#spellsforforgetting

🐉RATING: 🔥🔥🔥🔥/5 How far would you go to protect your home and those you love? What would you sacrifice? Spells for Forgetting, by Adrienne Young, is a small town murder mystery with bits of magic woven throughout. The residents of Saoirse Island are full of secrets. But when August Salt returns to spread his mother’s ashes, the town’s leaders scramble to keep their devious actions buried in the past. As the story unfolds, additional mysteries and lies are unearthed, making everyone appear suspicious. And when the guilty are cornered, they become a threat. The novel combines a cold-case murder mystery, ominous townfolk, layers of deception, and a second-chance romance. I enjoyed the duplicity of the characters and the island's foreboding messages. Young does a great job creating an atmospheric backdrop of uneasiness. A feeling of things being a bit off. Is it the magic of the island or something darker lurking under the veneer of this picturesque town? Read the book, and unlock the island’s secrets. ❓Have you ever lived in a small town? Thank you to @delacortepress and @netgalley for this ARC. #spellsforforgetting #adrienneyoung #bookreview #bookrecommendations #fantasyreader #mystery #secondchanceromance #netgalleyreads #arcreview #bookstagram https://www.instagram.com/p/ClwuUlQgP5b/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

💬 What are some 2022 releases you’re excited for? 🤎📖 I’m soooo excited for @adrienneyoungbooks’s Spells for Forgetting!! This beauty releases September 27th! Is it on your TBR?? Thank you to @delacortepress for gifting me an eARC! 🤎 . . . s u m m a r y : A rural island community steeped in the mystical superstitions of its founders and haunted by an unsolved murder is upended by the return of the suspected killer in this deeply atmospheric novel. Emery Blackwood’s life was forever changed on the eve of her high school graduation, when the love of her life, August Salt, was accused of murdering her best friend, Lily. Now, she is doing what her teenage self swore she never would: living a quiet existence among the community that fractured her world in two. She’d once longed to run away with August, eager to escape the misty, remote shores of Saiorse Island and chase new dreams; now, she maintains her late mother’s tea shop and cares for her ailing father. But just as the island, rooted in folklore and tradition, begins to show signs of strange happenings, August returns for the first time in fourteen years and unearths the past that no one wants to remember. August Salt knows he is not welcome on Saiorse, not after the night that changed everything. As a fire raged on at the Salt family orchard, Lily Morgan was found dead in the dark woods, shaking the bedrock of their tight-knit community and branding August a murderer. When he returns to bury his mother’s ashes, he must confront the people who turned their backs on him and face the one wound from the past that has never healed—Emery. But the town has more than one reason to want August gone, and the emergence of deep betrayals and hidden promises that span generations threatens to reveal the truth behind Lily’s death once and for all. Evocative and compelling, Spells for Forgetting is a vivid exploration of lost love and the unraveling of a small town and its many secrets. . . . #spellsforforgetting #adrienneyoung (at My Cozy Life) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cck9RReu06R/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Happy Wednesday! . How many books do you have in your March book haul? . I have 16 from NetGalley (2nd photo) + I won 1 + I purchased 3 = 20 books in March. . I think that I’m most excited to read Adrienne Young’s (wrote Fable/Namesake) adult fantasy Spells for Forgetting. . 📖Book blurb📖 From New York Times bestselling author Adrienne Young comes a deeply atmospheric story about ancestral magic, an unsolved murder, and a second chance at true love. Emery Blackwood's life changed forever the night her best friend was found dead and the love of her life, August Salt, was accused of murdering her. Years later, she is doing what her teenage self swore she never would: living a quiet existence on the misty, remote shores of Saoirse Island and running the family's shop, Blackwood's Herbal Tonics and Tea Leaf Readings. But when the island, rooted in folklore and magic, begins to show signs of strange happenings, Emery knows that something is coming. The morning she wakes to find that every single tree on Saoirse has turned color in a single night, August returns for the first time in fourteen years and unearths the past that the town has tried desperately to forget. August knows he is not welcome on Saiorse, not after the night everything changed. As a fire raged on at the Salt family orchard, Lily Morgan was found dead in the dark woods, shaking the bedrock of their tight-knit community and branding August a murderer. When he returns to bury his mother's ashes, he must confront the people who turned their backs on him and face the one wound from the past that has never healed—Emery. But the town has more than one reason to want August gone, and the emergence of deep betrayals and hidden promises spanning generations threaten to reveal the truth behind Lily's mysterious death once and for all. . . . . #spellsforforgetting #adrienneyoung #stmartinspress #netgalley #netgalleyreads #netgalleyreviewer #netgalleyarc #netgalleyreader #allthebooksmarch22 #marchbookhaul #marchbookhaul2022 #bookstack #fantasy #fantasybooks #fantasybook #fantasyreads #fantasyreader #fantasyreaders #fantasyreadersofinstagram #bookdragon #bookdragons #tessatalksbooks #bookblogger (at Lake Davidson) https://www.instagram.com/p/CbvGixirtsZ/?utm_medium=tumblr