The aunts have clearly been partners for a long time, and it's a cozy relationship with room for a child who desperately needs family, friends, and home. A note describes the author/illustrator's use of purple and blue pencils as sketching tools (with digital inking and coloring), and those shades are effective in evoking the mystery of a curious home with untold secrets that will help heal this emotionally bruised girl. Understanding and harnessing her strengths is about far more than magic, however, and that's the gentle nudge of this graphic novel: whatever one's talents, it's important to stay humble about them and use them for good. Indeed, these are witchy women with impressive powers, and Effie herself might have some awakening abilities. Her mom has recently died, but soon Effie is right at home with her two elderly aunts, who are absolutely more than the herbalists they claim to be.
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