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![]() ![]() ![]() I was pleasantly surprised by The Price Guide to the Occult. Three of the fern leaves have red on the tips. Black background with lime green title surrounded by fern leaves & vines of the same colour. The Price Guide to the Occult book cover. ![]() In her second novel, Leslye Walton spins a dark, mesmerizing tale of a girl stumbling along the path toward self-acceptance and first love, even as the Price Guide’s malevolent author - Nor’s own mother - looms and threatens to strangle any hope for happiness. Nor senses a storm coming and is pretty sure she’ll be smack in the eye of it. But then a mysterious book comes out, promising to cast any spell for the right price. Second, her love life is nonexistent, which means she might escape the other perverse side effect of the matriarch’s backfiring curse, too. She has reason to hope: First, her supernatural powers, if they can be called that, are unexceptional. Fast-forward one hundred–some years: All Nor Blackburn wants is to live an unremarkable teenage life. Guilt and fear instead led the island’s original eight settlers to burn “the witch” out of her home. When Rona Blackburn landed on Anathema Island more than a century ago, her otherworldly skills might have benefited friendlier neighbors. From the author of The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender comes a haunting maelstrom of magic and murder in the lush, moody Pacific Northwest. ![]()
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