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A review by ashleysreadingroom
Playing the Witch Card by K.J. Dell'Antonia
5.0
The book is described as Gilmore Girls meets Practical Magic, two of my very favorite things and that just absolutely hits the nail on the head.
Flair Hardwicke moves back to the town she grew up in when her grandmother passes and inherits her grandmother's home and bakery. Flair has magic in her blood but she fears it so rejected it at every chance she got and kept this secret from her own daughter. Their family's magic says to stem from one specific deck of tarot cards that Flair had kept hidden and as much as she wanted to could not find it in her to destroy them.
Flair is asked to provide a desert for a Halloween trail so one night she is decorating cookies to bring to a committee of sorts to share what she will provide as the desert she finds that had somehow decorated the cookies to look just like the tarot cards she had hidden.
Not long after her mom shows up to her home in the middle of the night with Flair's soon-to-be ex husband in the trunk of a car under a spell of control. (very Practical Magic, we love this) The story is so riveting and I finished it in a day. It was one of those cannot put down books. The characters are all unique and we experience love, found family, re-connections. It has some darkness in it, but it was still a beautiful tale.
I was given an arc copy for an honest review. All thoughts and opinions are my own.
Flair Hardwicke moves back to the town she grew up in when her grandmother passes and inherits her grandmother's home and bakery. Flair has magic in her blood but she fears it so rejected it at every chance she got and kept this secret from her own daughter. Their family's magic says to stem from one specific deck of tarot cards that Flair had kept hidden and as much as she wanted to could not find it in her to destroy them.
Flair is asked to provide a desert for a Halloween trail so one night she is decorating cookies to bring to a committee of sorts to share what she will provide as the desert she finds that had somehow decorated the cookies to look just like the tarot cards she had hidden.
Not long after her mom shows up to her home in the middle of the night with Flair's soon-to-be ex husband in the trunk of a car under a spell of control. (very Practical Magic, we love this) The story is so riveting and I finished it in a day. It was one of those cannot put down books. The characters are all unique and we experience love, found family, re-connections. It has some darkness in it, but it was still a beautiful tale.
I was given an arc copy for an honest review. All thoughts and opinions are my own.