The heavy promotion of this novel lead me to expect something spectacular. It isn't that. Instead, we have a competent book of a woman's discovery of her talents and of history, enabling her to live less in her head and more in her heart, and along the way finding the inevitable nice young man, facing down the selfishness of her mentor, and discovering that she is more competent than she thought.
The unique part of the novel is the historical scenes that cut between the modern day ones - the premise of Deliverance Dane, executed as a witch in the Salem trials, and her female descendants all actually being "witches". We might call them psychic healers in our modern day. The author gives one a fair picture of how such gifted women would be treated in the heavily Puritan/Christian culture.
This book is readable but not that great, and definitely wasn't worth my buying in hardcover.
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Other books read this month: Suspect; The Night Ferry - both by Michael Robotham.
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