Graydon House
Black Candle Women: A Read with Jenna Pick
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"If you like Practical Magic... you will love Black Candle Women." --Jenna Bush Hager
Named a Best Book of the Month by: Shondaland, MS. Magazine, TODAY.com, Reader's Digest, Katie Couric Media, AARP Sisters, Goodreads, BookRiot
A warm and wry family drama with a magical twist about four generations of Black women, a family love curse, and the secrets they keep for and from each other over one very complicated year
Generations of Montrose women--Augusta, Victoria, Willow--have always lived together in their quaint California bungalow. They keep to themselves, never venture far from home, and their collection of tinctures and spells is an unspoken bond between them. But when young Nickie Montrose brings home a boy for the first time, their quiet lives are thrown into disarray.
For the family has withheld a crucial secret from Nickie all these years: any person a Montrose woman falls in love with will die. Their surprise guest forces each woman to reckon with her own past choices and mistakes. And as new truths about the curse emerge, they're set on a collision course dating back to 1950s New Orleans's French Quarter--where a hidden story in a mysterious book may just hold the answers they seek in life and in love...
"Richly imagined and elegantly told, with plenty of satisfying secrets, heartaches, and twists."
--Sadeqa Johnson, New York Times bestselling author of The House of Eve, a Reese's Book Club Pick
"Propulsive and poignant, Black Candle Women concocts an intoxicating potion of warmth, wisdom, and wonder." --Ava DuVernay
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Book Details
ISBN:
9781525804281
EAN:
9781525804281
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
368
Authors:
Diane Marie Brown
Publisher:
Graydon House
Published Date: 2024-09-07
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The read is entertaining enough and dynamic in family history and interaction. Love, loss and fear are thematic. Positive ending.
I just found it super slow and painful to read. I felt compelled because of the Goodreads assigned challenges and it basically said "If you liked Practical Magic, you'll like this".... except I already read Practical Magic which did it much better and much more charmingly. Very light on the details of hoo doo I was expecting and I found the ending confusing and unsatisfying.
𝑰 𝒆𝒔𝒑𝒆𝒄𝒊𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒆𝒂𝒄𝒉 𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒂𝒄𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒉𝒂𝒅 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒐𝒘𝒏 𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒑𝒕𝒆𝒓, 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒂𝒄𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒔 𝒘𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒘𝒆𝒍𝒍 𝒇𝒍𝒆𝒔𝒉𝒆𝒅 𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒊 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒕𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒌𝒏𝒊𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒇𝒂𝒎𝒊𝒍𝒚 𝒃𝒐𝒏𝒅, 𝒊 𝒅𝒐𝒏'𝒕 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒄𝒍𝒐𝒔𝒆 𝒇𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒍𝒆 𝒓𝒆𝒍𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔𝒉𝒊𝒑𝒔 𝒔𝒐 𝒊 𝒆𝒏𝒋𝒐𝒚 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒎 𝒗𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒐𝒖𝒔𝒍𝒚 𝒕𝒉𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉 𝒃𝒐𝒐𝒌𝒔. 😍😍😘
No one in my book club really liked this book. We just thought it lacked substance. We liked the quirky characters, and a couple people thought it would make a good sit-com for network TV. If it hadn’t been a Jenna book club selection, I wonder if it would’ve ever been a best seller.
I loved the idea of spells and voodoo. It really affected their character. This was fun to read.I’ll read Diane again.
