Blurb:
The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina meets The Craft when modern witches must save teens stolen by an ancient demon in this YA fantasy-thriller debut.
Dan and Liss are witches. The Black Book granted them that power. Harnessing that power feels good, especially when everything in their lives makes them feel powerless.
During a spell gone wrong, Liss’s boyfriend is snatched away by an evil entity and presumed dead. Dan and Liss’s friendship dies that night, too. How can they practice magic after the darkness that they conjured?
Months later, Liss discovers that her boyfriend is alive, trapped underground in the grips of an ancient force. She must save him, and she needs Dan and the power of The Black Book to do so. Dan is quickly sucked back into Liss’s orbit and pushes away her best friend, Alexa. But Alexa has some big secrets she’s hiding and her own unique magical disaster to deal with.
When another teenager disappears, the girls know it’s no coincidence. What greedy magic have they awakened? And what does it want with these teens it has stolen?
Set in the atmospheric wilds of California’s northern coast, Sasha Laurens’s thrilling debut novel is about the complications of friendship, how to take back power, and how to embrace the darkness that lives within us all.
My Review:
The cover, the title and the Blurb was great than the story. I was so intrigued by seeing the synopsis about witches and magic. But nothing more happened than what is in the synopsis. Not much impressed with the writing style.
The story mainly focuses on teen drama and it revolves around three friends. Liss and Dan were best friends. Liss was more obsessed with the magical book and couldn’t even bother to know what was happening in Dan’s life. She was such a self-obsessed, toxic character I have ever come across. I don’t like any characters except Alexa who was more caring towards Dan. I felt like Dan didn’t give much importance to Alexa who was there for her when she has no one else.
The plot was really good and different but it wasn’t execute well. There was this “ancient creature” the girls were talking about throughout the book. Finally, when it arrived, it was not as frightening as it would have to be. I don’t know where the girls summoned the power to resist his manipulation because they were not portrayed as strong characters save for Liss.
The story was moving so slow at the beginning and it got interesting after crossing 3/4 of it. It was starting to make sense but the climax fight ruined it all. The only reason that kept me to continue the book was Alexa. I would not recommend this book to anyone.
Deepireads 