The Book Of Witching by C. J. Cooke

 

My thoughts

I've recently started enjoying books on this topic. I've decided to add new genres to my reading experience. This book was very good. 

Very well written and informative. The Author's Note at the end was worth reading also. I tend to recommend that when I review a book. This is no exception. 

This is the story of one woman whose life was cut short because of a "holy man." He decided that Alison was a witch and would not stop until he got a confession out of her. No matter how or who he had to torture. Alison was a healer. A good woman. She had two children living and a husband she adored. She didn't want to have to leave them. She only wanted to live her life and take care of her family. This part of the story is told from Alison in 1594. In about a year. 

It's also the story of a young lady who is found burned. Erin is Clem's daughter and the mother to Freya. Erin was on an excursion with her two friends. Arlo is her boyfriend and Senna is her best friend. Arlo was found burned to death and Senna is missing. Erin is in a medical coma. This part of the story is told by Clem. All of the things a mother goes through. The pain of seeing her daughter in such pain. Being accused of things possibly. Clem would move the heavens for her child.

You get to know both of the story's and how they tie together. What happened when women were being accused of witchcraft. Of having the devil in them or working with the devil. Of a mother's love for her child. You feel the pain of each in this book.

This author did a brilliant job of describing the scenery. The fire. The courtroom. The pain of loss. This story will have you turning the pages until the very end. I didn't want to put it down. 

Thank you #NetGalley, #Berkley, for this ARC. This is my own true thoughts about this book.

Five big stars. (It was also my BOTM choice)

About

A mother must fight for her daughter’s life in this fierce and haunting tale of witchcraft and revenge from the author of A Haunting in the Arctic.

Clem gets a call that is every mother’s worst nightmare. Her nineteen-year-old daughter Erin is unconscious in the hospital after a hiking trip with her friends on the remote Orkney Islands that met a horrifying end, leaving her boyfriend dead and her best friend missing. When Erin wakes, she doesn’t recognize her mother. And she doesn’t answer to her name, but insists she is someone named Nyx.

Clem travels the site of her daughter’s accident, determined to find out what happened to her. The answer may lie in a dark secret in the history of the a woman wrongly accused of witchcraft and murder four centuries ago. Clem begins to wonder if Erin’s strange behavior is a symptom of a broken mind, or the effects of an ancient curse?