This was a fun book. Sneakily feminist. I liked it. Was it life altering? No. Was it a good romp? Totally. I loved many of the obscure historical references like the Egypt-mania of the turn of the last century, tansy tea, the weird obsession with seances, carrying coals in oyster shells and especially the Comstock Act.
This book will make you appreciate how far women's rights have come, holy jeeze! Perhaps the detail I appreciated the most was not a historical reference but the twist the author put on the relationship between Satan and witches. The "alliance" of witches and the devil was manufactured by demons because witches work against the evils of the world and Satan's work. So over the centuries, demons have turned people, mostly men, against them. That was a very crafty move.
I'd recommend this to people who like an entertaining piece of fiction set in the 1880's, but I would not recommend slapping it at the top of your "To Read" list.
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