The first third of the book was hard to get through as it seemed to plod along at an incredibly slow pace while dropping foreshadowing hints at the end of every section. I was getting quite tired with it, until some of the foreshadowed events came to fruition in the narrative. Then it became quite captivating. The story is told from the point of view of the daughter of Martha Carrier, an accused witch at the Salem Witch trials. The novel has some beautiful prose, if a bit uneven due to the storytelling in the beginning, but it's fascinating (as I always find the topic of the witch trials to be) and really injects the event with humanity--love, despair, disbelief, etc. I may or may not have teared up a bit at the end. It ends up being something of a relatable tome on mother/daughter relationships. I enjoyed that, as well.

Recommended to those that are also fascinated by Salem witch trials, historical fiction (the writer is a descendant of Martha Carrier herself and sometimes it reads much more historically than ficticiously), and daughters.