Some details of the school life, especially with respect to bullying and peer pressure, are very well written.

This book has a healthy balance of friendship and romance which I LOVE! The coven is so much fun to read about! I love Rowan the most. She's a perfect friend for Anna and I never got tired of her scenes. She always do the most unthinkable things and say everything on her mind. While I do love to read about the romance, I'm an Attis hoe the friendship arc in this book gave me so much joy. Thank you so much to NetGalley and Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, for granting my wish to read this book. I really loved the atmosphere and setting of this book. It felt very reminiscent of A Series of Unfortunate Events, in the way that the kids in this book seem to be facing their problems alone, with no help from the adults. It felt like classic British children's literature (think Harry Potter and Matilda) but for a YA audience. The mysteries were very intriguing and kept me reading. I really loved the friendship aspect. As someone who was very lonely and isolated through my own childhood, I really related to the way Anna was always putting herself down and fearful that she was hurting or inconveniencing her new friends. This book at times felt a little too dark for a typical YA audience; there's obviously abuse here, many sexual situations, language throughout, and some very convincing witchcraft rituals. If you're buying this for your kid, don't expect it to be just like Harry Potter, because it isn't. Anna has grown up waiting on the day she can be bound by the Binders. Anna is sixteen and she's spent years keeping out of everyone's way. She's from a family of witches from the Binders sect who believed magic is evil. Anna's aunt is determined to get Anna's magic bound. But when Anna gets the chance to join a coven, she cannot resist. The plotline is interesting with the mystery of the faceless women, Anna's parents deaths and the girl witches that befriend Anna. This story has me guessing to the end. The pace was slow in places but the ending made up for it all.

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Whether you join us with colleagues, friends or family, we’ve got the perfect ingredients for a perfect Christmas… THREADNEEDLE had me spellbound – a luminous, captivating fantasy that left me longing to return to Thomas’s vividly imagined magical world. With teen witches, hidden libraries, secrets and lies, it’s a dream of a book, and I loved it.’ Este libro es el inicio de una saga, así como la primera novela de su autora. En él se nos cuenta cómo Anna, una huérfana que vive con su tía, se ha criado bajo una educación y unos preceptos muy estrictos. Ello se debe a que su madre fue asesinada por su pareja, la cual se quitó la vida posteriormente. Desde entonces, su tía considera la magia y el amor como algo malo y sumamente peligroso y, por ello, somete a su sobrina a una constante vigilancia, llegando a extremos insospechados. (Os vais a quedar ojiplátic@s, de verdad).

Fans of HARRY POTTER, here’s another series that is gonna blow your effing mind, make you squeal with joy, and go into raptures with the reading experience. The binders are a sort of cult in my opinion but the way different covens are referred to in the story are as “groves” with each grove practicing their own distinct “language” of magic of which there are literally infinite numbers of (for example potions, plants etc) The type of magic practiced by Aunt is knot magic and this is what she teaches Anna, using these knots to tie up emotion and keep them under control.The ending was almost too convenient in some aspects and a bit ridiculous in others. I am not a fan of how things ended so openly and sadly it hasn't enticed me enough to continue the next book.