Since then, they have returned to the city every summer, and stolen boys away. The Swan sisters were accused as witches and drowned 200 years ago. The Wicked Deep takes a cities history, and makes it a haunting curse. However, as I said in the brackets, the two are very different. I think it was the feeling of supernatural legend colliding with the regular world that reminded me of The Raven Cycle. When I first started The Wicked Deep, it held a similar air as The Raven Cycle (though the two are very different). If you liked The Raven Cycle, I think you'll like The Wicked Deep. Highly recommend! A great book for both fantasy and romance readers as well as anyone that enjoys folklore and mythology. Ernshaw is an excellent writer and the master of cliff hangers! Just about every chapter ends with a crazy twist or some new shocking discovery, it was dang near impossible to put the book down! As a result this is my quickest read so far this year! I decided this book was great immediately after reading the opening chapter/intro “The Sea”, and my impression did not change the entire read through. It was suspenseful, spooky and heart-wrenching. Thoughts: This story was a double whammy for me because it had elements of both Witches and of Sirens, two things I am mildly obsessed with. And each year they enact their revenge by drowning young men.

Every year since, the three sisters’ return to Sparrow by each inhabiting the body of a local girl. The curse of the Swan sisters, who were wrongfully convicted as witches and drowned two centuries ago. Premise: The seaside town of Sparrow is haunted by a very real curse. Um what?! I’m kind of wrecked after that ending - I kept wondering, “How on earth is Ernshaw going to wrap this up?” I really had no idea what to expect, this story had so many bamboozling twists anything was fair game. And she will be forced to choose: save Bo, or save herself. And death comes swiftly to those who cannot resist the call of the sisters.īut only Penny sees what others cannot. Penny and Bo suspect each other of hiding secrets. The townspeople turn against one another. Mistrust and lies spread quickly through the salty, rain-soaked streets. But this year, on the eve of the sisters’ return, a boy named Bo Carter arrives unaware of the danger he has just stumbled into. Like many locals, seventeen-year-old Penny Talbot has accepted the fate of the town.

Now, for a brief time each summer, the sisters return, stealing the bodies of three weak-hearted girls so that they may seek their revenge, luring boys into the harbor and pulling them under. Stones were tied to their ankles and they were drowned in the deep waters surrounding the town.

Where, two centuries ago, three sisters were sentenced to death for witchery. Hocus Pocus and Practical Magic meets the Salem Witch trials in this haunting story about three sisters on a quest for revenge-and how love may be the only thing powerful enough to stop them.

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