I enjoyed this book so much. It was pure magic. Throw in a mystery and a death and it was almost perfect. This author managed to get me to throughly enjoy a Sci-Fi and Fantasy book. It's also a thriller and women's fiction. It was so good. It had me turning the pages until late into the night. Guessing all the way. I did not get it right though. Not even close.. That was a good thing.
This book is told from several different people and before and after the fire. It's about a boy and a girl. A boy who loves a girl and a girl who loves the boy. There is also another girl and boy. All four were the best of friends. It was a time when love was in the air between these friends. Or at least for two of them.
When August returns to Saiorse he knows it will not be good. But he had to return. It was his mother's last wish to be buried here. It was her home until fourteen years before when she took her teen son and left. To protect him. The people on Saiorse were convinced that he had killed a teen girl. Emery's best friend Lily to be exact.
When a fire starts and burns a lot of the apple orchard the town people are quick to get it under control. Some were hurt. There was one dead. She didn't die from the fire. Someone drowned her. Of course in this town things pretty much went a certain way. If some wanted you to believe it was August then that is what you did. Magic was everywhere and it was not all good magic.
Emery is afraid to find out if August is guilty but she has to know. In order to truly move on after all this time she needs closure. This is a love story in the middle of the magic and murder and mystery. A love that has always been. Can they come out on top and make a life or will August go to jail for the murder.
This book took me completely by surprise. I was not expecting half of what happened. I just don't tend to read this type of book. I will be reading more though. I was so pleasantly surprised. I think this book flowed great. Kept me interested. Kept me guessing. Kept me rooting for love. I was on the edge a few times and completely blown away other times. This author truly did a great job with this book. There are so many characters. Some you will love and some you will despise. Some of just bad.
Thank you #NetGalley, #AdrienneYoung, #RandomHousePublishingGroup/Ballantine for this ARC. This is my own true thoughts about this book.
5 huge stars and the very highest recommendation I can give. Grab it and hold on. You are in for a treat!
SYNOPSIS
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “Lush with secrets, magic, and a past that won’t stay where it belongs, this novel is (quite fittingly) spellbinding.”—JODI PICOULT, author of Wish You Were Here
A deeply atmospheric story about ancestral magic, an unsolved murder, and a second chance at true love
ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: She Reads
Emery Blackwood’s life changed forever the night her best friend was found dead and the love of her life, August Salt, was accused of murdering her. Years later, she is doing what her teenage self swore she never would: living a quiet existence on the misty, remote shores of Saoirse Island and running the family’s business, Blackwood’s Tea Shoppe Herbal Tonics & Tea Leaf Readings. But when the island, rooted in folklore and magic, begins to show signs of strange happenings, Emery knows that something is coming. The morning she wakes to find that every single tree on Saoirse has turned color in a single night, August returns for the first time in fourteen years and unearths the past that the town has tried desperately to forget.
August knows he is not welcome on Saiorse, not after the night everything changed. As a fire raged on at the Salt family orchard, Lily Morgan was found dead in the dark woods, shaking the bedrock of their tight-knit community and branding August a murderer. When he returns to bury his mother’s ashes, he must confront the people who turned their backs on him and face the one wound from his past that has never healed—Emery. But the town has more than one reason to want August gone, and the emergence of deep betrayals and hidden promises spanning generations threaten to reveal the truth behind Lily’s mysterious death once and for all.
A deeply atmospheric story about ancestral magic, an unsolved murder, and a second chance at true love
ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: She Reads
Emery Blackwood’s life changed forever the night her best friend was found dead and the love of her life, August Salt, was accused of murdering her. Years later, she is doing what her teenage self swore she never would: living a quiet existence on the misty, remote shores of Saoirse Island and running the family’s business, Blackwood’s Tea Shoppe Herbal Tonics & Tea Leaf Readings. But when the island, rooted in folklore and magic, begins to show signs of strange happenings, Emery knows that something is coming. The morning she wakes to find that every single tree on Saoirse has turned color in a single night, August returns for the first time in fourteen years and unearths the past that the town has tried desperately to forget.
August knows he is not welcome on Saiorse, not after the night everything changed. As a fire raged on at the Salt family orchard, Lily Morgan was found dead in the dark woods, shaking the bedrock of their tight-knit community and branding August a murderer. When he returns to bury his mother’s ashes, he must confront the people who turned their backs on him and face the one wound from his past that has never healed—Emery. But the town has more than one reason to want August gone, and the emergence of deep betrayals and hidden promises spanning generations threaten to reveal the truth behind Lily’s mysterious death once and for all.
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