A zombie, a Blue Blood and a warlock all wander into a story that toward the end reads like a crash course in Norse mythology as De la Cruz tries to pull together her plot strings and set up the next book. Just as it reaches its climax and North Hampton is going haywire, a whole cast of otherworldly creatures appears. And that’s when this book begins to turn into a bit of a brew. The Beauchamps’ rusty magic seems to be causing mysterious and bad happenings in the rarefied, sprawling lands of North Hampton, leading the trio to fear they will be persecuted like the suspected witches of Salem, Mass. (The girls’ mother has to rebirth her daughters whenever they get into trouble, which explains why Freya is hundreds of years old but has the body and libido of a lingerie model.) When Freya decides to serve up love potions at the bar where she works, it inspires her sister and mother to start practicing magic again as well, but the years they’ve been forbidden to cast spells or bring back the dead have taken their toll.
She, along with her mother and virginal librarian sister, have been banned from practicing magic ever since an entity known as the Council confiscated their wands and cauldrons and burned their broomsticks. Gone are erudite teens in private school they have been replaced with a slightly older cast of wealthy characters who can fool around in more graphic detail.įreya is the youngest in a centuries-old coven known as the Beauchamps.
Like Brigadoon, it was shrouded in fog and rarely came into view.” In place of Manhattan, the action unfolds in North Hampton, Long Island, a town that “does not exist on any map, which made locating the small, insular community on the very edge of the Atlantic coast something of a conundrum to outsiders, who were known to wander in by chance only to find it impossible to return so that the place, with its remarkably empty silver-sand beaches, rolling green fields, and imposing, rambling farmhouses, became more of a half-remembered dream than a memory. Instead of vampires, the main characters are witches. Having won legions of fans with her bestselling Young Adult series “Blue Bloods,” she’s heading in the opposite direction with “Witches of East End,” the first installment in a new series for grownups. Literature for young adults has become such an “it” genre that increasing numbers of big-name authors are trading on their reps to write for younger audiences.
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