A Spell to Wake the Dead

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A Spell to Wake the Dead by Nicole Lesperance

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


Mazzy and Nora are best friends and pagan magic users in Cape Cod, along with their mutual friend, Elliot (who Mazzy now has a crush on, in their senior year of high school) Mazzy is the cautious witch, researching everything (which helps her anxiety) and Nora is the risk taker finding spells online, like the one she insists they do at the beach under the full moon, a spell to uncover things.

They uncover a dead woman washed up on the beach. And then another one. It seems like they're now hooked into the Hand of Nepthys a group of magic users twisting Egyptian mythos, working to resurrect the dead (while making many dead of their own)

Detective Huld of the police seems to think they know more than they're saying. The kids think it's possible she's part of the Hand. Things go bad from worse as the dead woman's spirit attaches herself to Nora both amping up her powers but forcing to continue to find the dead.

Mazzy and Elliot have to solve the mystery of these women if they have any hope of saving Nora.

My biggest issues with this (and they were relatively minor) is we didn't really get to know Nora and Mazzy much before the spell. So as Nora starts changing we haven't even had a chance to connect with her. She just starts out annoying and gets worse. I did however like Mazzy and Elliot. There is some weirdness with the police that was hard to swallow but overall I enjoyed the story. It moved along well. The magic was cool and the red herrings worked. It's worth the read.





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