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A Lullaby for Witches
by Hester Fox
I've searched far and wide for a book such as this one. Even though Halloween has come and gone, this chilly mystery brought me back into that spooky mood. The writing style was very easy to read and it set the atmosphere to an eerie calm that precedes a witchy storm.
The side characters were a bit one dimensional (I appreciated the fact that Augusta had one such remark at one point), some twists of the story were a bit too plot convenient but aside from this I cannot come up with anything bad about this book.
The 2 ends of this story, the present and the past, are linked by 2 women who live in different centuries, in total different circumstances. At first, one would think the modern way of living has nothing to do with the way people did it 150 years ago. But, aren't people inherently the same? Maybe, the environment and the social structure have changed, but the same fears that transcend ages will arise in people hundreds of years apart.
Both Augusta and Margaret have a burning desire for life, but first they must escape their personal mazes made out of insecurities and questions of self worth. Margaret lives in a community that values social status above all else, where women are bound to depend on men. Augusta has something Margaret was, unfortunately, denied of: independence. Whereas nowadays we tend to view ourselves as individuals rather than representatives of a family, in Margaret's day her every word and every move was related directly to her family.
I found it fascinating how both main characters had somehow related dilemmas: Augusta found herself stuck into complacency while Margaret was trying to escape it. Ultimately, this is what brings them together: a leap of faith. One with a positive outcome and the other with a not-so-positive outcome that in the end blend together to end this book with a bang.
Quite charming book that can be easily read in one day and I will be definitely recommending it from now on.
The side characters were a bit one dimensional (I appreciated the fact that Augusta had one such remark at one point), some twists of the story were a bit too plot convenient
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(how cool that Leo's mother is a witch too!)The 2 ends of this story, the present and the past, are linked by 2 women who live in different centuries, in total different circumstances. At first, one would think the modern way of living has nothing to do with the way people did it 150 years ago. But, aren't people inherently the same? Maybe, the environment and the social structure have changed, but the same fears that transcend ages will arise in people hundreds of years apart.
Both Augusta and Margaret have a burning desire for life, but first they must escape their personal mazes made out of insecurities and questions of self worth. Margaret lives in a community that values social status above all else, where women are bound to depend on men. Augusta has something Margaret was, unfortunately, denied of: independence. Whereas nowadays we tend to view ourselves as individuals rather than representatives of a family, in Margaret's day her every word and every move was related directly to her family.
I found it fascinating how both main characters had somehow related dilemmas: Augusta found herself stuck into complacency while Margaret was trying to escape it. Ultimately, this is what brings them together: a leap of faith. One with a positive outcome and the other with a not-so-positive outcome that in the end blend together to end this book with a bang.
Quite charming book that can be easily read in one day and I will be definitely recommending it from now on.