VenCo

  

I received a copy of this release from the publisher in exchange for an honest review.

Title: VenCo

Author: Cherie Dimaline

Publisher: Random House / William Morrow

Release Date: 2.7.23

Publisher’s Summary 

Lucky St. James, a Métis millennial living with her cantankerous but loving grandmother Stella, is barely hanging on when she discovers she will be evicted from their tiny Toronto apartment. Then, one night, something strange and irresistible calls out to Lucky. Burrowing through a wall, she finds a silver spoon etched with a crooked-nosed witch and the word SALEM, humming with otherworldly energy.

Hundreds of miles away in Salem, Myrna Good has been looking for Lucky. Myrna works for VenCo, a front company fueled by vast resources of dark money.

Lucky is familiar with the magic of her indigenous ancestors, but she has no idea that the spoon links her to VenCo’s network of witches throughout North America. Generations of witches have been waiting for centuries for the seven spoons to come together, igniting a new era, and restoring women to their rightful power.

But as reckoning approaches, a very powerful adversary is stalking their every move. He’s Jay Christos, a roguish and deadly witch-hunter as old as witchcraft itself.

To find the last spoon, Lucky and Stella embark on a rollicking and dangerous road trip to the darkly magical city of New Orleans, where the final showdown will determine whether VenCo will usher in a new beginning…or remain underground forever.

My Review

Any book lover knows that sometimes the right book finds you at the right time. That is very much the case with VenCo. After a very upsetting stretch of holiday travel, this book was the perfect piece of escapism my poor, anxiety-ridden self needed. I was swept away on a magical road trip full of riddles and network connections. I got lost in the character and setting details, and eagerly anticipated the answers that would come when the seven spoons finally came together. I think I would have enjoyed this book whenever I would have read it, but it holds a special place in my heart for transporting me into a story during a time when I needed it most.