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The Witches of Gloucester

By: Lisabet Sarai
Narrated by: Lorraine Walters
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It’s not about power. It’s about love.

The historic port of Gloucester, Massachusetts, has a special charm, due at least in part to its resident witches. For decades, raven-maned Marguerite and red-headed Beryl have lived among its hard-working inhabitants, making magic and mischief. Love and sex fuel their supernatural abilities, but duality limits their power. To reach their full potential, they need a third witch to complete their circle.

Rejected as a nymphomaniac by her puritanical boyfriend, Emmeline escapes to Gloucester to work on her PhD thesis. From the moment she arrives, Marguerite and Beryl sense her erotic vitality and unrecognized paranormal talent. The platinum-haired beauty may well be the enchantress they have been awaiting for so long. Now they need to show Em that her prodigious libido is a gift, not a liability, and to persuade her that her destiny lies in the sea-girt town they guard, and in their arms.

Special Bonus: Also includes "Late Show", a contemporary F/F erotic romance tale about second chances.

©2018 Lisabet Sarai (P)2019 Lisabet Sarai
Literature & Fiction Romance Magic Users Witchcraft
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The perfect fantasy of feminine magic, love, and e

There was so much to love about The Witches of Gloucester that I hardly know where to begin. Actually, I guess I do. Before I get to the wonderful story and characters created by Lisabet Sarai, I have to say a few words about Lorraine Walters, who made them come alive in the audiobook version. Walters tells the story beautifully, from her pacing to her tone, and imbues each personality with a voice. I often struggle to lose myself in a narrator's voice, but here it felt natural.

As for the always lovely Lisabet Sarai, she has crafted the perfect fantasy of feminine magic, love, and empowerment. Marguerite and Beryl, the witches who watch over the ocean-side town just 20 miles away from infamous Salem, are just wonderful. They are bold, happy, confident women, as closely attuned to the tides of nature as they are to those of the heart. They are a bit mysterious, and can be almost frighteningly assertive when the situation calls for it, but they are genuinely warm and funny.

Emmeline is the much younger woman who comes to their attention, not just a delectable plaything for their Sapphic amusement, but potentially the missing third to their witch's circle. She is so beautifully written that watching her give herself unto her power is almost as delightful as watching her give herself unto her loving teachers. As much as magic and destiny play a part here, this is not a tale of insta-love and insta-lust. Emmeline doubts herself, fears her power, and fights her own arousal, afraid to trust in its truths. Even after her first passionate evening with Marguerite and Beryl, she still struggles to understand her place in this new world.

What struck me most about the story, however, is the way in which Sarai makes Gloucester a part of the story. This is a story that is sprinkled with the language of the ocean, and drenched in imagery of water. Waves, tides, peaks . . . swimming, floating, drowning . . . everything that happens does so in proximity to either the language of water or the setting of the ocean. I cannot count how many times I surfaced from the story to marvel over a turn of phrase or just luxuriate in a particular image. It is a book where the telling of the story is as beautiful as the story itself.

The Witches of Gloucester is just about everything I could have asked of a fantasy about lesbian witches. It has characters to love, a setting that you can see and smell, magic that crackles upon the page, and an eroticism that resonates deep within heart, soul, and body. I would gladly read a massive doorstop of a novel about these women, and do hope Sarai crosses their circle again.

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amazing

I received this book for free for a honest review. This book held my attention and it flowed very well. I loved the strong women characters and how they supported each other. The narrator did a great job of bringing the characters to life. reccomend

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Delectable, Magical Sapphic Erotica, but...

I received a free copy of this book in return for an honest review, and I enjoyed the book very much!
First of all, the narrator's voice is absolutely mesmerizing. Her diction is brilliant, and her voices is so beautiful that it almost calms me enough to put me to sleep, except that I'd much rather stay awake to hear every word she says. Strongly recommended, amazing work.
I love the characters in this story and the way they are so swiftly and clearly developed and established. My problem with a lot of erotica is that it's all sex and no character, but this story does not have that problem. All three of the protagonists are beautifully defined and deeply appealing, and I'd happily read more about them.
The sex scenes itself (and this story is primarily sex scenes) are evocative without being crude, lovely and loving and almost worshipful, and that's truly magnificent.
HOWEVER (yeah, you knew it was coming), I would have preferred a little more clear, enthusiastic consent from all partners in this story. There are a few moments where one of the witches does not give enthusiastic consent, and where she just ends up going along with it once it's happening, and that's not for me. That's the reason I'm giving four stars instead of five.

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