3.5
The Lighthouse Witches
By C. J. CookePublisher Description
A Most Anticipated Novel by Pop Sugar * Book Riot * Betches * Bustle * and more!
"Utterly spellbinding....Witchcraft meets thriller."--Pop Sugar
Two sisters go missing on a remote Scottish island. Twenty years later, one is found--but she's still the same age as when she disappeared. The secrets of witches have reached across the centuries in this chilling Gothic thriller from the author of the acclaimed The Nesting.
When single mother Liv is commissioned to paint a mural in a 100-year-old lighthouse on a remote Scottish island, it's an opportunity to start over with her three daughters--Luna, Sapphire, and Clover. When two of her daughters go missing, she's frantic. She learns that the cave beneath the lighthouse was once a prison for women accused of witchcraft. The locals warn her about wildlings, supernatural beings who mimic human children, created by witches for revenge. Liv is told wildlings are dangerous and must be killed.
Twenty-two years later, Luna has been searching for her missing sisters and mother. When she receives a call about her youngest sister, Clover, she's initially ecstatic. Clover is the sister she remembers--except she's still seven years old, the age she was when she vanished. Luna is worried Clover is a wildling. Luna has few memories of her time on the island, but she'll have to return to find the truth of what happened to her family. But she doesn't realize just how much the truth will change her.
"Utterly spellbinding....Witchcraft meets thriller."--Pop Sugar
Two sisters go missing on a remote Scottish island. Twenty years later, one is found--but she's still the same age as when she disappeared. The secrets of witches have reached across the centuries in this chilling Gothic thriller from the author of the acclaimed The Nesting.
When single mother Liv is commissioned to paint a mural in a 100-year-old lighthouse on a remote Scottish island, it's an opportunity to start over with her three daughters--Luna, Sapphire, and Clover. When two of her daughters go missing, she's frantic. She learns that the cave beneath the lighthouse was once a prison for women accused of witchcraft. The locals warn her about wildlings, supernatural beings who mimic human children, created by witches for revenge. Liv is told wildlings are dangerous and must be killed.
Twenty-two years later, Luna has been searching for her missing sisters and mother. When she receives a call about her youngest sister, Clover, she's initially ecstatic. Clover is the sister she remembers--except she's still seven years old, the age she was when she vanished. Luna is worried Clover is a wildling. Luna has few memories of her time on the island, but she'll have to return to find the truth of what happened to her family. But she doesn't realize just how much the truth will change her.
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Linz McD
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“I enjoyed the book but thought it was too short and the ending felt rushed. I enjoy this genre and love fantasy/mythology and was hoping for more developed content in that area. It was still a compelling and interesting read! I was happy the family came back together and questions I had were answered in the end.”Reviewed in:Cool Cats Club
Likable charactersTwistyCreepyObstacles overcome too easilyRushed endingUnsatisfying ending
KaitlynMarae
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“It was an interesting read. Not how I thought it was going to end, that's for sure. The characters were interesting and the plot was good. I thought the first 2/3 was maybe a bit too slow and then the last 1/3 just flew by.”Reviewed in:Cool Cats Club
Cayleen
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Believable charactersEasy to readAction-packedComplexMind-bendingSuspensefulMagical settingMeaningfulThought-provokingRushed ending
Jacque Marin
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Characters change and growEasy to readPoeticAddictiveMind-bendingSuspensefulThrillingTragicUnpredictableHaunting
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Original charactersEasy to readAddictiveFast-pacedScaryDark setting
About C. J. Cooke
C. J. Cooke is an award-winning poet and novelist published in twenty-three languages. She teaches creative writing at the University of Glasgow, where she also researches the impact of motherhood on women's writing and creative writing interventions for mental health.
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