The Book of Magic- Alice Hoffman

What can I even say?

I had no doubts that Alice Hoffman’s final book to end the Practical Magic saga would be absolute perfection. I have never been let down by a Hoffman novel & from the first time I discovered The Owens family, I knew I wanted to be a part of their world.

To end a curse, be prepared to give up everything. 

The Book of Magic addresses the Owens family curse that had destroyed every instance of love since it was first conjured more than three hundred years earlier. The time has come to finally break this curse after young Kylie’s boyfriend is struck by a car and lies helpless in a coma. She is willing to pay the ultimate cost- a life for a life- in order to save her beloved. After uncovering the truth about who her family is and what they are capable of, kept hidden from her and her sister Antonia under the protective eye of their mother, Sally, Kylie knows where she must go to find answers. Across an ocean, in the first Essex county, in the English countryside past Devotion field lies the curse’s elixir. 

Aware of the grave danger Kylie has placed herself in and the dark path she must cross, her mother, Aunt Gillian, and Aunt Franny set off after her. 

Vengeance battles salvation and depths of love is once again put to the test as the Owens race against the clock. Can the curse be broken & will the cost end up being to high? 

It took me quite a long time to finish this book for two reasons: 1) I don’t just read an Alice Hoffman novel; I study it; I take notes and 2) I wasn’t ready to walk away from the old house on Magnolia Street. 

The Book of Magic is coated in lessons of courage, loss, magic, sacrifice, and most importantly love. Hoffman’s writing doesn’t hide the turmoil that can go hand in hand when it comes to matters of the heart but it does remind us that the right love is worth risking everything for. I could gush over this series forever and my DMs are wiiiiide open for that! 

For everyone who has yet to pick up a Hoffman novel, go now! Run! Because life is too short to settle for mediocrity and to simply live a little. One must choose “live a lot.” 

5 stars, of course!