abigailbat 's review for:

Wicked Girls by Stephanie Hemphill

3.0

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This novel in verse brings the Salem Witch Trials to life through the eyes of three of the afflicted girls. There's little miss queen bee Ann Putnam, the beautiful orphan Mercy Lewis, and Margaret Walcott who pines after Isaac Farrar. With its subject matter and verse format, this fictionalized account has a lot of teen appeal. An author's note is included (yay!). The novel's told from three perspectives and I had trouble telling each voice apart. Also, I'm not an expert, but I may have caught a historical inaccuracy - bloomers are referred to more than once throughout the book, but "bloomers" did not exist (at least they weren't called such) until the 1850s, I believe. Not a huge deal, maybe, but where there's one there could be more...

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