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A review by rovco
Magic Lessons: The Prequel to Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman
2.0
"She was a girl, and love is dangerous, and women are not treated well in society and only she was smart enough to know that, so she gave up on love until she didn't: herb, herb, herb, herb, plant, herb, disease."
This is what almost every paragraph in this book sounded like to me.
So so book. I was really critical of the story telling when I first started. That didn't change but I definitely started to understand the style a bit more. Parts of the story were also gripping, but most of it feels like the boring blunt slog above talking at you.
If you are sensitive to an author showing and not telling the story, do not bother with this book. Reading it sometimes felt like I had accidentally bought the themes outline for the story it was supposed to be. It will just tell you the conflict, character growth, resolution, and larger social issues in one paragraph.
It just took forever to get through. This story is definitely for some people, just not me. This feels drenched in modern "not like other girls" pretentious witch culture. No merci. Respect for the amount of words written. No desire to read Book #2.
This is what almost every paragraph in this book sounded like to me.
So so book. I was really critical of the story telling when I first started. That didn't change but I definitely started to understand the style a bit more. Parts of the story were also gripping, but most of it feels like the boring blunt slog above talking at you.
If you are sensitive to an author showing and not telling the story, do not bother with this book. Reading it sometimes felt like I had accidentally bought the themes outline for the story it was supposed to be. It will just tell you the conflict, character growth, resolution, and larger social issues in one paragraph.
It just took forever to get through. This story is definitely for some people, just not me. This feels drenched in modern "not like other girls" pretentious witch culture. No merci. Respect for the amount of words written. No desire to read Book #2.