📖 BOOK REVIEW⠀📚
BOOK: Mayhem
AUTHOR: Estelle Laure
@estellelaurebooks
Publisher: Wednesday Books @wednesdaybooks
Stars: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Published: July 14, 2020
This book wasn’t really what I expected. Actually, I am not sure what i expected. It reminds me a lot about movies in the 90s, especially Practical Magic. A girl and her mom return to the home they left. The girl discovers she comes from a family of witches, kind of.
So basically, this is a hard plot to explain. But it is about family, discovering yourself, and decisions in your life. Mayhem and her mother are running from abuse, but how does that abuse shape their current view upon returning home?
My critique of this book is really that the ending wasn’t as satisfying as I wanted it to be. I felt like it kind of wrapped up, but there was an uneasiness to it that I can’t describe.
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Small Summary:
A YA feminist mash up inspired by The Lost Boys and The Craft.
It’s 1987 and unfortunately it’s not all Madonna and cherry lip balm. Mayhem Brayburn has always known there was something off about her and her mother, Roxy. Maybe it has to do with Roxy’s constant physical pain, or maybe with Mayhem’s own irresistible pull to water. Either way, she knows they aren’t like everyone else. But when May’s stepfather finally goes too far, Roxy and Mayhem flee to Santa Maria, California, the coastal beach town that holds the answers to all of Mayhem’s questions about who her mother is, her estranged family, and the mysteries of her own self. There she meets the kids who live with her aunt, and it opens the door to the magic that runs through the female lineage in her family, the very magic Mayhem is next in line to inherit and which will change her life for good. But when she gets wrapped up in the search for the man who has been kidnapping girls from the beach, her life takes another dangerous turn and she is forced to face the price of vigilante justice and to ask herself whether revenge is worth the cost.
*****
I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own. Received from Netgalley.