Lady Azulina's Reviews > Stitching Palms

This has been a special read for me and I’m not really sure if I’m even supposed to let you all know this, but I’m able to write all of this thanks to my Ritual Income’s review. A bit of backstory: I found B.L. Brown’s Ritual Income in BookSirens; I read it, I loved it, I wrote a review (it’s, in fact, four lines down ↓). A little while ago, B.L. Brown herself texted me through Instagram because she felt touched by how I saw Diego, and as I am a native Spanish speaker, like Diego, she asked me to be a sensitivity reader for this book.

Of course I said yes! That’s mostly why we’re here after all, heheh Glad I did.

Seeing the world through Diego’s glasses is both heartbreaking and beautiful. In the first book, he was only Milla’s ‘uncle’, Milla’s support, half Milla’s boss half Milla’s coworker. I think you got it, everything around Milla. He here recovered his autonomy, who he was. He took off the layers he was under since he got back and dusted off the ones that always were his but didn’t have enough time to even look at with everything that was happening. (Which is A LOT, go read Ritual Income if you haven’t yet.)

But that’s not even remotely all of it. While doing so, he also found love. And you all- well, to the ones following me at least, should know by now what of a sucker I am for love stories. And this one is of the kind that goes over barriers, wanting to get out of the way everything that could put the relationship at risk, because there’s nothing stronger than what the persons within are feeling for each other. Not gonna lie, I was on my toes because I was expecting a second Ritual Income, a whole plot twist that could put all of it in jeopardy, but the longer I read, the less I found it, ‘cause it didn’t exist! My queers were safe!

Uh, well… kinda.

Something that I should have expected, knowing who Diego is, was the historical setting. I’m proudly ashamed to say that it was a delightful surprise. If you’re into knowing about the Spanish Inquisition with witches, you should give this a try; it won’t go into a lot of details of everything at the time of the Inquisition because that was, like, five hundred years ago by the time of the story, but- uh. That’s the most spoiler I’m allowing myself to give, hahah

So, yeah, even though this is a second installment and you will get something of the like of our main character’s introduction if you read Ritual Income, I found this book rather separated from Milla’s story (no matter how much we tried to contact her, heh, I was laughing my life out knowing why she couldn’t, but B.L. Brown was the last one to laugh, leaving me baffled by not knowing and desperately wanting to understand what the hell was that disaster in the end).

I always knew I was into witches, but this side is one that’s only surprising me with each step taken. I’m sure as hell I don’t wanna miss anything nor from the Witches of C.R.O.W. nor from the Witch of the Demesne series, and there are already a few books I want to get my hands into (and one of them hasn’t even come out yet).