Being a Witch and Other Things I Didn't Ask for (Historicalnovelsociety.Org/Reviews/Ratchet-The-Rel)

Being a Witch and Other Things I Didnt Ask For is a Young Adult time-slip novel about an emotionally wounded fourteen-year-old foster girl who runs away not knowing shes a witch. Its a rollercoaster plot with gorgeous historical detail and fabulous characters...Magical. The Sun London.Rachel (who prefers the nickname Raya) leaves her bland existence in a small village for the excitement of life on her own in London. But it turns out not only is she a witch she also has this annoying ability to time travel by accident. After the other kid at her last foster placement the eleven-year-old Jake secretly follows her to London she inadvertently flings herself back to the 1645 English Essex Witch Trials along with a sarcastic witchs cat Oscar. They are soon recognised as too different and thrown into prison for witchcrafte by the notorious Matthew Hopkins Witchfinder General along with other historic victims.Rayas social worker and witch mentor Bryony goes back to try to save them from the gallows. But returning to present day London remains out of reach. With Rayas powers still out of control they find themselves in 1645 Istanbul/Constantinople. There life is more amazing than she ever dreamed. Can she stay? And at what cost?