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The Wicked Deep

"This moment-this boy-could tear me apart and upend everything.  But in the heat of the cottage, wind rattling the glass in the windows, rain pelting the roof, with our skin flecked with salt water, I don't care."
Welcome to Sparrow, OR.  A small coastal town has been haunted every June by three sisters for the past 200 years.  The Swan sisters were sentenced to death for witchery, and on June 1st of each year they return to Sparrow to inhabit the bodies of young girls and steal the life of young boys.
Seventeen-year-old Penny Talbot has lived on the small lighthouse island outside of Sparrow her entire life.  She has led a quiet life with her mother and tried her hardest to avoid the Swan festival that takes place each June drawing in hundreds of tourist.  This year it isn't so easy.  Bo Carter, an outsider, has come to town to stay for the summer and he changes who Penny thought she was.  
"Loving someone is dangerous.  It gives you something to lose."
The Wicked Deep, by Shea Ernshaw, was a wonderful book and I'm glad I stumbled upon it.  I really enjoyed reading it.  I first grabbed it because I love witchy books, but at it's core it's also a really beautiful and painful love story.  It's filled with all kind of delightful plot twist that constantly had me needing to read "Just one more chapter."  The characters were wide spread and all extremely likable.  I especially love Penny and Bo.  The author did a really great job of showing the readers the emotions and turmoil both felt.  


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