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In any event, Luna takes Clover to the island to find out the true reason for the events of 1998 and why Clover hasn’t aged. When single mother Liv is commissioned to paint a mural in a 100-year-old lighthouse on a remote Scottish island, it's an opportunity to start over with her three daughters--Luna, Sapphire, and Clover. Elements of folklore, superstition, and love that extends through generations all come together to create a both classic and modern tale of witchcraft that keeps the pages turning. Clover is the sister she remembers–except she’s still seven years old, the age she was when she vanished. As you can tell, there’s a lot of plots in this book, but it is also stuffed to the gills with atmosphere.
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My only slight hesitation is that a major part of the storyline comes a bit too close to the Netflix series “Dark. The three timelines gave this story the feel of being spliced together with gaps, rather than cohesive and complete. The stories are grisly but so are the stories of what happens to the wildlings, inhuman creatures who made a pact with the long ago witches to make their aggressors pay for what they have done to the women accused of witchcraft. Where it could have worked a little better for me was in making the characters, especially Liv, seem more realistic.This story is told, primarily, in two timelines of 1998 and 2021, with a third timeline of 1662 mingled into some of the chapters. I want to thank the publisher for providing me with a free copy through NetGalley for an honest review! I quite like the paranormal angle of the story and I did guess right what was going on towards the end, not that hard to figure it out.
The Lighthouse Witches by C. J. Cooke: 9780593334232
If you want to read a ghoulish and chilling book for spooky month, then look no further than the Lighthouse Witches. The lighthouse is built over the site of the prison where woman accused of being witches were imprisoned and tortured until they confessed their sins and were executed.I enjoyed learning what a Bothy is (a basic shelter in remote mountainous areas of Scotland, usually left unlocked and available for anyone to use free of charge) and the Mareel Seas (Milky Seas-a luminous phenomenon in which large areas of the seawater glow blue-bright enough at night to be visible from satellites orbiting the Earth-please Google them both- they are gorgeous! Told in dual timelines, The Ghost Woods follows two young, pregnant women’s time at Lichen Hall; an remote gothic manor in the woods that serves as a safe haven for unwed women to give birth and potentially offer up their new-borns for adoption.
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