BOOK REVIEW: OUR CROOKED HEARTS BY MELISSA ALBERT
GOODREADS SUMMARY:
THE SUBURBS, RIGHT NOW . . .
Seventeen-year-old Ivy’s summer break kicks off with an accident, a punishment, and a mystery: a stranger whose appearance in the middle of the road, in the middle of the night, heralds a string of increasingly unsettling events. As the days pass, Ivy grapples with eerie offerings, corroded memories, and a secret she’s always known—that there’s more to her mother than meets the eye.
THE CITY, BACK THEN . . .
Dana has always been perceptive. And the summer she turns sixteen, with the help of her best friend and an ambitious older girl, her gifts bloom into a heady fling with the supernatural, set in a city of magical possibilities and secret mystics. As the trio’s aspirations darken, they find themselves speeding toward a violent breaking point.
Years after it began, Ivy and Dana’s shared story will come down to a reckoning among a daughter, a mother, and the dark forces they never should’ve messed with.
Seventeen-year-old Ivy’s summer break kicks off with an accident, a punishment, and a mystery: a stranger whose appearance in the middle of the road, in the middle of the night, heralds a string of increasingly unsettling events. As the days pass, Ivy grapples with eerie offerings, corroded memories, and a secret she’s always known—that there’s more to her mother than meets the eye.
THE CITY, BACK THEN . . .
Dana has always been perceptive. And the summer she turns sixteen, with the help of her best friend and an ambitious older girl, her gifts bloom into a heady fling with the supernatural, set in a city of magical possibilities and secret mystics. As the trio’s aspirations darken, they find themselves speeding toward a violent breaking point.
Years after it began, Ivy and Dana’s shared story will come down to a reckoning among a daughter, a mother, and the dark forces they never should’ve messed with.
TEE'S THOUGHTS:
I am not usually a YA reader, but I am a fan of books that deal with witchcraft, thanks to Alice Hoffman, so I decided to take a chance with Our Crooked Hearts.
Melissa Albert weaves vivid storytelling with dark subjects that instantly drew me in and kept me engaged until the end. I did not feel like I was reading a YA book, this could have easily been an adult book told from a teen's perspective. The dark elements that are in the book helped propel it into the adult world.
I actually listened to the audio of the book and enjoyed the narration of the two readers, Chloe Cannon and Emma Galvin, they added to the suspense and the intensity of the entire story and kept the pace at an enjoyable pace.
Told in dual timelines " in the city/back then " and " the suburbs/right now " the story is a look at a mother-daughter relationship. A coming of age for a teenager trying to become her own person away from her parent all wrapped in witchcraft. It is a creepy mix of mystery and thriller with plenty of sinister, dark, witchy fun
This sound good, perhaps a bit too dark for me, but I do love witchcraft in books.
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