Reasons to read it: This is a fantasy/romance novel that is saturated with Halloween charm. Only one question stands: Is Emmy in?īut most concerning of all: Why can’t she stop thinking about the terrifyingly competent, devastatingly gorgeous, wickedly charming Talia Avramov? Talia had let herself be charmed, only to discover that Gareth was also seeing Linden-unbeknownst to either of them. On her first night home, Emmy runs into Talia Avramov-an all-around badass adept in the darker magical arts-who is fresh off a bad breakup. She’s determined to do her familial duty spend some quality time with her best friend, Linden Thorn and get back to her real life in Chicago. Her self-imposed exile has a lot to do with a complicated family history and a desire to forge her own way in the world, and only the very tiniest bit to do with Gareth Blackmoore, heir to the most powerful magical family in town and casual breaker of hearts and destroyer of dreams.īut when a spellcasting tournament that her family serves as arbiters for approaches, it turns out the pull of tradition (or the truly impressive parental guilt trip that comes with it) is strong enough to bring Emmy back.
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Readers are saying this is the best book in the series, and it provides a satisfying ending to a series with devoted fans.Įmmy Harlow is a witch but not a very powerful one-in part because she hasn’t been home to the magical town of Thistle Grove in years. It brings back the characters from all the three books and brings readers from Massachusetts to Paris and London. Reasons to read it: This is the concluding novel in the Practical Magic series, taking place after the events of Practical Magic. The Book of Magic is a breathtaking conclusion that celebrates mothers and daughters, sisters and brothers, and anyone who has ever been in love. As Kylie Owens uncovers the truth about who she is and what her own dark powers are, her aunt Franny comes to understand that she is ready to sacrifice everything for her family, and Sally Owens realizes that she is willing to give up everything for love. The younger generation discovers secrets that have been hidden from them in matters of both magic and love by Sally, their fiercely protective mother.
Jet is not the only one in danger-the curse is already at work.Ī frantic attempt to save a young man’s life spurs three generations of the Owens women, and one long-lost brother, to use their unusual gifts to break the curse as they travel from Paris to London to the English countryside where their ancestor Maria Owens first practiced the Unnamed Art.
The novel begins in a library, the best place for a story to be conjured, when beloved aunt Jet Owens hears the deathwatch beetle and knows she has only seven days to live.
The Owens family has been cursed in matters of love for over three-hundred years but all of that is about to change.
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