Book Review: Book of Shadows by Cate Tiernan

Book of Shadows (Sweep Series, #1) by Cate Tiernan

Blurb:

Something is happening to me that I don't understand.

I see things, feel things in a new way. I can do things normal people can't do. Powerful things. Magical things. It scares me.

I never chose to learn witchcraft. But I'm starting to wonder if witchcraft is choosing me.

My Review:

This is my 3rd reread of the Sweep Series and I still love Book of Shadows as much as I did the first time I read it. 

It's an easy book to get through, and in a way it's like stepping back into a teenage time of the past since this book was published when I was 8. It's such a contrast between the way Morgan's parents acted about her interest in Wicca then and how uninterested parents would be in 2018. Also in the way people act with Morgan's aunt being a lesbian and how open things are now. 

You have to remember this book is fiction. Yes, while this book/series has a lot of info about Wicca and always serves to renew my Wiccan beliefs, it's still a fiction book and details have been invented by the author. I think some readers forget that. 

Honestly, I think this series is so underrated and I wish more people knew about it. 

My Rating:

🌟🌟🌟🌟

4 of 5 Stars!

"Waiting On" Wednesday: Escaping from Houdini by Kerri Maniscalco

Waiting on Wednesday is a tag created by Jill @ Breaking the Spine several years ago. This fun feature allows us to showcase upcoming book releases that we’re excited to read! This week I’m sharing my excitement for the third book in the Stalking Jack the Ripper Series by Kerri Maniscalco, ESCAPING FROM HOUDINI! This series follows Audrey Rose Wadsworth, a girl in Victorian England who'd rather investigate murders and do autopsies alongside her uncle and her excruciating partner, Thomas Cresswell than act how a proper young lady of highborn British society should act. I've loved this series since the beginning, Audrey Rose is the picture of a strong female lead and Maniscalco is fantastic at world-building - you feel as if you've stepped into late nineteenth-century England and Romania - and her descriptions of medical and forensic procedure is well detailed. Unfortunately I didn't get an ARC this time so I am so, so, so excited to finally read Escaping from Houdini!!!!

Escaping from Houdini by Kerri Maniscalco

Series: Stalking Jack the Ripper

Published by: Jimmy Patterson

Genres: Young Adult - Historical Fiction, Mystery, Romance

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In this third installment in the #1 bestselling Stalking Jack the Ripper series, a luxurious ocean liner becomes a floating prison of scandal, madness, and horror when passengers are murdered one by one…with nowhere to run from the killer. .

Audrey Rose Wadsworth and her partner-in-crime-investigation, Thomas Cresswell, are en route to New York to help solve another blood-soaked mystery. Embarking on a week-long voyage across the Atlantic on the opulent RMS Etruria, they’re delighted to discover a traveling troupe of circus performers, fortune tellers, and a certain charismatic young escape artist entertaining the first-class passengers nightly.

But then, privileged young women begin to go missing without explanation, and a series of brutal slayings shocks the entire ship. The strange and disturbing influence of the Moonlight Carnival pervades the decks as the murders grow ever more freakish, with nowhere to escape except the unforgiving sea. It’s up to Audrey Rose and Thomas to piece together the gruesome investigation as even more passengers die before reaching their destination. But with clues to the next victim pointing to someone she loves, can Audrey Rose unravel the mystery before the killer’s horrifying finale?

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Have you read the Stalking Jack the Ripper Series? What do you think of it? If you haven't, do you want to?