Leslye Walton's The Price Guide to the Occult
Walton's second novel, after the word-of-mouth hit The Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender, starts off strong—it’s the story of a girl from a long line of cursed witches, with the ability to know the thoughts of plants and animals, shy, a cutter, with the requisite eccentric and underveloped best friend. So her life, and the town, is all relatively interesting. But when she discovers her straight up evil mother is basically forming a cult, the story goes completely off the rails. There are love interests and murders and family secrets and magical drama and it is all somewhat silly and the writing is . . . not subtle. It ends in a way that suggests a sequel, or maybe it just ends, who knows. I really wanted to like this but I just didn’t. B-.
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A review copy was provided by the publisher. This book is available now.
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