The first in a spellbinding new trilogy. After the death of her mother, Barrie Watson moves to her aunt's South Carolina plantation and learns that an ancient spirit had cursed one of the three founding families of Watson Island and gave the others magical gifts that became compulsions. Barrie must find a way to break free of the family legacy.
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The first in a spellbinding new trilogy. After the death of her mother, Barrie Watson moves to her aunt's South Carolina plantation and learns that an ancient spirit had cursed one of the three founding families of Watson Island and gave the others magical gifts that became compulsions. Barrie must find a way to break free of the family legacy.
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To be honest, I started this book because of the Beautiful Creatures vibe, by which I mean it is a Southern gothic romance novel. After the death of her mother, Barrie is going to her mother's ancestral home to live with her aunt. The move, the complicated relationship she had with her mother and the one she has with her caretaker until now, all that as well as the newness of a community that knows her but of which she knows nothing about - all these are slowly explored in the course of the novel. Watson Island is built on its long history and the secrets it keeps, as well as the curse that binds three of its founding families.
What surprised me about the book that while it downplays the urban fantasy nature of the novel and keeps the romance level higher, I still loved it overall. It is different, and unpredictable at most times. The curse, too, presented a range of characterization in the three heirs of the respective families, and how it shapes them. Barrie is always the one who is returning things, and she has also had to grow up and mature much earlier due to her mother's reclusiveness. She is a people pleaser but here she finds Eight, who is even a bigger people pleaser than her, although he has to work hard at not being it. And then comes her cousin, who she wants to forge a relationship with and yet the curse and its implications on her upbringing. Barrie finds a family here on the island, but she has to decide what parts of it and its heritage she wants to claim.
The romance, meanwhile, I am not completely sold on. Eight and hers instant connection, as well as the fact that she feels a 'returning click' (not explained yet) when she touches him are quite close to insta-love without being insta-love. I can't decide if it's slow burn or a foregone conclusion that is playing out here - and them hardly knowing each other for like a week before they are pretty much in love isn't helping with the former. Also, that boi has mood-swings like whaaaat? Seriously, he is mad at her one second and then grinning at her the next. I don't know what is the curse and what is the author's attempts to make him come across as closed-off-yet-charming. The mystery aspect fared better, in my opinion, even though it wasn't as unpredictable as the rest of the plot.
On the whole, it is an interesting and captivating start to the series.
