This is a lovely beginners guide to using the moon for magic rituals. It absolutely lays down the basics and present sit in such a magical way

Many thanks to NetGalley, Risa Dickens, Amy Torok and the publishers for letting me read this ARC.

I need to get this as a physical copy!

This book has fundamentally impacted how I think about my witchcraft. This book truly is showing us how to use our practices in our flawed current life, in a way that's anti-capitalist, pro-resistance and absolutely re-enchanting! I loved that everything is organised around the moon phases, this makes it easy to find something that fits the current phase of your life/the moon and is in my opinion an optimal way of organising information in a witchcraft book.

Do not be fooled by the beautiful cover tho, it's packed to the brim with information.

The reader gets stories and information about the moon and topics introduced by the author. Not a book that would give the reader spells or rituals, but there is one ritual at the end of each chapter.

Another gorgeous book from this duo! This book looks at each new moon of the year and pairs it with a narrative, concept, idea, and/or ritual. I love the way this book is written and how you can read it all at once or space it out over a year and read it with each new moon. This book feels like a tool for me and is a must have!

This wasn't at all what it was described as. There is a lot of very pointed history and many anecdotes and stories, and then there is some kind of witchy angle. However, it doesn't come together and it doesn't flow well.

The idea is great, but the execution wasn't what I'd hoped. There were some good things in there like the historic parts that added some extra knowledge and information behind many of the personal anecdotes. I think it might have been better to either choose witchy or everything else, or, to try and relate and combine it all in a more edited and flowing way.

An interesting, thought provoking and well thought that teach how to work with the phases of the moon and list a series of spells that i found interesting and easy to follow
Recommended.
Many thanks to the publisher for this ARC, all opinions are mine

I love moon magic and this is a lovely and informative book to help focus on magic during the new moon.

Great book and very informative. Grateful to have in my collection.

Thanks to NG and the publisher for allowing me access to this book.

Very helpful book to learn more about the Moon and how to work with it and the phases better. A lot of good information rather you are an expert or a new beginner.

Powerful. A great book about thinking about magic and how it can shape the larger economic and political world.

The title of this books seems to misrepresent the content. I was excited about reading a book about new moon magic. There were so many different stories, i didn't really find them relevant, they didn't keep my interest and i didn't find them interesting. There are some interesting historical facts. You can see the authors have lots of passion. This book was just not for me, it didn't have the magic i thought it would.

Thank you to the publisher and Netgalley for the ARC in exchange for an honest review.

I liked the idea of magic-making for each of the new moons. I was just distracted by all of the intertwining of the stories in between the magic-making. But the idea of the book was pretty nifty if I must say so. Fairly good read! I voluntarily read this book via NetGalley in exchange for my honest opinion.

I received an advanced reading copy in exchange of an honest review. Recently I've been leaning towards learning about Wicca and paganism, and because of that, any book that seems to relate to those topics even remotely is a book I'm interested in reading. What I learned while reading New Moon Magic, which I thoroughly enjoyed, is very interesting and something that I will definitely be incorporating to my life from now on. The moon is very powerful, even scientists agree, but it has this magic to it that makes it captivating.

This is a lunar magic book like no other I have read. I really appreciate it being centered in the world we live in and not…how to say this…some sort of idealized magical but essentially generic world. I have to say I like those books too, but it's nice to be surprised by something so very different. Perhaps it was pitched as a book on lunar energy, but make it progressive and fiercely, unapologetically feminist. It is important to see the historical underpinnings that we share, both as witches and as human beings, and I love that they do this in a book about moon magic.

It is very dense, which I don’t think is a bad thing, but I understand what some of the other reviewers meant. It’s not the easy reading promised in the title, New Moon Magic, but it is every word of the subtitle: Anti-Capitalist, Pro-Resistance, and I love this word: Re-enchantment. That said, after a while I had to skim a bit so I could take in the flavor of the whole thing to review it. I started w/ the new moons closest to the date. I loved that knitting featured in the discussion of the Aries moon (why do so many of us love the yarn arts??), although I have to say I don’t resonate with knives the way they do. However, I loved the next moon, the Taurus new moon and all its connection to the body. My reading speed picked up from here.

My favorite passage that was so well written was detailing Audre Lourde. If you’re familiar with her work, it’s like hearing a fresh version of a favorite song. If you’re not, it will make you put down everything and do a deep dive.

This is not obviously a book for everyone, yet I believe everyone could get a lot of this book. I am so grateful for Netgalley for making this available as I think it might have been one that would have slipped from my attention had I not read it here.

I didn't enjoy this at all. There was a lot of really interesting history which could have been interesting but it felt like it was dumped and not curated in any thoughtful manner. Very heavy content that needed to be lightened up to be received.

This is a lovely read, and something to have in hard copy. Gently interweaved with quotes and story-telling, it's a wonderful foray into a magical world.

4 stars

While I admit this isn’t really what I was expecting out of this book, I did find myself getting swept up in each chapter essay. Some areas felt overly verbose like the authors had a word count to meet, but it was at least consistent throughout. I liked that each chapter felt super focused on the topic explored, even if I sometimes felt it was a bit long. I did like that the rituals were so targeted and adaptable within each chapter. I guess I thought that this was going to be more heavy on the praxis side of things and less narrative. Though the authors are able to get their point across and make the energy of the new moon from their perspective abundantly clear to the reader.

Informative and well written but not what I was expecting and although i tried it just didn’t keep my interest

A compelling argument to fight against capitalism by engaging in lunar living. Very educational and informative but a little heavier than I was expecting. Not necessarily my style of learning about the topic and I wish there were more practical tips.

Thankyou to Netgalley, the publisher and the author for allowing me to read this ARC.
This is a useful resource to new witches.
I did find this book to be interesting.
Thankyou again.