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The Coven Tendency
Zoe Hana Mikuta
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Zoe Hana Mikuta delivers a bloody and unrelenting fantasy about young witches dangling on the edge of love and obsession, of magic and madness, of life and death (and death and death and death).
Just like her mother and her mother’s mother, 18-year-old Vanity Adams is destined to lead a lavish life under the patronship of the Museum, someday taking her place as its premiere necromantic Spectacle and the centerpiece of their weekly soirees thrown for the City’s elite.
But until that day, Vanity (and the other young witches of the Museum) is isolated from the outside world and purged of her magic—magic being particularly unstable for teenagers and often leading to antisocial conduct, mood swings, bloodlust, delusions, and, most concerning, a habitual, violent obsession with one another.
To all of this, Vanity thinks:
“Well, whatever. Better than being confined to the Sanatorium with the less fortunate witches, imprisoned in a chemically induced coma as her blood is harvested to make World, the City’s favorite designer drug. At least she’ll be dead someday, there’s always that. And at least the Museum has Arrogance, Vanity’s twin sister, who just might remember how to do magic, and who just might be where our story begins…”
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Celestial\ \ Steph\ \ • Jan 10
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Celestial\ \ Steph\ \ • Jun 22 2025
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Celestial\ \ Steph\ \ • Jun 21
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thank you to Disney Hyperion and Tiny Ghost Press / Ingram Spark for the gifted copy!
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thank you to Simon Teen and Disney Hyperion for the gifted copies!
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Celestial\ \ Steph\ \ • Oct 20 2025
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Celestial\ \ Steph\ \ • Jul 26 2025
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give me all the freaky necromancer witches, please!!!
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