Why I love Maud Greenleaf from Litches get Stitches

Why I love Maud Greenleaf from Litches get Stitches

(cover from amazon listing)

Maud Greenleaf is the main character of the five book series Liches get stitches. The book series follows her adventures as she goes from hedge witch to lich. She starts with just her forest and undead geese and eventually gains far more in power and territory. What makes her different from a lot of other characters and what makes me adore her is that she honestly just wants to be able to do her crafting. In someways she reminds me of Murderbot. They just want to watch tv, she just wants to craft. Both get annoyed with humans being annoying. Only her hobby includes crafting undead monsters and using people mulch in her garden.

But what really makes me love her, and the series is that she never ever feels the need to not be who she is. When she gets in a fight with another lich she embraces her crafting, using it to make traps and potion bombs that give her a decisive edge against an opponent whose strategy is just to raise bigger and scarier monsters with zero creativity. Which is why he loses. She is who she is, and never ever apologizes for it. A lesson for us all I think?

The author H.J Tolson, also does an amazing job making the outfits she wears delightfully described. One thing some fantasy authors cough Robert Jordan cough are known for is over describing what people wear to the point where some readers(aka me) start skimming because well, there’s only so many times i can get told what kind of dress someone is wearing and what colour it is before it gets boring. The enthusiasm Maud has for her outfits makes reading about them fun. Her delight at sewing and knitting became mine even though I enjoy neither of these activities, and don’t generally enjoy dresses that much.

The last thing that majorly makes me love this book series is that while Maud fully embraces and loves her terrifying creations, as do I even though both would terrify me in real life, the book gives the occasional glimpse of her work from the perspective of other people and it reminds the reader that while Maud is loveable, she’s also an undead abomination that is currently in the service of a evil/mad god.

If your wondering if you should read Liches get stitches and my above ramble wasn’t enough of a selling point here’s some quick questions to consider :
-Do you like undead things?
-Do you not mind reading about gore and such(there is a fair bit)?
-Do you think that making an undead army to conquer the world is an overrated goal for masters of necromancy?

Then this is the book for you.

Oh did I mention there’s also talking crows, a cat familiar(who actually gets his own book. Liches get scritches) and an eldritch abomination with penchant for stealing eyeballs?

(cover from amazon listing)

All 6 books are currently on kindle unlimited if you have that and want to binge them like I did.

Thanks for reading! Let me know if this sounds like a book you'd like, or if you can think of a similar book you'd recommend.