The Hawley Book of the Dead
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781780891460 (1780891466)
Publish date: October 23rd 2014
Publisher: Century
Pages no: 400
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Magic,
Paranormal,
Witches,
Historical Fiction,
Mystery,
Thriller,
Mystery Thriller,
Magical Realism,
Supernatural,
Fiction
by Chrysler Szarlan The beginning grabs you right away. Both poetic and shocking, the reader is brought into a world of a woman (Reve) and her husband who do a stage magic act, their twin daughters, and an incident with a gun that went wrong. Overshadowing it all is the unexplained scent of lilacs...
This is a great book to add to your summer reading list, if it isn’t already on it. For me, it had all of the elements of a powerful, suspenseful read. I am a complete sucker for a New England witch story, and, while this was more about magic than witches, it fit the bill otherwise. A story of a fam...
Publication Date: 23rd October 2014 from Randomhouse UK/Cornerstone. Source: Netgalley Revelation “Reve” Dyer grew up with her grandmother’s family stories, stretching back centuries to Reve’s ancestors, who founded the town of Hawley Five Corners, Massachusetts. Their history is steeped in secr...
The blurb of the book sounded very interesting: Reve Dyer moves to an old abandoned house (or rather a village) to protect herself and her children from the creature which just killed her husband. Reve and her husband used to be magicians with their own theater in Las Vegas. But Reve also has real m...