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tammyhai 's review for:
Hour of the Witch
by Chris Bohjalian
I've been doing this thing where I don't read the synopses of books prior to reading them. I feel like it makes the journey as a whole more exciting because I have NO idea what's going to happen. But sometimes that means I invent plot lines that never happen. I honestly believed that Hour of the Witch was going to be a book about witches. It kind of was, but not really.
Mary Deerfield is a young woman living in puritan times, trapped in an abusive relationship and caught up in a witch hunt. Reading it now after the overturning of Roe vs. Wade felt claustrophobic, desperate and bleak. But there are moments of ingenuity, sisterhood, and goodness that brings you hope.
Chris Bohjalian succeeded in pulling me so deeply into the story, I began to refer to forks as the Devil's tines. The language can be cumbersome for some readers but I thought it was necessary and well done.
Despite my initial disappointment that the witches were not of the hocus pocus variety, I enjoyed this book and found it to be a worthy read.
Mary Deerfield is a young woman living in puritan times, trapped in an abusive relationship and caught up in a witch hunt. Reading it now after the overturning of Roe vs. Wade felt claustrophobic, desperate and bleak. But there are moments of ingenuity, sisterhood, and goodness that brings you hope.
Chris Bohjalian succeeded in pulling me so deeply into the story, I began to refer to forks as the Devil's tines. The language can be cumbersome for some readers but I thought it was necessary and well done.
Despite my initial disappointment that the witches were not of the hocus pocus variety, I enjoyed this book and found it to be a worthy read.