Thanks to Netgalley for providing me with a galley of this book. This book is now on sale. I am highly against the genre that this is for. I strongly suggest that kids DO NOT READ THIS!!! There is a very sexual erotic scene that involves two characters and it is not PG13. It is very XXX.
This is the first book that I have ever read from P.C. Cast and Kristen Cast. They have also co-written the House of Night series which I don't think you need to have read before this one. I was not confused by anything and I pretty much got the gist of the magic by the information given. I ended up giving this book a 3 out of 5. I enjoyed the historical fiction with the Salem witch trials and the origin of the Goode Family.
We follow two twin sister named Mercy and Hunter. They are celebrating their 16th birthday and they are the present day witches from a long line of Goode witches. The original witch was Sarah Goode and she was jailed and sentenced to execution for being a witch. She escapes and follows ley lines to a rural town in Indiana and makes it a safe space. She also plants 5 foreign trees to guard gates to foreign underworlds. The gates form a pentagram. On the day of the girls 16th birthday, they are committing to their chosen goddess and god. Then while they are setting their intentions, something happens and their mother sacrifices herself to save her daughters.
The rest of the story is them trying to save the trees and figure out what kind of monster came out of one of the trees. I enjoyed the origin story, the inclusion of mythology and the witch and spells. I hated all of the characters except the cat Xena. She was the best and really made me keep swiping through the pages.
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