As a young woman of color, her experience stands apart from the "White ethnic" witches and sorcerers. Lena is particularly compelling as a Native American witch who appreciates what she's being taught but more than anything would like to return to her own community. Frances is surrounded by fascinating friends at Haxahaven, and Smith does well by the supporting characters giving them all interesting backstories and motivations. She can be alternately impulsive, stubborn, selfish, and unthinking at times, but she's also clever, skilled, loyal, and protective of all she's loved.
Frances isn't always the traditionally lovable "chosen one" protagonist. Show moreĬharacter-driven page-turner is part thriller, part historical fantasy, and its story about young woman learning to claim her magical power is hard to resist. Frances begins to have dreams of a young man named Finn, and to believe that her magical abilities can help her solve the mystery surrounding her brother's murder.
At Haxahaven, the witches are taught to control their dangerous magic and only use it for safe, discreet domestic purposes. Frances quickly discovers that Haxahaven is actually an academy for witches, and that she had been rescued because the arrival of her magic had alerted the witches to come get her. But before the police can arrest Frances, two nuns appear to claim she's sick with tuberculosis and that she must report to Haxahaven Sanitarium. When a predatory manager assaults her after hours, Frances is about to die one moment and then the next moment, her scissors have flown into her attacker's neck. THE WITCH HAVEN by Sasha Peyton Smith is set in 1911 New York City, where 17-year-old Frances Hallowell is a working-class seamstress without any family: Her brother was killed unexpectedly months earlier her father is long dead and her mother has been in a sanitarium.
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