I could not get into this book. The topic was interesting, but the book focused more on the author's personal experience with spirituality, which was not what I expected. There was also a lot of information compiled in the book that was hard to comprehend.

Really well written.I was fascinating learning about these women.Told in a documentary style I highly recommend.#netgalley #littlea

What an interesting and thought provoking book!
It's well researched and I loved how the author mixes her own spiritual path with the story of these women.
I loved it and I think I will reread as some parts resonated and made me reflect.
An excellent read, highly recommended.
Many thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for this ARC, all opinions are mine

"History may be written by the victors, but legend remains a free-for-all."

In An American COVENant you see that the United States of America was based not only on the belief that it could be a land of freedom, but also that it could be a land where any human could express their beliefs freely, not fearing to speak their minds aloud. But that at the end it was only a new Europe, where people had prejudices and followed the trends, where slaves were still slaves, were women still had no rights and only rich white men could speak their minds aloud.
And what this book tells us is the story of five women who were out of their times, who spoke their minds aloud not caring that they couldn't because the society would crush them down. Even so, they rose above all and got to be heard. Lucile Scott's goal is to recover their stories from the forgotten side of History and bring them back, giving them the credit they deserve. But Scott chooses these five women because she has them as her "mighty spirit companions", as she calls them.

I understand Scott's point, but I don't quite like how she exposes it. The book is a mix between those five women biographies and Lucile Scott's life experiences that brought her where she is now, being able to say that she's found her spirit companions, calling herself a witch and declaring she's a part of a coven. The latter, I practically skipped, because I couldn't find it interesting nor necessary to get to the point. If you read her life parts you'd feel like you're reading a blog post, which, honestly, this book could have been, not needing to be an actual book. But if you skip them then you'll find a gathering of biographies about five women that what they have in common is a sensitive way to understand this world –and even the other side if you believe in it–, also that they all contributed in giving the feminist movement a new approach, making it evolve and go further, and that, in spite of their stories and achievements, they were erased from History –making necessary a Herstory, giving the deserved importance to women.

What I disliked the most was the fact that it doesn't have any footnotes. I think that an essay, as what this book tries to be –though I'm not sure it is–, should be supported by lots of footnotes, not only a "Notes on sources" section at the end of the book, because in my case, yes, I saw there was that section before reading the e-book, but because it was an e-book I didn't consult it at all, because it's not handy going back and forth whenever you want to make sure that any fact comes from a reliable source. So I missed those footnotes with information.

"There's more than one way to burn a witch."

In conclusion, we should take Lucile Scott's work as a subjective essay about women, feminism and mystics in the USA, how they contributed to the evolution of their country at different times but in the same way, and also how we, as women, are united in the same fight against the patriarchy. But always remember that, even if this book doesn't explicitly talk about it, not all women and not only women bleed. We are all witches in the same coven, little by little smashing the patriarchy.

Thanks NetGalley for this ARC in exchange for an honest review.

Such an interesting read!! I'm so glad I had the chance to know this story.
I also really enjoyed the writing style.

Thanks NetGalley and Little A for the opportunity!

What a fascinating read this is! Scott has examined the lives of five American women considered mystics. You might be loosely familiar (or more) with one or more of them (Marianne Williamson and Marie Laveau were the two I knew). Scott has taken things a step further by adding context. Her personal journey is also interesting but, to be honest, less so than that of these leaders. Thanks to Netgalley for the ARC. A good and educational read.

What a delight this thoroughly researched and emotionally honest book of feminist history is! I was completely engaged by the author's personable writing style and easy way of distilling immense knowledge without feeling pedantic or slowing the pace at all. I would gladly read any other topic Lucille Scott decides to do a deep dive on; even as someone who has read about several of the figures in this book, the author still taught me something knew and graced me with a more real, flesh-and-blood portrait of these unique and historic women.

An American Covenant by Lucile Scott is written like a documentary or a textbook, which for me made it a difficult read. It is informational and interesting once you get past the writing style. Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for providing me with an ebook ARC version in exchange for an honest review.

Thank you to Netgalley for the opportunity to read and review this book.

This book is written like a documentary. I wasn’t use to this kind of book/writing so at first it was slow for me. After getting use to it, it went a lot smoother and I really enjoyed it. She was very thorough in her research. I found this book very interesting and learned things that were never taught in the history books. If this book starts out slow for you don’t give up.. Keep on reading to the end, you wont regret it. I’m looking forward to reading more books by this author.