Magic Lessons by Alice Hoffman

Magic Lessons by Alice Hoffman
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

3.5/5.0 - This prequel to Practical Magic explains the story behind Maria Owen's curse, the foster child of Hannah Owens in Essex, England who travels to Dutch Curacao, where she meets and falls in love with the father of her child, Faith. She follows him to Salem, Massachusetts, where she stands trial for and is convicted of witchcraft, and invokes a curse warning her daughters never to fall in love. Rescued by Samuel on the gallows, they travel to New York City, where she spends the next five years trying to find her daughter, who she entrusted to a Salem woman. Of course, love wins out in the end.
The story was interesting, but started slow for me. It wasn't until about halfway through that it became the page turner that I expect from an Alice Hoffman book.
Book 8 of 2020
PopSugar #12: A book you have seen on someone's bookshelf (in real life, on a Zoom call, in a TV show, etc.)


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