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The Lighthouse Witches by C.J. Cooke
5.0
This book was so much better than I envisaged it would be! It's dark, dreamy and depressing; with mysteries galore!
We learn the story though past and present, from the POV of multiple characters who tell their story and how they all tangle together. We meet Liv, who moves to an isolated lighthouse in Scotland in 1998 with her three daughters, as an artist commissioned to paint an extravagant mural on the lighthouse walls.
In parallel, we see Luna in 2021, who is the only daughter who returned from that lone lighthouse. What happened to her two sisters? What happened to her mother? When her younger sister turns up, having not aged a day and with strange numbers etched into her skin, she needs to figure out what happened and if this actually is her sister.
The story switches between these storylines, aswell as the narration of a grimoire which depicts the witch trials that took place centuries earlier which was said to have cursed the land. The rumours and mysteries involving changelings add to the investigation as Luna questions whether her sister is the same person that went missing all those years ago.
When I say I DEVOURED this book, it's not an exaggeration. I was desperate to unfurl every mystery, and I didn't see any of it coming. I was so attached to the characters storylines, and needed to know exactly what happened and whether the curse or the rumours were true. I didn't expect to give this five stars but I love being surprised! Definitely recommend this one for your spooky season TBR.
We learn the story though past and present, from the POV of multiple characters who tell their story and how they all tangle together. We meet Liv, who moves to an isolated lighthouse in Scotland in 1998 with her three daughters, as an artist commissioned to paint an extravagant mural on the lighthouse walls.
In parallel, we see Luna in 2021, who is the only daughter who returned from that lone lighthouse. What happened to her two sisters? What happened to her mother? When her younger sister turns up, having not aged a day and with strange numbers etched into her skin, she needs to figure out what happened and if this actually is her sister.
The story switches between these storylines, aswell as the narration of a grimoire which depicts the witch trials that took place centuries earlier which was said to have cursed the land. The rumours and mysteries involving changelings add to the investigation as Luna questions whether her sister is the same person that went missing all those years ago.
When I say I DEVOURED this book, it's not an exaggeration. I was desperate to unfurl every mystery, and I didn't see any of it coming. I was so attached to the characters storylines, and needed to know exactly what happened and whether the curse or the rumours were true. I didn't expect to give this five stars but I love being surprised! Definitely recommend this one for your spooky season TBR.