The Rules of Magic

It kills me to give a Hoffman book less than 4 stars but The Rules of Magic is just......not that great. If you are going into it looking to recapture the charm and incredible storytelling of Practical Magic, it just doesn't get there. If you are looking for some nostalgia, it's there but it's muted. I don't know. A lot of this didn't work for me. I was only really into the story when it was about Jet and her storyline kind of goes flat before the halfway mark. This is really about the curse, and whether you read PM or not, just hearing about the curse over and over again gets old. It's the driving factor behind everything the characters do in this story, and I think I wanted it to be more about the bond between sisters and family.
It is what it is and I didn't love it. Hoffman's writing chops are usually set at such a higher caliber than this.