La stagione dei malefici. Le streghe di Benevento

3.5 stars Emilio and Rosa are twins living on a farm outside the village of Benevento, an ancient town famous for its witches! Mysterious and bad things are happening on the farm. Rosa blames the Janara, the witches but Papa blames Rosa! Rosa has blamed witches on her own laziness one too many times. Leggi tutto

Twins Emilio and Rosa must contend with the mischief-making Janara - witches who play tricks on humans during the night - in this first entry in The Witches of Benevento chapter-book fantasy series, set in the witch-capital of Europe during the 1820s. Although their father does not at first believe

The story barely held my interest, but the drawings were cute and it was fun to read for Witchtober.

This book was written in a confusing way. all the way through I felt like I was missing something. It felt like there was a book before book 1 I didn't read. there was no character development of explanations who people were which. made the whole thing confusing and hard to understand. and the chara Leggi tutto

The first of a random series I found at the library. Based on early 19th century Italian legends. January 2022.

Good illustrations and fun concept