Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery | 
I've read some fantastic books this year, making it tough to choose a favorite! After much deliberation, my top read for March was Slewfoot by Brom, with Bad Badger by Maryrose Wood as a close runner-up. The decision was just as difficult when looking back at my January and March reads, but once again, Slewfoot claimed the top spot. #bookbracket #bookbracket2025
pickA very slow burn of a book, but once it gets to the point of no going back. It‘s a heck of a ride. I adored the main likable characters and despised the awful people who thought better of themselves. If you enjoy people getting payback for horrific treatment caused by lies. You‘ll love this book. This book helped me through the toughest week of my life. In short. This book outlived my mom, by 4 days. Love you forever Momma Cat. 10/3/55 - 3/7/25
Started Slewfoot this evening. I'm really enjoying it so far.
pickJust realized I never put up a review for Slewfoot which was my second book read for #AuldLangSpine I really loved it. Peak feminine rage. Would be a great read for spooky season.
I found 3 of January‘s #WickedWords in Slewfoot and the other 2 in How Not to Die Alone aka Something to Live For.
I know this line was not meant to be read the way I just read it, but I am having a blast laughing my ass off regardless 🤣😈🫣
Just about 20% into Slewfoot and it‘s giving Myth side one / two vibes. I love it so much. I don‘t know if there are any littens here who are also fans of The Narcissist Cookbook but these albums just recently came out in December / January and it‘s a haunting combination of music and folklore style story telling and like this book so far, very eerie. #AuldLangSpine
Chrissy, you spoiled me with all these fun goodies! I love the lump of coal theme, the ravens, and all of it! Can't wait to start Slewfoot! Thank you so much for your sheer generosity! @chrissyreadit #naughtylistholidayswap #nlhs
“Sadly, one cannot know the best of times until they are gone, until they are lost.”
“You are not made out of needs, you are made out of your dreams and desires.”
pickIn the running for my best book of the year. A beautiful dark folklorish tale. Very Grimm. Can vengeance equal justice? Maybe. But it sure makes for a satisfying read. Humans are always the scariest monsters. “If you walk with the beast you become the beast.” All the stars. 
It‘s clean sheet day, so I came to bed early to enjoy them. I also had to dig out my reading gloves. It‘s all cozy in here.
Wow! @bookish_wookish you went above and beyond. I 😻 everything about my #hhs24 #hauntedhallowswap @bookish_wookish From the books to the book sleeve and bookmarks, to the candy and sticker, it is all stuff I love. And those socks! Tim Curry IS Pennywise. 🧑🍳 💋
100 🐈⬛ out of 10!
Thank you so much!
And thank you @wanderinglynn for hosting this great swap.
My #Recommendation for #HauntedShelf is Slewfoot. I read it last year for #Scarathlon & really enjoyed the dark tale of Abitha, who is fighting against the puritanical community she married into when she meets Samon/Slewfoot the newly awakened devil. Very atmospheric & perfect for the spooky season. 🍁🪄🌘
Team #Flerken
#LetsGoPoints
I‘m enjoying this book so much I made a little Pinterest image collage for aesthetic purposes. It‘s dark and kind of gory, but perfect witchy read set in 17th century Puritan New England.
I‘ve waited for it to get closer to autumn to start this book and it has been well worth the wait. I‘m already 58 pages in and can‘t put it down!
Here is my #cozycollage for #whimsicalreadsbookclub
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Getting all my photos from pinterest really has me in the fall mood!!! 📖🎃☕️🍁
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pickLoved this. Folklore, growing &changing is met with Christian concepts & corruption of man in colonial New England. Abitha was appropriately sassy without it feeling out of time with the setting. Highly atmospheric & eerie.
Several #LMPBC packages have been sent out today, including Slewfoot returning to Katelyn. This was a great last round! I enjoyed each of the members of our group and our Gothic lit theme. Thanks to each of you for some good reading these past 4 months!
Slew foot has arrived, @JackOBotts ! And it made me laugh out loud when I saw the SlewFoot snack 😂😂😂. That was great!
#LMPBC
pickLove it! Slow burn, but so worth it. I wouldn‘t say it‘s scary, but it has creepy and cringey moments and some great gore. Interesting that a feminist novel is written by a man.
pick#LMPBC Round 20 - Group G (Gothic Horror)• 5 Stars
Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery is a haunting journey set in 1666 colonial New England. The story follows Abitha, a recently widowed woman who struggles against her husband's puritan community as religious fervor escalates into mob mentality. Abitha befriends a forest spirit known as Slewfoot, who awakens hungry and is egged on by other spirits to kill and feed.
pickI loved this book. Anything Brom writes or illustrates, I‘ll like it. In his latest book, here we have the story of a young woman who is struggling to survive while living within Puritan rule. The misogyny and greed of the powerful men around her ultimately take hold, but the Wild God and his demons provide a chance for revenge. The story makes you think of all the victims of centuries ago. What if there had been someone to come to their aid?⬇️
I do not want your service or your soul, reverend man. I just want you to tell them, your breed of people, tell them what happened here. Tell them that the Devil, Slewfoot himself, burned down this church, killed them all…the men, the women, and the children. That he is wicked and cruel and shows no mercy. That he conjured demons and that they danced for him. Tell them to fear this forest, that Slewfoot waits for them there…awaits his chance⬇️
@suvata #LMPBC Slewfoot will be headed your way! 🧡
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#litsyfoundfamilyswap @Meshell1313 @5feet.of.fury I'm sending yalls packages out today!!!! 🤩💝
@JamieArc @JackOBotts @suvata
#LMPBC #groupG #Round20
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You'll see all my thoughts in this little envelope, and I also left some blank sheets for you all to write your thoughts as well. But just so you all know, I absolutely LOVED this book. It was just so full of imaginative creepy beings and a strong female lead. I am so happy to get to share this book with you all! I'll be sending it off to @suvata sometime next week!
I'm predicting this to be a 5 star read, and I'm only halfway through! I just love a quick-witted red head who often speaks to wildfolk. Brom is becoming one of my favorite storytellers. 🕷
@suvata @JackOBotts @JamieArc
I'm really excited to read all of our picks! Started my read today, and it's got all the religious gothic creepy vibes you could ever want! 20 pages in and women are not to speak unless spoken to, if you miss church you will be put in the stocks, so forth and so on....I'm hoping for a demented comeback on all the puritans who have wronged anyone!!!!! 🤘🖤🐐🪦
#lmpbc #groupG #gothichorror
pickSlewfoot was a wonderful balance between joy and horror. I‘ve always had an odd obsession with the Salem Witch Trials and this book had all the elements of interest. It had the most satisfying ending! 4.5/5!
so-soMaybe it‘s because I‘m not a fan of the VVitch, which this book reminded me a LOT of, but it just didn‘t do it for me. It was so slow and while I did enjoy the ending, it didn‘t make up for how slow it was.
#wintergames #wintergames2023 #wintergames23 #snowangels #teamsnowangels #20in4 #ScaryChristmasReadathon #Rushathon
1. I only read one book this month (technically, I don‘t count all the things I‘ve read for training) so it has to be Slewfoot.
2. Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief! I haven‘t reread it since middle school and with the show coming out, I‘d love a refresher.
#twofortuesday #two4tuesday @TheSpineView @Lin3han
pickRead for #Scarathlon & during the readathons listed below, I really enjoyed this dark tale of Abitha, who is fighting against the puritanical community she married into when she meets Samon/Slewfoot the newly awakened devil. Very atmospheric & perfect for the spooky season.
242 #ScarahlonWordSearch words + 20 & 15 for using it in a padt photo challenge + 1 made for 2456 points for Team #SpookyGhostClub 👻🖤👻
Read for the readathons below ⬇️
DieAReader, Texreader, Clwojick, Read4life, StayCurious, TEArificbooks, Andrew65, TheSpineView, GHABI4ROSES, LiseWorks
#AHRS #Allhollowsreadswap @MaleficentBookDragon thank you for hosting.
Thank you so much for this fun book box @BookNAround I am super excited to read these and my kids and I are enjoying the candies. They are sooo yummy. 🎃📖🧙♀️
I loved my #nightmareswap box! I love Dracula and Frankenstein so the bookmarks are a hit to my heart ❤️. I am obsessed with diamond painting as well so I will be starting asap! Slewfoot is a book I recently saw at Barnes and nobles so I can‘t wait to read it. @LibrarianRyan @Readergrrl
Surprisingly cute book about a recently widowed woman in a puritanical society who befriends a devil trying to figure out who he is.
pickThis is a fantastic story of a woman named Abitha, who is trying to survive life in a Puritan village after her husband dies. Then she meets Slewfoot, the local demon, just recently reawakened.
#BlackCatCrew #Scarathlon #Witchathon @TEArificbooks #Readathon @PuddleJumper #TBRTarot @CBee Brom dedicated it to his Mother 🖤
#Rushathon @Andrew65 @DieAReader @GHABI4ROSES #31By31 @Catsandbooks #Falling4Books @Read4life #Spookoween @TheSpineView
#ScarathlonPhotoChallenge
This one is on my #Scarathlon TBR list & I hope to start reading the library print copy this weekend. I find the cover with the large golden #Moon mesmerizing. 🌝 🖤
+6 points for Team #SpookyGhostClub 👻🖤👻
pickA masterpiece. Truly. Abitha is a badass 🖤
pick🎃🎃🎃🎃folk horror at its finest! A perfect book for spooky season.
Here‘s my this or that for #HauntedHollowsSwap. I tend to go more towards dark fantasy or paranormal base, rather than straight horror. The tag book is one of my favorite by one of my favorite authors.
What was the last 5 star book you read this year? Mine is Slewfoot by Brom
A little brutal but absolutely loving the vibez
