How to Hang a Witch
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"I am utterly addicted to Adriana Mather's electric debut. It keeps you on the edge of your seat, twisting and turning with ghosts, witches, an ancient curse, and - sigh - romance." Jennifer Niven
After Sam's father is hospitalised, she has to move from New York to Salem with her stepmother, Vivian. Unfortunately, Sam is related to Cotton Mather, one of the men responsible for the Salem Witch Trials, and to say she feels unwelcome in Salem is an understatement... She is particularly unnerved by The Descendants, a mysterious and tight-knit group of girls related to those persecuted in the Trials. At the same time, she must deal with Elijah, the handsome but angry ghost who has appeared in her house, and her new neighbour Jaxon only complicates things further.
When a centuries-old curse is rekindled, Sam finds herself at the centre of it. Can she stop history repeating itself?
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“I’m not perfect. I’m far from it. I’m weird. The strangest things happen around me all the time.” Watch out, Jughead, Sam is coming for you! I do NOT understand the high average rating. It was honestly SO stupid and I was looking forward to reading the second book in the series because it takes place on the Titanic. However, I cannot handle more of these characters. The main character, Sam, is a pain in the ass and the cause of many eye rolls and cringe attacks. She’s clumsy and awkward and the perfect opposite of endearing. Then there are the Descendants. A group of mean girls descendant from Salem’s witches. They always wear black and hate the main character. Adding to that, there’s one of the stupidest love triangles of all time: “I just did a spell with my next-door neighbour, and my best friend’s a spirit – who I’ve kissed.” The ghost is “tuned in” to her, so he always knows where she is. Creepy much? Coincidentally, the son of her next-door neighbour is also in love with her. And she’s the only one who can see the spirit, so there were many awkward and cringey moments. And while I’m on the topic of cringey moments: there was a party where EVERYONE got a rash, except, of course, the main character. Every single partygoer assumed she bit them. She herself “always assumed the rash somehow manifested by itself, like a sign of the apocalypse or something.” Absolutely ridiculous.
Group silence can be a death sentence... This book was... weird. Maybe I'm too stupid (or too tired) to get it but I felt completely lost during more than half of the book. I mean, I knew from the start that there was something wrong with the villain of the story and I got what drove'em in the end but during the read it all felt totally random. The characters aren't easy as well. Sam is lonely and doesn't know how to make friends (not bad in itsself, but I found her so annoying), Jaxon is weird and Vivian's just mean and frankly, I don't know what Sam's dad saw in her. Elijah - now he's cool. He's got just the right kind of mysterious and I'd loved to see more of him. Well, what kinda makes me look forward to another book about Sam? The last word of this novel. See ya all on the Titanic!
Description
"I am utterly addicted to Adriana Mather's electric debut. It keeps you on the edge of your seat, twisting and turning with ghosts, witches, an ancient curse, and - sigh - romance." Jennifer Niven
After Sam's father is hospitalised, she has to move from New York to Salem with her stepmother, Vivian. Unfortunately, Sam is related to Cotton Mather, one of the men responsible for the Salem Witch Trials, and to say she feels unwelcome in Salem is an understatement... She is particularly unnerved by The Descendants, a mysterious and tight-knit group of girls related to those persecuted in the Trials. At the same time, she must deal with Elijah, the handsome but angry ghost who has appeared in her house, and her new neighbour Jaxon only complicates things further.
When a centuries-old curse is rekindled, Sam finds herself at the centre of it. Can she stop history repeating itself?
Book Information
Posts
“I’m not perfect. I’m far from it. I’m weird. The strangest things happen around me all the time.” Watch out, Jughead, Sam is coming for you! I do NOT understand the high average rating. It was honestly SO stupid and I was looking forward to reading the second book in the series because it takes place on the Titanic. However, I cannot handle more of these characters. The main character, Sam, is a pain in the ass and the cause of many eye rolls and cringe attacks. She’s clumsy and awkward and the perfect opposite of endearing. Then there are the Descendants. A group of mean girls descendant from Salem’s witches. They always wear black and hate the main character. Adding to that, there’s one of the stupidest love triangles of all time: “I just did a spell with my next-door neighbour, and my best friend’s a spirit – who I’ve kissed.” The ghost is “tuned in” to her, so he always knows where she is. Creepy much? Coincidentally, the son of her next-door neighbour is also in love with her. And she’s the only one who can see the spirit, so there were many awkward and cringey moments. And while I’m on the topic of cringey moments: there was a party where EVERYONE got a rash, except, of course, the main character. Every single partygoer assumed she bit them. She herself “always assumed the rash somehow manifested by itself, like a sign of the apocalypse or something.” Absolutely ridiculous.
Group silence can be a death sentence... This book was... weird. Maybe I'm too stupid (or too tired) to get it but I felt completely lost during more than half of the book. I mean, I knew from the start that there was something wrong with the villain of the story and I got what drove'em in the end but during the read it all felt totally random. The characters aren't easy as well. Sam is lonely and doesn't know how to make friends (not bad in itsself, but I found her so annoying), Jaxon is weird and Vivian's just mean and frankly, I don't know what Sam's dad saw in her. Elijah - now he's cool. He's got just the right kind of mysterious and I'd loved to see more of him. Well, what kinda makes me look forward to another book about Sam? The last word of this novel. See ya all on the Titanic!