Did Not Finish Practical Magic (Practical Magic book 1) by Alice Hoffman.
Too much hype can hurt a story, especially when readers realize that their expectations have not been met.
Well.. Practical Magic certainly fails to live up to my expectations. Either the magic in the story is way too practical for my taste or the practical setting of the story is too far removed from my idea of magic. In any case, the story is not magical nor exciting enough to sustain my interest.
There are a total of four parts to the story, namely Superstition, Premonitions, Clairvoyance and Levitation. I manage to finish Part I only to find myself struggling to move beyond 36% at Part II.
Sometimes we have to decide whether it is worth turning the page or whether it is time to close the book. In this case, I choose the latter by closing the book with a flourish.
Publisher: Berkley; Reissue edition
Publication date: 5 Aug 2003
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For more than two hundred years, the Owens women have been blamed for everything that went wrong in their Massachusetts town.
Gillian and Sally endured that fate: As children, the sisters were forever outsiders, taunted, talked about, pointed at. Their elderly aunts almost seemed to encourage the whispers of witchery, with their darkened house and their love concoctions and their crowd of black cats.
All Gillian and Sally wanted to do was escape. One would do so by marrying, the other by running away. But the bonds they shared brought them back to each other, and to the magic they couldn’t escape.
A delicious novel about witches and real love, family life and everyday spells. A literary incantation.
*Blurb from author's website*
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