Title: Spells TroubleAuthor: P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast
Narrator: Cassandra Campbell
Series: Sisters of Salem Trilogy
Genre: YA Fantasy
Format: Audiobook
Listening Length: 10 hours and 43 minutes
Date of Publication: May 25, 2021
Description: The first audiobook in the Sisters of Salem trilogy about twin witches from the powerhouse duo P.C. and Kristin Cast!
Double double, twins spell trouble....
Hunter and Mercy Goode are twin witches, direct descendants of the founder of their town of Goodeville. As their ancestors have done before them, it is now time for the twins to learn what it means to be Gatekeepers - the protectors of the Gates to different underworlds, ancient portals between their world and realms where mythology rules and nightmares come to life.
When their mother becomes the first victim in a string of murders, the devastated sisters vow to avenge her death. But it will take more than magic to rein in the ancient mythological monsters who’ve infected their peaceful town.
Now Hunter and Mercy must come together and accept their destiny or risk being separated for good.
My Thoughts: I love a good witchcraft story or movie and I was hoping that this would be one of them. It sounded quite interesting and the cover definitely caught my attention. I have also read The Key by Kristin Cast and I quite enjoyed it, so I thought I might like this as well.
I quite enjoyed the first chapter and it reminded me of the setting for Salem where women were persecuted for the people believing that they were witches. Then all of a sudden it was like I was transported to another time in the future. Somewhere there was a time jump that I missed and it made it quite unsettling. It took me a very long time to get over the time jump. I honestly am not sure if the first part of the book is really necessary at all.
The main characters in the book are teenagers, which makes sense since this is a YA book. Besides being witches the two teenage twins also struggle with real life situations. Hunter is a lesbian and the story touches quite realistically on how the LGBTQ community can be viewed even by their loved ones. There is also the teenage sex scene, which was quite detailed, and unnecessary to the story. The aftermath of the sex scene, is what you typically hear about in movies when it comes to the teenage boy who became "lucky".
The other main character is Zena, their cat familiar. I really liked her especially her character transformation. She is probably my favorite character out of the whole book.
The narration by Cassandra Campbell was well done. She changes her voice to represent each character in the book. Listening to her speak as if she was each character though does make you think that teenagers, at least in this day and age, do not really speak the way that they are written to in the book. Even the way that Zena speaks is odd but that could also be contributed to Zena's age.
Rating: 2 out of 5. As much as I wanted to really enjoy this book, I just couldn't get into it. I didn't feel like their was enough action and magic actually occurring until the very end of the book. I also found the time jump very hard to get past.
Many thanks to Macmillan Audio and Netgalley for this review copy. This is my honest opinion.
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