Genre: Fantasy / Romance / Historical
Book Type: Combination Audio and Physical
Author: Alice Hoffman
Narrator: Christina Moore
Pages / Length: 286 pages / 9 hours and 12 minutes
Publisher: Berkley; Reissue edition (August 5, 2003) / Simon & Schuster Audio
Book Description:
For more than two hundred years, the Owens women have been blamed for everything that has gone wrong in their Massachusetts town. Gillian and Sally have endured that fate as well: as children, the sisters were forever outsiders, taunted, talked about, pointed at. Their elderly aunts almost seemed to encourage the whispers of witchery, with their musty house and their exotic concoctions and their crowd of black cats. But all Gillian and Sally wanted was to escape. One will do so by marrying, the other by running away. But the bonds they share will bring them back—almost as if by magic…
Thoughts:
This is a hard one to review because it felt like a completely different author wrote this book!
This is the story of Gillian and Sally growing into adulthood, along with Sally’s daughters. This is a story on sisterhood, family, love, loss and acceptance. Gillian attempts to run away from her family, only to find out, they are exactly the ones who she needs. This story had a bit of unbelievability to it that the first two didn’t have, but I enjoyed the humor and sisterly bond that the story had.
This book moved faster than the other ones, but I found it was lacking the beautiful writing style and outlook on love and curses that the Magic Lessons and The Rules of Magic had. While I still enjoyed the story, I felt it was missing a bit of the depth. Overall, it was still a good book as I have come to love the Owens Family. I’m sad there is only one more book to this series, as these have been such beautiful stories on love and family.
Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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