Language: PG-13 (35 swears, 0 ‘f’); Mature Content: G; Violence: PG (possession, fighting)
BUYING ADVISORY: MS, HS - ESSENTIAL
AUDIENCE APPEAL: AVERAGE
Elodie is happy to leave her abusive stepfather behind, but bereft at leaving her mother and half-siblings. But she has had an offer to work at Black Oak cottage outside a far off village. The journey has its own dangers, but what awaits her is even more so – Aleida is the latest of the Blackbone witches. She has just defeated her evil mentor and is hurt. Elodie tries her best to nurse Aleida back to health, befriending a nearby farm family and a mysterious boy who lives in the forest around the cottage and village. But just because the evil Gyssha is dead, doesn’t mean she won’t keep trying to possess whomever she needs in order to live again. And while Aleisha doesn’t want to be as evil as Gyssha, doesn’t mean that she will be beloved by the normal humans around her.
I let this one sit for too long until I finally read it – there is a second book out and I am looking forward to reading it too. It is no more “witchy” than Vespertine by Margaret Rogerson. A good fight between good and evil - but also a fight with the possible evil inside us.
Cindy, Library Teacher, MLS
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