This Coven Won't Break (These Witches Don't Burn, #2)

by Isabel Sterling

But when Gem complained at lunch that her mom couldn’t drive her to the Cauldron, where she’s been studying Wicca with Lauren, I saw an opportunity I couldn’t miss.

ehhhhhh idk man now all the sudden she has to be a witch too…

despite my ongoing #notallBloodWitches campaign

…

It’s an old photo of me, one where I’m grinning at the camera while Veronica plants a kiss on my cheek. Below the photo is an article about Benton’s upcoming trial.

so she’s in the news now?

If I can convince him to help.

yes let’s entrust the safety of a whole race to one clueless teenager

He reaches for me, and I step forward into his embrace. “You shouldn’t have to do this,” he whispers, hugging me tight. I never noticed before, but he must wear the same cologne as Dad.

bro what. they’re hugging and he smells like her dad?? this is so weird

“You really made it so easy, Hannah. All those adorable pictures you post with her. We tracked your phone to the city, but the photo in the hotel lobby was very helpful.”

yeah i called that being a problem

Rachel is going to kill me when she finds out what I let happen.

yes a pregnant adult is going to harm a teenager for something she couldn’t stop

“It’s going to be okay.” The promise passes my lips even though I hate these kinds of platitudes. Even though absolutely nothing feels okay right now. “Riley can’t hurt you anymore.” She turns and lets me swallow her up in an embrace. “I hate him so much.”

that’s the concern… not his group’s determination to wipe out their species…

Alice will sneak the two of us inside.

yes alice will sneak in someone they KNOW the group is after, because she’s the MC. conspicuous!

Veronica and I have returned to our pre-dating friendship. Mostly.

since.. when… this is the first time they’ve mentioned her in the entire book

Or did you forget that like you forgot the rest of us when you ran away to college?”

ok i do admit i forgot she was at college. however i can’t believe her parents have just LEFT her there???? in this massive crisis? also pre-dating friendship my ass

Cal, who looks like my twin today in dark jeans, a navy dress shirt, and a soft cream sweater,

why does he… look like your twin… he’s wearing something completely different from you…

Lexie, a petite Black girl, cautiously approaches from the side of the house. She’s changed her hair since I saw her last—she has long braids now, which she’s wearing in a bun on top of her head—but I’d recognize those sharp, inquisitive brown eyes anywhere. She’s traded the stud in her nose for a thin hoop, and she’s dressed in jeans, red sandals, and an NYU T-shirt. “Lexie Scott?” Archer asks, crossing the yard to her. “Yeah. And this is Coral.” She gestures behind her at Coral, a Latinx girl

ah she got the message about the last book being too white i see

Benton’s expression haunts me the rest of the day.

god tell me they’re giving him a redemption arc. after he tried to BURN HER ALIVE

Archer slips into an abandoned parking garage and comes out ten minutes later driving an old sedan.

there just happens to be an abandoned parking garage that happens to have a car to hot wire

Lady Ariana levels her cold glare at the flippant Blood Witch. “You can stay here.” She speaks the words with a quiet coolness that drains the color from Alice’s pale face.

i swear she’s already said this before in the first book. like word for word

“You can eat ice.” I reach into the sky and grab hold of the wind and the rain and the rage boiling inside me. I freeze the rain and shape it into a spear.

honey why do you think the magic you can barely control is ANYTHING against an elder