Another so so read

The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane by Katherine Howe
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Another so so book for me. I am wanting to visit Salem at some point so am reading every book to do with the trials i can get my hands on.

I read this book after reading how to hang a witch and loving it that book is written by a descendant of Cotton Mather and at the author states at the end of the book she is distantly related to not one but two of the accused learning this I would have thought the book would be better.

my issues:

1. The main character I didn't enjoy Connie at all she was so boring and slow (in my opinion) she didnt pick up on things that should have been obvious to her until the final last possible second. At some points i got the feeling of thinking she is better then others because of her education (her mom for sure Sam at first and the lady at the acult shop to name a few) and that's a quality i find very hard to deal with in most characters.

2. The writing / flow the writing of this book was so hard for me at times the author was very descriptive of every little thing sometimes more then once in the same paragraph and that to me is unnecessary. She also would state something as a fact then later in the book would say something to wipe that fact out that to me is a bad sign in an author and a rookie mistake. As for the flow the story was so broken up by the past interludes that it made it hard to follow sometimes by the time I finished an interlude it would take me a minute to get back into Connie's story and vice versa. I understand the need for them just wish she would have done a better job of connecting them somehow.

final thoughts

As a person who will read anything put in front of her I often find my feelings on a lot of what I read to be so so or ok not good but not bad. That was my feeling with this one then after sitting on it for a bit i realized some things that really bugged me. so although I would never say any book is not worth reading i will say that if you are looking for books about the trials book this one not at the top of your list.

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