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That said, in all likeliness it'll come out and I'll decide it's too exhausting and I'm no longer interested.) The more I think about it, honestly the more I hate it. What brings you to my lair this early in the morning?” she asks without looking at me. I know this is to give the impression that she divined my presence when it’s more likely she heard the creaky board out in the hallway. You know I don’t believe in this stuff,” I say, somewhat desperately. We’re usually good at letting each other be who we are. She lets me march around being bossy and anal. I let her waft around being fanciful and disorganized.
What kept making me crazy was that in the midst of all this her friends were just as over-protective and condescending as any of the adults assisting a young first-time magic user are in any of those stories from the 80s and 90s. The situation frustrated the hell out of Emerson, and I was right there with her. You're not allowed to forget for a second that the MC is a feminist. But in the most ra-ra! way imaginable. She's insufferable, and apparently notorious for going on mini feminism rants to her friends on a regular basis. It's entirely surface-level and triggered at the oddest moments, as if a child just learned about something and they're eager to talk about it and see it in everything.
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That's not all, though: evil is lurking in the charming streets of St. Cyprian. Emerson will need to learn to control what's inside of her, remember her magic, and deal with old, complicated feelings for her childhood friend--cranky-yet-gorgeous local farmer Jacob North--to defeat an enemy that hides in the rivers and shadows of everything she loves. A banished witch, Rebekah, is brought home to help her friends, and the immortal witch Nicholas, fight against the vicious duplicitous central governing coven. It will take all the power of the self-actualizing coven of Rebekah’s sister and friends. Howsomever, the focus through the entire story is on the other big bad – that leader of the local council who memory-wiped Emerson, exiled her sister Rebekah, drove her parents out of St. Cyprian and has generally been manipulating the entire town through her coven/council for some reason that has not yet been revealed.
Making mistakes doesn’t make you worthless, Rebekah,’ my grandmother tells me, her voice as steady as her gaze. As her grip. As her love, across all these years and death besides. ‘It makes you alive.’”If you google my name—something I only do every other Tuesday because ego surfing is an indulgence and I keep my indulgences on a strict schedule—the first twenty hits are about the hanging of Sarah Emerson Wilde in 1692 in Salem, Massachusetts. stars for me. I really liked a lot of things about this book - there’s a bit of Stars Hollow, CT (a la Gilmore Girls) but make it secretly magic with witches. I love a small town setting, and I really liked the very strong friend group/found family vibe in this. My peers might have preferred Skip Simon’s bold and unlikely claims that he was a direct descendent of the outlaw Jesse James, but learning about Sarah changed my life. The reality of Sarah Emerson Wilde is that she was a fierce feminist who wanted to play by her own rules. A nonconformist who wasn’t interested in playing the perfect Puritan, and therefore a direct threat to the Powers That Be. Following her own rules, ignoring theirs, and trumpeting her independence got her killed.
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