gets placed in the "Spare" coven of her town. Being a Spare witch is practically considered a curse since they don't have full powers and are looked down upon by everyone. But Seven tries to break out of this situation to become a full-fledged witch by requesting to do an impossible task: hunting down the Nightbeast!

It's been so long since someone invoked an impossible task, and anyone who fails to complete it gets turned into a toad. Seven, her new friend Thorn, and her bully-turned-friend Valley waste no time researching the Nightbeast and finding how to capture it. But at the same time, the Nightbeast and its minions called cucos have been attacking citizens in their town and nearby towns. The attacks always seem to happen whenever the towns (or at least Seven's town) try to vote on giving more rights to Spares. Someone Seven thought she could trust seems to be behind it all...

I will leave it there since I don't do spoilers! I gave this first book 5 stars. This was such an epic book. It kind of reminded me of the Amari series and the Morrigan Crow series. If you like either of those two series, you will like this! I will definitely be reading the rest of this series, too.  

Also, in Witchlings, there are also side characters who are a sapphic couple and one nonbinary character!  

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