With this book, I've now read all of Grady Hendrix's novels (I still need to get to his non-fiction book and short stories). I need to decide which one is my absolute favorite, but for now, my ranking looks something like this:6. *We Sold Our Souls*5. *Horrorstör*4. *The Final Girl Support Group*3. *Witchcraft for Wayward Girls*2. *The Exorcism of My Best Friend*1. *The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires* / *How to Sell a Haunted House*. I'm adding *Witchcraft for Lost Girls* to thi...

4.5 stars! I love love LOVED IT. New favorite Grady Hendrix book. "Witchcraft for Lost Girls" is officially my new favorite Grady Hendrix book!

I got to read an early copy of "Witchcraft for Lost Girls" by Grady Hendrix, and I absolutely loved it. Seriously, this book is amazing!

Teenage pregnant girls suffering for 500 pages—that’s it. That’s the whole damn book.I never DNF books. No matter how bad a book is, I push through and finish. But this one? I kept wanting to put it down. Over and over again, I’d think, “Why am I even reading this?” It was such a frustrating and underwhelming experience that I’m genuinely annoyed I even finished it.We're only in the first month of the year, yet this will definitely be in my worst top 5 books this year, if not of all time...The s...

2025 just started, and I think I might have just read my favorite book of the year. Grady Hendrix NAILED IT. Here's my spoiler-free review. Title/Author: Witchcraft for Lost Girls by Grady Hendrix Page Count: 496 Publisher: Berkley Format: NetGalley ebook Other Books I Enjoyed by This Author: All of them. Affiliate Link: https://bookshop.org/a/7576/978059354... Release Date: January 14th, 2025 General Genre: Paranormal Horror, Suspense/Thriller, Historical Sub-Genre/Themes: Feminist, co...

“You can’t beg the world to do what you want. You can’t ask it nicely. You must force the world. You must bend it to your will.” Finally, a Grady Hendrix book I enjoyed almost as much as The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires!I do think the pacing could have been a bit tighter. There were definitely some slow spells (pun intended, of course), but overall, what a wonderful and empowering read. As in Southern Book Club, the real strength of this story is in the fantastic cast of cha...

It's a gutsy move for a privileged male author to dive headfirst into a story about unwed teen pregnancies and the systemic oppression of women, a topic as charged as it is deeply gendered. But Hendrix handles *Witchcraft for Lost Girls* with an allyship that feels genuine, even if you side-eye him going in. Firstly, let’s get one thing straight: this book doesn’t *just* scare you with witchcraft, gore and graphic body horror—TW: Graphic pregnancy, labour and childbirth scenes (I am SO relieved...

Heck yeah! Grady Hendrix always comes up with these books boasting fabulous titles and super intriguing blurbs, and every single time I give in and pick one up, I end up disappointed. This one, though… this one is absolutely fantastic. I've read some of the other reviews, and everyone keeps commenting on how very un-Grady Hendrix-y this particular book is, so maybe it's a fluke, but I'll take it. It's feminist and witchy and heartwarming and heartbreaking and unputdownable, and did I mention wit...

They were girls. That's what they called them in their articles and their speeches and their files: bad girls, neurotic girls, needy girls, wayward girls, selfish girls, girls with Electra complexes, girls trying to fill a void, girls who needed attention, girls with pasts, girls from broken homes, girls who needed discipline, girls desperate to fit in, girls in trouble, girls who couldn't say no. They’d been taught the devil was the worst thing in the world, but they were too young to understa...

Neva Craven is a 15-year-old unmarried, pregnant girl in 1970s Alabama. At the start of Grady Hendrix's novel, *Witchcraft for Lost Girls*, she's being taken by her father to 'stay with her aunt for the summer' – a.k.a. shipped off to Wellwood House, a home for 'wayward girls' to wait out their pregnancies, give the babies up for adoption, and then return home as if nothing ever happened. When Neva arrives, she is renamed 'Fern' (all the girls must adopt floral monikers) and told to keep persona...