Garden Spells (Waverley Family, #1) in Around the Year in 52 Books

Oct 24, 2012 Cora rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: fantasy, kindle, magical-realism, 1st-in-series, american-south, abuse, north-carolina, series, woman-author, american-author

Garden Spells is the story of two sister in a small North Carolina town. Claire, the older sister, lives alone in her grandmother's house until her younger sister returns with her young daughter. The Waverly women are notorious for their special abilities. Claire makes food with the flowers and plants that grow in her garden that can affect those who eat it. Her honeysuckle wine can help you see in the dark and the apples from her apple tree gives anyone who takes a bite a vision of the most sig ...more

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Apr 03, 2019 Ketutar Jensen rated it liked it · review of another edition

This is a story of two witch sisters. One stays at home, the other runs the world, until she meets a very bad man, gets a daughter and comes back home to get away from him. Of course he finds her...
It has a very, very happy ending. Made me cry.

I liked this book. There are some things that make me like it less than 5 or even 4 stars, but I'm a little picky when it comes to such details. Don't let that stop you from reading this book :-D

I liked the story. I liked the garden. I liked the Waverley f ...more

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Aug 01, 2015 Michelle Gragg rated it liked it

I did enjoy this book. The author was a masterful storyteller and it was a fun read. The plot was very predictable in a comforting way. But about halfway through I got a feeling that I had seen the movie years ago. I checked the copyright and it was obvious that I hadn't seen this book as a movie. The more I read the more it ended up reminded me of two movies weaved together. The story is still unique and delightful but that feeling sort of diminished it for me. ...more

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