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Her Majesty's Royal Coven: A Novel (The…
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Her Majesty's Royal Coven: A Novel (The HMRC Trilogy) (édition 2022)

par Juno Dawson (Auteur)

Séries: HMRC (1)

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A Discovery of Witches meets The Craft in this epic fantasy about a group of childhood friends who are also witches. If you look hard enough at old photographs, we're there in the background: healers in the trenches; Suffragettes; Bletchley Park oracles; land girls and resistance fighters. Why is it we help in times of crisis? We have a gift. We are stronger than Mundanes, plain and simple. At the dawn of their adolescence, on the eve of the summer solstice, four young girls--Helena, Leonie, Niamh and Elle--took the oath to join Her Majesty's Royal Coven, established by Queen Elizabeth I as a covert government department. Now, decades later, the witch community is still reeling from a civil war and Helena is the reigning High Priestess of the organization. Yet Helena is the only one of her friend group still enmeshed in the stale bureaucracy of HMRC. Elle is trying to pretend she's a normal housewife, and Niamh has become a country vet, using her powers to heal sick animals. In what Helena perceives as the deepest betrayal, Leonie has defected to start her own more inclusive and intersectional coven, Diaspora. And now Helena has a bigger problem. A young warlock of extraordinary capabilities has been captured by authorities and seems to threaten the very existence of HMRC. With conflicting beliefs over the best course of action, the four friends must decide where their loyalties lie: with preserving tradition, or doing what is right. Juno Dawson explores gender and the corrupting nature of power in a delightful and provocative story of magic and matriarchy, friendship and feminism. Dealing with all the aspects of contemporary womanhood, as well as being phenomenally powerful witches, Niamh, Helena, Leonie and Elle may have grown apart but they will always be bound by the sisterhood of  the coven.… (plus d'informations)
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Titre:Her Majesty's Royal Coven: A Novel (The HMRC Trilogy)
Auteurs:Juno Dawson (Auteur)
Info:Penguin Books (2022), 448 pages
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Évaluation:****
Mots-clés:Sci Fi, LGBT

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Her Majesty's Royal Coven par Juno Dawson

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    Payback's a Witch par Lana Harper (MiserableFlower)
    MiserableFlower: also witchy and the whole family coven feel
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    The Once and Future Witches par Alix E. Harrow (MiserableFlower)
    MiserableFlower: Witches and the fights for rights,
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    VenCo par Cherie Dimaline (ablachly)
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Leviathan will rise! ( )
  rsainta | Jul 23, 2023 |
A secret coven of witches look over supernatural affairs in England. There is a prophecy about something that will take them down and take the world down. Will four friend work together or will they have to fight each other to preserve the future.
It didn't quite work for me, interesting but I have no real urge to read further. ( )
  wyvernfriend | Apr 16, 2023 |
Best for:
People looking for magical worlds set in contemporary time, without supporting, say, anti-trans authors.

In a nutshell:
Witches are real, and there is a prophesy that a newly discovered teen, Theo, might bring about something very, very bad. A group of friends who were young witches together and have now followed different paths all become involved in addressing this.

Worth quoting:
N/A

Why I chose it:
I believe this was the last book I received before I ended a book subscription.

What it left me feeling:
Excited for the second in the series.

Review:
SPOILERS. CN for anti-trans words and actions, violence, war.

Spoilers because I can’t talk about most of the main points of the book without spoiling something that doesn’t happen until maybe 1/3 of the way through.

This book is set in modern times in the UK. HMRC is the initialism for Her (now His) Majesty’s Revenue and Customs, so it’s fun that the author is suggesting that HMRC also stands for Her Majesty’s Royal Coven. As an aside, I wonder if the next book will call it His Majesty’s Royal Coven? Anyway, the point is the book is set in the UK, and there are witches.

Helena, Niamh, Ciara, Elle and Leonie grew up together and discovered they were witches when they were young. Flash forward, and a great war has happened (where Ciara was on the wrong side, and is now permanently unconscious thanks to actions by her sister Niamh), involving all the witches and warlocks. In this world, witches are the more powerful - no warlock could be as powerful as a witch. And yet a teen boy Theo appears and is more powerful that pretty much any witch, and appears to be part of a prophesy that will result in a lot of very bad things. He doesn’t talk, he is scared, and Helena - who is now head of HMRC - asks her friend Niamh - who has left HMRC and works as a veterinarian - to take Theo in while they try to figure what to do.

Here’s where the spoilers come in - Niamh also takes in Elle’s daughter Holly to help train her now that she has learned she is a witch, and Theo comes out to Holly as trans. Which explains how Theo could be so powerful - she’s not a warlock, she’s a witch! Niamh and Holly are super supportive, but Helena is not. Helena is for sure a TERF, and from then on things get rough between the friend group.

Leonie is the only member of the friend group who is Black, and also the only one who is a lesbian. She left HMRC to form her own coven for witches who are Black and women of color so they have a place to be safe from the racism of white women. I think that part is well done and really interesting to read, but I appreciate some reviews I read that feel like Leonie is tasked with taking on too much representation (why are all the other witches in the friend group straight and white?), and her storyline sometimes feels a bit shoehorned in. That said, I think Leonie was my favorite character after Niamh, and part of that is probably because we spend much more time with Niamh.

The author of the book is a trans woman herself, and I’d imagine writing this book was a bit cathartic for her, given how shitty so many alleged feminist white women are to trans women in the UK right now. The reason the book for me is only three stars is that the writing is a bit … underdeveloped? Like, I wasn’t sure for awhile if I was reading a YA book. The chapters are all very short, and are from different character perspectives, which is a device I quite like, but needed a bit more refinement I think. That said, the ending was a full on gut punch, and I’m super looking forward to the sequel, which comes out this summer.

Recommend to a Friend / Keep / Donate it / Toss it:
Donate it ( )
  ASKelmore | Mar 19, 2023 |
I think the serious downside to giving a Villain a pov is that it forces you to take in more of the absolute vitriol that is their thought processes. When you have a terf of a villian like this, it’s becomes much hate spewing to willingly swallow even for the sake of plot or plot justifications. I don’t particularly enjoy the fact that Theo accepting their identify and deciding to live the way she wants is the main fulcrum between evil or not evil.

That aside I feel like too much is told to you and not enough is seen. I don’t understand the girls loyalty to each other when the antagonist is always an asshole? I don’t like that going into book one makes you feel like someone forgot to give you the prequel and just tossed you into the middle.

Also don’t get my started on the emphasis of “since the war” I spent more than half the book trying to figure out of this was a contemporary fiction… or if the timing was supposed to be closer to WW2? I don’t think it should have taken more than 50% of the way to finally get an explanation…. And the explanation we got was severely lacking the actually details, yet again.

Oh and last grump here…. What’s the point of an oracle if they only see the fake future and not the antagonist going full evil and getting into bed with demons and going against the coven?? Like NO ONE for saw that except Annie who said diddly squat? ( )
  MiserableFlower | Feb 23, 2023 |
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"...an exciting new direction for Dawson."
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Evil spirits observe silly young girls who are more given to curiosity, and so more easily led astray by elderly workers of harmful magic. - The Malleus Maleficarum, 1486
I agree with whoever said [the Spice Girls] are soft porn. They're the antichrist. - Thom Yorke of Radiohead, 1997
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A Discovery of Witches meets The Craft in this epic fantasy about a group of childhood friends who are also witches. If you look hard enough at old photographs, we're there in the background: healers in the trenches; Suffragettes; Bletchley Park oracles; land girls and resistance fighters. Why is it we help in times of crisis? We have a gift. We are stronger than Mundanes, plain and simple. At the dawn of their adolescence, on the eve of the summer solstice, four young girls--Helena, Leonie, Niamh and Elle--took the oath to join Her Majesty's Royal Coven, established by Queen Elizabeth I as a covert government department. Now, decades later, the witch community is still reeling from a civil war and Helena is the reigning High Priestess of the organization. Yet Helena is the only one of her friend group still enmeshed in the stale bureaucracy of HMRC. Elle is trying to pretend she's a normal housewife, and Niamh has become a country vet, using her powers to heal sick animals. In what Helena perceives as the deepest betrayal, Leonie has defected to start her own more inclusive and intersectional coven, Diaspora. And now Helena has a bigger problem. A young warlock of extraordinary capabilities has been captured by authorities and seems to threaten the very existence of HMRC. With conflicting beliefs over the best course of action, the four friends must decide where their loyalties lie: with preserving tradition, or doing what is right. Juno Dawson explores gender and the corrupting nature of power in a delightful and provocative story of magic and matriarchy, friendship and feminism. Dealing with all the aspects of contemporary womanhood, as well as being phenomenally powerful witches, Niamh, Helena, Leonie and Elle may have grown apart but they will always be bound by the sisterhood of  the coven.

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