When Rona Blackburn landed on Anathema Island more than a century ago, her otherworldly skills might have benefited friendlier neighbors. Guilt and fear instead led the island’s original eight settlers to burn “the witch” out of her home. So Rona cursed them. Fast-forward one hundred–some years: All Nor Blackburn wants is to live an unremarkable teenage life. She has reason to hope: First, her supernatural powers, if they can be called that, are unexceptional. Second, her love life is nonexistent, which means she might escape the other perverse side effect of the matriarch’s backfiring curse, too. But then a mysterious book comes out, promising to cast any spell for the right price. Nor senses a storm coming and is pretty sure she’ll be smack in the eye of it. In her second novel, Leslye Walton spins a dark, mesmerizing tale of a girl stumbling along the path toward self-acceptance and first love, even as the Price Guide’s malevolent author — Nor’s own mother — looms and threatens to strangle any hope for happiness.
Thoughts on the book: The Price Guide to the Occult tells the story of Nor Blackburn who was born into a well known family of witches on Anathema Island who are cursed long ago by their ancestor Rona Blackburn. All Nor wants though is to live a normal life and forget about all things witchy, especially her mother who would do anything to become a more powerful witch including harming her daughter. But Nor's mother left the island many years ago and no one had heard from her in years until suddenly her mother writes a book with all other families spells in there for the world to see. Each one has a $ price attached but is that the only cost for casting the spell. Soon the whole world is in love with Nor's mother but strange things are happening on the island. Can Nor save herself and the island before its destroyed?
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