In the Company of Witches by Joey W. Hill

Lily Ivory, the protagonist in Juliet Blackwell’s Witchcraft Mystery series, is a hereditary witch of Aztec, Mexican and European descent. Hearts of Chaos by Kira Brady includes Norse, Native American and Sumerian mythologies. Keven Hearne’s The Iron Druid Chronicles is a good example. In all fairness, there are some fantasy novels and series out there which deal with other-than-Christian mythologies. Maybe a nice sword-and-sandal epic centered around a Roman lamia, or a good science-fantasy set on a world colonized by Wiccans. I want to read an urban fantasy about an inyanga in modern-day Johannesburg. I want to read a dark fantasy starring a kitsune-tsuki in Occupied Japan. I want to read a good fantasy (epic, dark, urban, whatever) starring an awesome, amazing witch that is based on some mythology other than that of a pseudo-Christianity.* I want to read an epic fantasy about a nahualli set in a magical Aztec Empire. And, in the middle of that mix is a witch or two or three, boldly fighting on the side of Good, occasionally falling into bed with a super-sexy angel or demon. One supreme, omnipresent, omniscient God hosts of angels hordes of demons and (sometimes) Lucifer. Unfortunately - here comes the rant - the overwhelming majority of fantasy out there is based on a pseudo-Christian cosmology. Ethically ambiguous characters often make the most interesting protagonists.) (Not that the witch has to be good, just the story. I especially enjoy a good witch story: powerful, kick-butt women are awesome. There’s nothing quite like escaping into an exciting, terrifying world of monsters and warriors and wild Gods. While I read almost every genre of fiction, I tend to read more fantasy and science fiction than any other type. But I feel the need to rant.įirst, a bit of background. I prefer to praise and celebrate and point people in the direction of excellent literature (or at least entertaining literature).

In the Company of Witches by Joey W. Hill