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The Red Witch

The Red Witch

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: A marvelous read
Review: Serena Devlin has woven a tale of adventure, time travel and romance set in modern day Salem, Massachusetts and the Salem of 1692. Her marvelous descriptions of her characters and of the settings in her novel remind me of the type of attentiion to detail that made Ernest Hemingway so famous. If anyone is expecting a book about Wiccans, they'll be sadly disappointed. This novel is an adventurous romp with great characters such as Jamie O'Roarke, a pirate trapped inside an oak tree for three hundred years, freed by a bolt of lightening on Old Hallows Eve that splits the tree in two. Devlin brings to life the Salem of 1692 by her use of dialect that would have been spoken by persons living in Salem at that time. I highly recommend this book for any person age fifteen or older. (I'm an adult and I throughly enjoyed it) Theodore Windsor, history teacher (10th grade)

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Witches, Pirates and Ghosts
Review: The ghost of Jamie O'Roarke, a dashing pirate trapped inside an oak tree in the Old Burial Ground in Salem, Mass. is released from his wooden prison by a bolt of lightening on Old Hallows Eve. Unbeknown to Rebecca Love, the lovely young assistant to Peter Hawking,(who is holding a seance in the cemetery), O'Roarke has been waiting three hundred years to get revenge on the Love family. It seems Rebecca Love's ancesters were responsible for O'Roarke being hanged. O'Roarke tricks Rebecca into going with him back to the Salem of 1692. What follows is a wonderful story of intrigue, humor and suspense told by an author who has throughly researched her subject. This entertaining novel is not only wonderfully written, it is informative and historically accurate. I highly recommend this book. It's a real page turner.


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