Tag: Salem witch trials

Review: Amity by Micol Ostow

Thank you to Egmont USA and Netgalley for allowing me to read an e-galley of this title.  Unfortunately, while it had some definitely scary parts to it, very horror movie like,  I wasn’t necessarily as thrilled with it as I had hoped to be.  You see, I recently looked into the whole Amityville Horror stories, […]

Posted July 26, 2014 by Lisa Mandina in / 2 Comments

Review: Conversion by Katherine Howe

First, thanks to Edelweiss and Putnam Juvenile for allowing me to read an e-galley of this title.  I have read the adult novel by this same author, The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane, and it was also very interesting.  I don’t think I have that review on this blog that I can link back to […]

Posted June 23, 2014 by Lisa Mandina in / 4 Comments

Spellbinding by Maya Gold

Again, thanks to Scholastic and Netgalley for letting me read this egalley in the fall of 2012.  I have to say I really liked this one!  I’m not always sure about books that are about witches.  Sometimes it is too hokey or I just can’t get into the story.  But this book was really good! […]

Posted March 1, 2013 by Lisa Mandina in / 2 Comments