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Spells for Forgetting

By Adrienne Young
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “Lush with secrets, magic, and a past that won’t stay where it belongs, this novel is (quite fittingly) spellbinding.”—JODI PICOULT, author of Wish You Were Here

A deeply atmospheric story about ancestral magic, an unsolved murder, and a second chance at true love

ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: She Reads

Emery Blackwood’s life changed forever the night her best friend was found dead and the love of her life, August Salt, was accused of murdering her. Years later, she is doing what her teenage self swore she never would: living a quiet existence on the misty, remote shores of Saoirse Island and running the family’s business, Blackwood’s Tea Shoppe Herbal Tonics & Tea Leaf Readings. But when the island, rooted in folklore and magic, begins to show signs of strange happenings, Emery knows that something is coming. The morning she wakes to find that every single tree on Saoirse has turned color in a single night, August returns for the first time in fourteen years and unearths the past that the town has tried desperately to forget.

August knows he is not welcome on Saiorse, not after the night everything changed. As a fire raged on at the Salt family orchard, Lily Morgan was found dead in the dark woods, shaking the bedrock of their tight-knit community and branding August a murderer. When he returns to bury his mother’s ashes, he must confront the people who turned their backs on him and face the one wound from his past that has never healed—Emery. But the town has more than one reason to want August gone, and the emergence of deep betrayals and hidden promises spanning generations threaten to reveal the truth behind Lily’s mysterious death once and for all.

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3.5
“I really enjoyed this book, it was easy to get into and kept my attention. BUT THE ENDING..Although not enough to ruin the book, left me confused. Liotta Morgan tricked her granddaughter into killing Emery in hopes of securing Lily and August Salt’s future together all in an attempt to get the Salt orchard back into the Morgan family. While Lily was unsuccessful and ended up killing herself instead of Emery, Liotta used her daughter’s death as a way to get rid of August Salt and clear another path for taking the orchard away from the Salt family. I thought no one knew, that lilies death was suicide by failed murder. Except for Liotta.. but during that little scuffle at the end and the voiced revelations of the truth no one seemed shocked, or outrage they were being bamboozled. Especially Emery’s Uncle, I was waiting for his outrage and shock because I assumed this entire time he thought August was guilty of killing Lily even in blind faith to justify the innocence of Emery in Lily‘s death, since she was the other suspect. But they seem to kind of know at the end that August has always been innocent. Liotta is crazy and evil. Her motivations are not in question. I just don’t understand the rest of the town council motivation and killing August Salt. Towards the end, it seems like the council does whatever needs to be done to protect the town or island but murdering August salt, especially if they all knew he was innocent makes zero sense. Even if it was only Emery‘s uncle and Emery‘s grandmother who knew the truth, they had no reason to keep it from the rest of the council, and no reason to continue with August murder it was a wonky ending for me. And I was disappointed we didn’t get any justice against Liotta.”

About Adrienne Young

Adrienne Young is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the Sky in the Deep duology and the Fable series. Her books have been published in over twenty-five countries. When she’s not writing, you can find her on her yoga mat, on a walk in the woods, or planning her next travel adventure. She lives and writes in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina.

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