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What Became of Magic by Paige Crutcher
3.0

A witch finds herself with a book of magic and a unlikely adventure as she tries to rescue her friend, save magic, and find the love she's always wanted. Aline Weir has never belonged, she's a young witch who can talk to ghosts, but is an outcast at school and her own family would rather she disappear, her only solace is books and her ghost friend named Dragon. When she begins hanging out at a bookstore run by three kind and mysterious women, she discovers a book called Mischief, and soon her own magic is enhanced. Aline is now 30 and finds herself walking into a mysterious magical land when her friend Dragon disappears. There she discovers Matchstick, a magical world filled with powerful beings being hunted down, and she meets Magic, a man who haunts her dreams with his handsome looks and his mysterious personality, and the connection between them is undeniable. All Aline wants to do is rescue Dragon and get back the three women who she has come to love as her own family, but she learns that there is a darker path and that a prophecy awaits her, she'll have to reunite Day and Night, free the Watcher, and figure out if she can save Magic, the one person she's fallen in love with. This was like a strange fall into a Alice in Wonderland-like story, it's magical and fun to read, but its kind of hard to follow and a bit all over the place. It's definitely whimsical and I do enjoy a quest story. It's not my favorite of Paige Crutcher's witchy stories but it definitely was a unique read.

*Thanks Netgalley and St. Martin's Press, St. Martin's Griffin for sending me an arc in exchange for an honest review*