Book Review: The Witching Moon Manor

Book #36 for 2025: The Witching Moon Manor by Stacy Sivinski, 4/5 ★
336 pages / releases October 7, 2025 / available for pre-order here

Goodreads blurb: The Crescent Moon is thriving after a much-needed expansion, with the ladies who step through its doors continuing to seek comfort in the glimpses of their futures found in the swirls at the bottom of their teacups. …but the Quigley sisters find themselves stumbling on their chosen paths, and they are drawn back home in search of refuge in each other’s company. As Anne struggles to balance her growing responsibilities, Beatrix fears she has lost her gift for storytelling, and Violet is shaken after an accident at the circus, the future the sisters had drawn for themselves feels murkier than ever. And, when the threads of fate begin to unravel, Anne must lean on her sisters and team up with a mysterious—and oddly infuriating—necromancer to save the city from an uncertain destiny and help old friends find a happy end. ….

My review: In this sequel to The Crescent Moon Tearoom, Sivinski serves up more cozy, atmospheric fantasy at its best. While I’m generally not a fan of sequels, I have to admit that I enjoyed this one even more than the first book. The stakes are still very low and the language still very flowery (occasionally a little over the top, to be honest), but it was great to see each of the sisters more firmly on their own journeys this time. The author clearly saw how much fans of the first book enjoyed the house as a character and has leaned into that a bit too hard in my opinion, but I loved the bookshop so I’ll ignore the sentient manor. While I enjoyed the awkward progression of romance for Bea, the very obvious enemies-to-lovers plot for Anne developed far too quickly and with an underdeveloped, underwhelming partner. All in all, The Witching Moon Manor is a great choice for fans of lush settings, charming characters, and the low-stakes coziness of a magical story to whisk you away.

 

CW: various loss prior to story
Thank you to Atria Books and NetGalley for providing me an ARC of this book in exchange for my honest review.