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Spells for Forgetting
by Adrienne Young
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 4 stars
Spells for Forgetting is a story about August and Emery. August had left the island after a fire that had killed Emery’s best friend, which he was accused of. After years he comes back to bury his mother’s ashes there.
“There are spells for breaking and spells for mending. But there are no spells for forgetting”
I have read more adult fantasy books as of this year, but haven’t enjoyed them as much as the young adult or new adult ones to be honest. It is always a gamble if I’m going to enjoy the book. I have read more books by Adrienne Young and enjoyed those and as expected I enjoyed this one as well, seeing as I read the book in one day.
The book starts of quite slow and it has multiple POV’s and dual timelines which we follow. While I really liked the dual timeline, even when they came at inconvenient times haha, the multiple POV’s weren’t always. I liked the POV’s of August and Emery, but those of the others, which had only one chapter throughout the whole book, seemed a bit unnecessary. I think it would’ve brought the story more dept if the POV’s were kept with August and Emery and what happened in the others were incorporated in another way.
The magic present in the book was really subtle and I liked how it fitted the overall feel of this book. It complemented that perfectly! It is beautifully written as a layer to the characters and their stories instead of being really present.
I really liked the characters. They are noticeably older, but I was really blown away by the way they different from the dual timelines, in correspondence with their age. It was really cleverly written and it gave the characters a lot of depts.
The romance is truly a case of second chance, and I really liked how it developed. I do think a lot of miscommunications or waiting could’ve been prevented by the characters just communication with each other. On the other hand, than there wouldn’t have been such a story hahaha.
Overall, I really liked this book. It is a bit predictable, but is still enjoyable to read. It felt like a comfort read to be honest, very calm and serene instead of high intensity and fast-paced, which was a nice contrast to the other books I’ve recently read.
Spells for Forgetting is a story about August and Emery. August had left the island after a fire that had killed Emery’s best friend, which he was accused of. After years he comes back to bury his mother’s ashes there.
“There are spells for breaking and spells for mending. But there are no spells for forgetting”
I have read more adult fantasy books as of this year, but haven’t enjoyed them as much as the young adult or new adult ones to be honest. It is always a gamble if I’m going to enjoy the book. I have read more books by Adrienne Young and enjoyed those and as expected I enjoyed this one as well, seeing as I read the book in one day.
The book starts of quite slow and it has multiple POV’s and dual timelines which we follow. While I really liked the dual timeline, even when they came at inconvenient times haha, the multiple POV’s weren’t always. I liked the POV’s of August and Emery, but those of the others, which had only one chapter throughout the whole book, seemed a bit unnecessary. I think it would’ve brought the story more dept if the POV’s were kept with August and Emery and what happened in the others were incorporated in another way.
The magic present in the book was really subtle and I liked how it fitted the overall feel of this book. It complemented that perfectly! It is beautifully written as a layer to the characters and their stories instead of being really present.
I really liked the characters. They are noticeably older, but I was really blown away by the way they different from the dual timelines, in correspondence with their age. It was really cleverly written and it gave the characters a lot of depts.
The romance is truly a case of second chance, and I really liked how it developed. I do think a lot of miscommunications or waiting could’ve been prevented by the characters just communication with each other. On the other hand, than there wouldn’t have been such a story hahaha.
Overall, I really liked this book. It is a bit predictable, but is still enjoyable to read. It felt like a comfort read to be honest, very calm and serene instead of high intensity and fast-paced, which was a nice contrast to the other books I’ve recently read.