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Conjure Women by Afia Atakora

canadajanes's review against another edition

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4.0

Interesting story, I like the way it jumped back and forth between times. Also, I accidentally got the large print version from the library.

minty's review against another edition

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3.0

Felt a little long, but I liked it well enough.

eyelit's review against another edition

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dark mysterious sad slow-paced

4.0

brownbagbargainbooks's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional reflective sad

3.5

kaetheghost's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark emotional informative mysterious medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix

4.75

joellie's review against another edition

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sad medium-paced

3.5

donnicakelsey's review against another edition

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mysterious tense slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix

3.5

plants_pages_poultry's review against another edition

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2.0

Conjure Women tells the story of May Belle , Rue, and Varina in three different time periods. Focusing on the midwives and healer women on a plantation during Slavery, Freedom, and War. The story is told through varying POVs and the way it is written is whiplash inducing. We go back and forth and back and forth through different POVs and it just feels so disjointed. The book goes on and on and then there is no real climax. This wasn’t the book for me.

chandraleereads's review against another edition

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4.0

This book is haunting, sad, and impactful. It was a graphic and difficult read, but also a very thought provoking and powerful story.

caleykapowski's review

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Reading the first quarter of this book, I realised it was not what I had expected from the blurb.