📖 BOOK REVIEW⠀📚The Book of Magic
AUTHOR: Alice Hoffman @ahoffmanwriter
Publisher: Simon Schuster @simonandschuster
Stars: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ + 🐰
Published: October 12, 2021
The Review 📚 The Book of Magic
✨ The Title/Cover Draw:
- Having read Practical Magic and Magic Lessons, I had to pick up this book. Thanks to Simon and Schuster for sending it to me to read ahead of publication.
💜 What I liked:
- The story wraps up the Practical magic storyline nicely, weaving the 4 books in the series seamlessly. One thing I love about Alice Hoffman’s writing is her ability to just take you to any place and just let you breathe into the story.
😱 What I didn’t like:
- I only didn’t like that this was the end.
🚦 My face at the end: 🥰
💭 5 Reasons to Read:
- 1. Story of love
- 2. Magic
- 3. Beautiful descriptions
- 4. Calm writing style
- 5. Female Empowerment
🕧 Mini-Summary:
- When Kylie sets off to break the Owens curse to save the man she loves, the rest of the family travels to find her. Everyone finds themselves at the beginning of Maria and Hannah’s journey in England.
I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.
📘 Summary 📚 The Book of Magic
Master storyteller Alice Hoffman brings us the conclusion of the Practical Magic series in a spellbinding and enchanting final Owens novel brimming with lyric beauty and vivid characters.
The Owens family has been cursed in matters of love for over three-hundred years but all of that is about to change. The novel begins in a library, the best place for a story to be conjured, when beloved aunt Jet Owens hears the deathwatch beetle and knows she has only seven days to live. Jet is not the only one in danger—the curse is already at work.
A frantic attempt to save a young man’s life spurs three generations of the Owens women, and one long-lost brother, to use their unusual gifts to break the curse as they travel from Paris to London to the English countryside where their ancestor Maria Owens first practiced the Unnamed Art. The younger generation discovers secrets that have been hidden from them in matters of both magic and love by Sally, their fiercely protective mother. As Kylie Owens uncovers the truth about who she is and what her own dark powers are, her aunt Franny comes to understand that she is ready to sacrifice everything for her family, and Sally Owens realizes that she is willing to give up everything for love.
The Book of Magic is a breathtaking conclusion that celebrates mothers and daughters, sisters and brothers, and anyone who has ever been in love.