If you put The Crucible and Lord of the Flies in a blender, you would get a tantalizing potion that resembles The Grace Year.

In another life, girls are sent into the wilderness for their Grace Year - the year that they must embrace their toxic magic and use up every wicked drop before returning home to become either a docile housewife or laborer. It's every girl for herself, and only the cunning and brave will survive.

Sixteen year old Tierney has seen her two older sisters return from the Grace Year. Now it's her turn to be exiled to the wilderness. During The Veiling Day ceremony, a boy claims her as his wife, but only if she returns. That's if her female peers don't kill her or the terrifying poachers don't rip her limbs apart for her valuable magic, to be sold on the black market.

If she escapes or her body is unaccounted for, her two younger sisters will be the ones to bear her punishment. The grace year is anything but graceful.

A bewitching thriller that will mesmerize and capture the imaginations of feminists the world over. I urge everyone to read this book. The Grace Year might have an other-worldly setting, but it's magic is oh so real.