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BORN WICKED
Genre: Young Adult, Paranormal, Historical
We need more paranormals with good, old-fashioned New England witches — Born Wicked is exactly that. It’s a quick, romantic read set in an alternate version of puritanical Maine. The feminist undertones, the descriptions of sumptuous dresses, the dangerous, secretive magic wielding: Born Wicked is like a sizzling, more fun version of The Witch of Blackbird Pond. The protagonist falls prey to one of the pitfalls of historical fiction — her modern sensibilities come off a bit anachronistic — and is prissy bordering on unlikable, but the setting and premise are strong enough to make the choice of narrator forgivable. Born Wicked imagines a Puritan colony in which witches really exist. Having once been in power, female witches have been massacred to near extinction, and all women — magical and otherwise — are treated as weak-willed, second-class citizens, lorded over by the priests of the Brotherhood. Cate Cahill and her sisters, all three of them witches, are forced to practice their magic in secret. But they aren’t the only ones keeping secrets, and when Cate learns of a prophecy perhaps involving she and her sisters, she finds they’re in danger. (PUTNAM, Feb., 336 pp., $17.99, ISBN: 9780399257452, HC, 12 & Up) Reviewed By: Ellen Parsons Publisher: PUTNAM Published: February 2012 |
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