Our Crooked Hearts
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Average rating3.8
Secrets. Lies. Super-bad choices. Witchcraft. This is Our Crooked Hearts, a darkly gripping contemporary fantasy from Melissa Albert, the New York Times bestselling author of The Hazel Wood Every line reads like an incantation, and the result is a book pulsing with magic, one that holds the reader firmly under its spell." --V.E. Schwab, author of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue "A riveting story that grips you like a spell until you're too deep to emerge unscathed." --Angeline Boulley, author of Firekeeper's Daughter The suburbs, right now . . . Seventeen-year-old Ivy's summer break kicks off with an accident, a punishment, and a mystery: a stranger whose appearance in the middle of the road, in the middle of the night, heralds a string of increasingly unsettling events. As the days pass, Ivy grapples with eerie offerings, corroded memories, and a secret she's always known--that there's more to her mother than meets the eye. The city, back then . . . Dana has always been perceptive. And the summer she turns sixteen, with the help of her best friend and an ambitious older girl, her gifts bloom into a heady fling with the supernatural. As the trio's aspirations darken, they find themselves speeding toward a violent breaking point. Years after it began, Ivy and Dana's shared story will come down to a reckoning among a daughter, a mother, and the dark forces they never should've messed with.
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Thank you to Flatiron Books for providing an e-arc of this fantastic Melissa Albert novel via Netgalley.
Wow.
Our Crooked Hearts is a rollercoaster. Part magic, part thriller, part coming of age.
The book follows Ivy, a teenager who feels there is something... off... in her life. As she unravels the mysteries of her past, she finds more than she bargains for that upends her entire life.
This is a dual timeline book. One part current, Ivy's timeline, one part her mother's timeline when she was a teenager. I loved reading the juxtaposition between Ivy's teenage interpretation of her mother and then reading her mother's teen years and how she became the way she is.
This is a must read for those who love creepy, magical, badass female characters coming into their own.
This and Eric A. Craig novels are probably the closest I will ever come to reading horror. This book explores the dark, malevolent side of magic that's usually seen in horror stories. Be warned if you're an animal lover, there are multiple, graphic descriptions of rabbits being killed or showing up places dead in this book. But at it's heart it's a story about a mother who made a very dangerous mistake when she was younger trying to protect and also relate to a daughter who knows that her mother is not all she says she is.
Rating: 2.13 leaves out of 5
Characters: 2/5
Cover: 5/5
Story: 0.5/5
Writing: 1/5
Genre: Fantasy/Historical Fiction
Type: Audiobook
Worth?: Yeah
Want to thank Netgalley and publishers for giving me the chance to listen to this book. What a disappoint. The beginning was creepy and sucked you in. If the whole book was just the mother's view I would have rated it higher. I feel bad for even comparing it to The Craft. Actually this book sucked so hard you could say it was like the sequel. Both were utter trash. It started out so strong and fizzled into a shit pile, and that is putting it nicely.
I know I rated it a 2.13 but I am rounding down to a 1. The cover is gorgeous but the story is utter trash and it doesn't deserve even a 2.
**SPOILERS FROM THIS POINT DOWN**
Ivy, which I hate to share a name with, is a self-centered brat. She is a good reason why having a kid sounds horrible. Ivy is a brat who thinks of herself over others. Instead of letting her mother explained she ended up just being a grade A Bitch about EVERYTHING. Even till the end when she shared the same guilt as her mom. I get the whole wanting your mom to feel proud of you and the like but at the end of the day if you can't even admit to her being right to a certain degree you are a child and should be treated as such.
And this is why I don't do YA's because 9/10 the main character is Mary Sue/ Gary Stu.
