Our Crooked Hearts by Melissa Albert

This was recommended to me by Amazon, I guess because I like horror and stories of the craft.  I will call it "readable".  

I have to say, after digitizing Donnie Darko for a teacher, I was definitely a little apprehensive of the creepy bunny on the cover.  But, this was not scary.  

In the present day, in a typical white American suburb, Ivy has always felt something was "off" about her mother, long suspecting clairvoyance or special knowledge of herbs, etc.  But as things get weirder as Ivy and her older brother grow, they start understanding their mother and her best friend Fee are witches.  We flash back to when Dana was a teen herself in a very urban and poor city, learning about her abilities.  There are several witches who come into Dana, Fee's, and Ivy's lives throughout their stories, and the reader must determine, for lack of a better way of describing it, who is Good Witch and who is a Bad Witch.  All whole navigating typical teenhood like cliques and homework, societal norms in wealth and poverty, and a lot of dead bunnies.

Why I rate this readable and not good is the changing point of view, not just in flashback/forward.  It changes from 1st to 3rd within the time periods.  So sometimes Ivy or Dana narrates their own story, sometimes an omniscient narrator is telling the story.  I wish the author chose one and stuck with it.   

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