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Courtesy of Teens Read Too, Juil 5 2009
Connie Goodwin, like many young women, has issues with her mother. So when Grace asks her daughter to interrupt her doctoral research at Harvard to go to Marblehead for the summer and ready her grandmother's house to be sold, Connie wonders why she agreed.
And that was before she walked into the ancient cottage that has no electricity.
Connie's knowledge of Colonial history, her chosen field of study, comes in handy as she learns the secrets of the past occupants of the house, one of whom was tried in the Salem witch trials. As Connie digs deeper into the past, she finds herself being catapulted into a world of witchery and magic, the very things her own mother has made her run far and fast from.
THE PHYSICK BOOK OF DELIVERANCE DANE has it all: believable characters, a love story, friendship, and family connections as well as curses. It is a well-written first novel that weaves the author's personal ties with the era into an incredibly convincing story.
Reviewed by: Angie Fisher
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A very nice effort., Jui 23 2009
If you took the same, solid premise, characters, plotline, outline, and gave them to an average writer, a good writer and a gifted writer, you'd end up with three entirely different novels. There'd be differences in style, in tack, in execution; in myriad ways. One would be pedestrian, getting the job done, another would be engagingly entertaining, while the third might be exemplary literature.
'The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane' is of the middle category. It's a bang-up début, chock full of gusto and energy and enthusiasm, shot through with a scholar's need to leave a mark. (That is, a certain earnestness that has its charms...but is also the novel's weakness.)
In the hands of an accomplished writer, it could have been a whole lot more. Memorable. Unputdownable. A gem. It's not any of these things, but it most certainly is an engaging piece of entertainment.
I recommend it to anyone who craves something a little different, a fan of history, with a curiosity about witches...and maybe who's a romantic to boot.
Nicely done, Ms Howe. Nicely done.
(For the record, I'd give it three-and-a-half stars if I could.)
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An Incredible Read!, Oct. 27 2009
Connie Goodwin has just achieved her life's dream: candidacy for the PHD program at Harvard. She must provide her mentor with a PHD dissertation topic shortly. He encourages her to look for a new, unheard of primary research source. But there are other things on her mind.
Her New Age mother, Grace, has asked her to clean out her Grandmother's house. Not having anything to do aside from research, Connie agrees, despite a wish to do the exact opposite. While cleaning the house, she finds a key tucked inside of an old bible.
Inside the empty shaft of the key is a slip of paper. On the paper is a name: Deliverance Dane. As she digs into the story of Deliverance Dane, Connie realizes that Deliverance was a Witch, accused during the Salem Witch Trials of 1692.
But what she doesn't know is that she is connected to Deliverance in an incredible way. And, though Connie doesn't believe in Witchcraft, what does she do when she is given proof that Witchcraft actually exists?
As she delves further into the mystery surrounding Deliverance Day, she realizes that she is connected to her, and the Salem Witch Trials, in a way that she could not imagine.
This is by far one of my favourite books of 2009 and I can't wait to read the authors next book. She deftly weaves history, romance, suspense, intrigue and magic into one of the most amazing novels ever written.
Normally, books set in modern day that have a historical background read like text books. The author tries to incorporate the history we need to know and ends up dragging down the storyline, making it lag. Not so in The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane. Though we do come away with a thorough history of The Salem Witch Trials, and its causes, the book is written in a breezy, easy to read manner.
Connie is an incredibly likeable character who, though bookish, is a strong woman, a refreshing change from a lot of fiction out there today. I also love the fact that the author introduced the love interest, Sam, so well; their meeting and the build up of their relationship was incredibly natural and very sweet.
If you're looking for the special book this summer, look no further than The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane. With enough history, romance, magic and surprise twists, it's writing at its best and is pure magic.
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