Publisher: Harlequin Trade Publishing
Release Date: February 1st 2022
Rating: ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
While I was excited about the premise, this book was a bit of a mixed-bag for me.
I really liked some aspects of the story. Digging into New England history, witches, Salem and women ditching their loser boyfriends. Some of the narrative was interesting and the writing itself was solid providing vivid imagery and a definite sense of the setting.
That said, I found the characters to be uninspiring. I didn’t feel like the reader ever really got to know the characters, and the motivations for their actions seemed more like fodder to progress the narrative than organic parts of the story. The clues dropped along the way wrap up very fast, and not very neatly, given the time it takes for Augusta to piece them all together. Lots of coincidental events and hand waving away the impact the supernatural occurrence would have on the characters real, modern lives make it hard to swallow even with the healthy suspension of disbelief that such books require.
All together, good idea, but the book felt shallow and rushed.
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