I wasn’t completely flabbergasted by the twist, but I personally like when I can guess a twist a few scenes before the reveal, which was what happened in this case. I’d like to keep this spoiler free, so I’ll refrain from revealing the twist. I was instantly curious about his character and backstory, which did not let me down when the mystery was unraveled. It was interesting to see an outsider come into this small town, and there were fun interactions between him and the main character, Penny. That being said, I wanted more paranormal happenings and weird occurrences. Pretty much all of the ritual that surrounds “Swan Season” was imaginative and fun, down to the eerie song that announces the start of it. There were really well thought out elements. I love that the book features chapters that flash to the past and the origin story of the Swan Sisters, as it pulls you into the legends that built the town of Sparrow. I loved the lore that is very well developed in this book. I selected to read this book in October as a fun witchy read for spooky season. In this spoiler-free review, let’s start about what I really liked about this book. The fact that I couldn’t easily pin-point what didn’t gel right away is why this book isn’t rated lower for me. When I don’t feel compelled to plow through a story, I know that there’s something that just doesn’t gel. To start, I began reading this book, got a hundred pages in, paused to read some other books, then only picked it up because it was due back at the library. A number of people recommended reading this, and so it was a little disappointing that it doesn’t quite live up to the hype. I give this book a 3 out of 5 stars, and truly the book sits very much in the middle for me. And she will be forced to choose: save Bo, or save herself. And death comes swiftly to those who cannot resist the call of the sisters.īut only Penny sees what others cannot. Penny and Bo suspect each other of hiding secrets. The townspeople turn against one another.
Mistrust and lies spread quickly through the salty, rain-soaked streets. But this year, on the eve of the sisters’ return, a boy named Bo Carter arrives unaware of the danger he has just stumbled into. Like many locals, seventeen-year-old Penny Talbot has accepted the fate of the town. Now, for a brief time each summer, the sisters return, stealing the bodies of three weak-hearted girls so that they may seek their revenge, luring boys into the harbor and pulling them under. Stones were tied to their ankles and they were drowned in the deep waters surrounding the town. Where, two centuries ago, three sisters were sentenced to death for witchery.
Shea Ernshaw’s The Wicked Deep fits nicely in the YA paranormal genre and fits nicely as a summer read, as it takes place at the start of summer in a small coastal town, or as a spooky read in the fall for Halloween.
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