Earlier this month I bought a t-shirt with the quote "we are the granddaughters of the witches you could not burn." I decided to search for the origin of this quote. It appears the original author is unknown, but the quote appears as the introductory hook to the first book in this trilogy The Witches of BlackBrook. So I purchased it along with the two sequels, The Daughters of Maine and The Sisters of Salem, on the recommendation of Amazon.
The first novel alternates between the present day in a small town in upstate New York and the past, particularly Ipswich, Massachusetts in the 1600s. Of course, we know that time period includes the Salem Witch Trials. The main character, Trin, is a witch who was to be burned at the stake. She performed a spell intended to transport herself and her sisters to a safe place. Instead, all true witches present were sent to the future, dispersed among the Northeast. Trin and her two sisters spend each lifetime searching for each other, but only two succeed each time until now.
I don't want to spoil too much in the plot, as this is a kinda whodunit. And then there are two sequels which further develop the story. In all honesty though, the 3 could have been one longer book instead of 3 overlapping ones.
Greatest trilogy I've ever read? No. Terrible? Also no. A good series to get lost in when you need to escape to reality? Yep. I'll be donating the three to our collection and adding them once I have a working label printer again.
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