Remember, November by Cameron Darrow

Author: Cameron Darrow

Genre: Fantasy

Tropes: Found Family, Friends to Lovers, Witch / Mage

Series: From the Ashes of Victory #1

Pages: 386

Published: January 12th, 2018

Format: ebook (KU)

Started: 01-05-2025

Finished: 01-30-2025

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synopsis

From the ashes of Allied victory, a group of witches will forge for themselves something altogether new in a time when women aren’t even allowed to vote. Or love one another.

Christmas, 1918. The Great War is over, and according to all the newspapers, Britain won. But for Millie Brown and her sister witches, it doesn’t feel like it. Brought together to try to end the war more quickly with magic, their failure could mean the disbanding of their budding coven and the overturning of lives already shattered by war and hardship.
It could also mean the beguiling French witch Elise Cotillard being sent back to France before Millie can work up the courage to tell her how she truly feels.

But when Millie’s best friend goes missing, she’ll have to find a lot more than just her courage. For when she turns up with powers unheard of in the history of witchcraft but no memory of who she is, bringing her home becomes Millie’s last, best chance at keeping her chosen family together.

And alive.

With no memory of her past, the woman who knows herself only as November has no idea why it has come back to try to kill her. The sudden manifestation of a power she can’t understand and barely control makes it all the more urgent, for the sake of everyone around her as much as herself.

  • This book grew on me the more I read it
  • It took me a while to get into this book bc I found the writing style to be kind of weird in the beginning ‐ idk if I just like couldn’t read when I first picked this up but the more I got into the story the better I was able to understand?? the writing style ‐ I think because this book takes place in England and 100+ years in the past I kind of struggled to understand some of the figurative language plus the way she structures her sentences can be weird at times making me have to go over it over and over again 
  • The characters in this were extremely loveable Millie is just everything and so is Elise and Victoria ‐ I love stories about best friends fighting evil together it hits every time
  • The plot / mystery element in this was done perfectly the explanation of why Victoria ended up w/ amnesia was devastating ‐ it was paced very well plot twists / points happened at just the right time 
  • I also liked that all the relationships in this are established ‐ they’ve been w/ ADAM and their mentors for years by the time the story starts and I just love when characters have a connection before the book actually starts ‐ maybe in the future we’ll get more about their first years together 
  • I actually hated the formatting of this ‐ there were no chapter it’s separated by years so part 1 was like 300 pages and part 2 was 100ish idk I didn’t like it but I would just stop at a POV changes if I needed too ‐ it just felt lazy to me
  • Predictions: They learn how to properly use their manifests ‐ Victoria has flashback from her past at ADAM ‐ they somehow stop WW2 
  • Would read again if the rest of the series is good
  • Millie’s POV of Christmas morning 
  • Millie confessing her feelings to Elise 
  • Victoria getting her memories back 
  • All three manifesting (especially Elise)
  • That girl power ending bc fuck men 
  • Beating up men bc they deserve it period
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