Book Review: The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane
Connie is a graduate student at Harvard, who is suckered by her mother into getting rid of her grandmother’s house and things, twenty years after her grandmother had passed away. The house is as anyone would expect a twenty year dilapidated home to be.
Much to my delight, Connie finds magic within the bookshelves of antique books.
And this is the story!
My imagination was piqued throughout the entire novel, and I would have liked to imagine my own adventures and discoveries that could have happened had I been in Connie’s shoes. Instead, Katherine Howe creatively wove stories together of past and present, creating a story that fits together like the puzzle that is history.
This story gives a new twist to the known story of the Salem Witch Trials, incorporating history and the author’s own personal family story. While Howe demonstrates a lack of creativity in her sentence structure, she makes up for it in vocabulary. I was drawn into this story and compelled to write more in my own Book of Shadows.
