Maddy and Caitlin are still in Ballyfran after moving there to live with their new stepdad. In Perfectly Preventable Deaths, the twins got to know their new town, its strange inhabitants and while Maddy began to realise she possessed skills of witchcraft, Caitlin became distracted by a new, dangerous relationships. In Precious Catastrophes, the reader follows the twins as they deal with the fall out of the previous book and all the traumas that entails.

I very much enjoyed this. I listened to this on audiobook narrated by Alison McKenna and she was absolutely fantastic. Her tone of voice for Caitlin in particular was so spot on, the characters really jumped to life for me.

The exploration of trauma and a trauma victim in this book is done so well and in a way that I can only describe as being incredibly Irish. The way Caitlin is still able to be utterly herself -sarcastic, dry, witty and sensual - while inwardly dealing with the mess that Lon made of her and using the incident to her advantage in ways that are genuinely funny, is just all written really well. Caitlin turns to prayer and the church in a way she hasn't done before - and I actually surprised myself, by really loving the local priest. His kindness and support of Caitlin in a difficult time was lovely to read, as was his frankness about aspects of religion and priesthood. I really appreciated as well seeing some of the effects of Caitlin's trauma come to her when she attempts to 'move on' with Eddie, a perfectly nice boy who would never hurt her. But that doesn't mean Caitlin's mind and body are unable to forget what had happened to her and the moments she freezes and panics in situations is very understandable and realistic. Also cheers for Caitlin explaining to Eddie that she doesn't feel up to things and him respecting that.

Caitlin's POV, which we didn't have in the first book, brought a lot to the story as a whole. Maddy is a lot more of a busy character in this now she has 'sold her soul' and begun her training with Mamo. Which means she doesn't always get some of the exciting scenes but I actually very much enjoyed having Caitlin and her humour in the driver's seat, as it was balanced out well by Maddy's shyness.

I did find myself wondering when the story was going to end in the last part of the book - mostly because there had been the pivotal activity with Our Lady of Ballyfran, Lon, and Brian and I still had 4 hours of audiobook and I couldn't understand why. It did feel a bit dragged out from the caves to the actual end of the book.

Still enjoyed this a lot. Deirdre Sullivan is able to write Irish witchy-ness and supernatural so, so well and she also really brings to life a great teenager which I have seen so many authors fail at.