pickAmidst the historic play-by-play, Roach takes the time to really focus on 6 specific women of the trials: How did they each come to be living in Salem, 1692 (indisputably a WRONG place & WRONG time)? What fears, hopes, misunderstandings could‘ve led innocent women to confess? What traumas & biases, left to fester, could have brought about such hysteria?
This book doesn‘t pretend to have all the answers. But it‘s important to ask the questions.
Read this many years ago but it has stuck with me. This is more of historical fiction than Spooky, but it does talk about the Salem Witch Trails.
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panThis book was horrible. It was sloppy and rushed at the end; there were too many things that didn‘t go together. Voodoo shared with a white woman, astral projection, demons, St. Teresa of Avila, and Salem. You can‘t throw all that together and expect it to work! A really bad quick read.
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pickSo good! This deep, well researched, and expansive exploration of what happened during the 1692 Salem witch trials was compelling and propulsive. This is the perfect example of why narrative nonfiction is fantastic. Perfect for the season, this 18 hour tome flew by! #BookspinBingo @TheAromaofBooks
so-soI have mixed feelings about this book. The main timeline involving Connie is rather dry and condescending. Hence, my new pet peeve the witch books that are critical of modern witches trope. Connie is a researcher who studies early colonialism but for the summer, she is clearing out her mother's childhood home. The other timelines are mostly from Deliverance and Mercy, who were caught in the Salem witch trials.
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