Witches of East End

By: Melissa De La Cruz

288 Pages

"It’s the beginning of summer in North Hampton, and beautiful Freya Beauchamp is celebrating her engagement to wealthy Bran Gardiner, the heir to Fair Haven and Gardiners Island. But Freya is drawn to Bran’s gorgeous but unreliable brother Killian, and sparks fly when the two decide to play a dangerous game, following an ancient story of love, betrayal and tragedy that harks back to the days of Valhalla.

Witches of East End follows the Beauchamp family—the formidable matriarch Joanna and her daughters Freya and Ingrid. Freya, a sexy bartender, has a potion to cure every kind of heartache, while Ingrid, the local librarian, solves complicated domestic problems with her ability to tie magical knots. Joanna is the witch to see when modern medicine has no more answers; her powers can wake the dead. Everything seems to be going smoothly until a young girl, Molly Lancaster, goes missing after taking one of Freya’s irresistible cocktails. As more of the town’s residents begin disappearing, everyone seems to have the same suspects in mind: the Beauchamp women.

Fraught with love, small-town secrets, and witchcraft, Witches of East End will capture any reader who craves a page-turning, heart-stopping story of myth and magic from an author who knows how to deliver. " - The Website of Melissa De La Cruz

First of all, this is an adult novel, not YA. There were one or two more mature scenes, so if you aren't comfortable with that than this book probably isn't the one for you.

To be honest, as I always strive to be, this novel started off strong, then lulled slowly into a slightly boring middle, before picking up again to create a suspenseful but simultaneously slightly confusing ending that I had to re-read to fully understand what was happening.

This being said, I enjoyed Witches of East End overall, and I will be keeping my eye out for the next book in the Beauchamp Family Series.

The video below has some minor spoilers, nothing central to the plot, but minor spoiler-age nonetheless. You have been warned! (Cue menacing background music)



Have you read it yet? Were you confused about the ending too, or was that just me?

P.S. - SO SORRY for the lapse in posts the past few weeks; I was out of town and had no internet service. :(

But now I'm back! :)