sarahsbookstack's profile picture

sarahsbookstack 's review for:

A Lullaby for Witches by Hester Fox
3.0
mysterious medium-paced

Augusta is fed up with being a tour guide at an old Salem jail and finds a job working at the Harlow House museum. She discovers a little known about Harlow, Margaret. There is hardly any records of her and no birth or death certificates. Augusta starts to try and find the mystery of Margaret.

We get to see the past and the present in dual timelines. We see Margaret as she dabbles with dark magic though the townfolk see her as a healer.

This still had the very Gothic feel that Fox is known for. You have to suspend belief near the end as these two worlds dangerously collide.
The ending was a little bit of a disappointment to me as I wish we got to see more of what Margaret could do in the present.