| The Wishing Garden Book Review by Diane Wilkes If you would like to purchase this book, click here As a huge Alice Hoffman fan, I was rather appalled when I came upon Christy YorkeÂs Magic Spells on the bookshelf at Borders several months ago. It seemed clear that the plot was cribbed from Practical Magic but being a book slut of the first order, I bought and read it anyway. I was impressed against my will with YorkeÂs writing style, which also owes a considerable debt to Hoffman, and even though the book was derivative, I found it a compelling read. More compelling, however, was the chapter snippet in the back of the book for YorkeÂs upcoming novel, The Wishing Garden . It was reasonably enticing, but the real allure was that the protagonist Savannah Dawson was an ad exec by day, but a tarot reader by night . Well, I began to haunt the fiction shelves, searching between Yamamoto and Young regularly, even though I knew it wasnÂt scheduled to be out for some months. It officially went on sale August 1st, but IÂm happy to say one of the bookstores in my area sometimes puts books out a little early, and I was able to purchase it a few days before the publishing date. I finished The Wishing Garden yesterday, and found myself saddened to reach the last page. This was not because I was disappointed in the book, but because I wanted to find out what happened next to several of the characters. As far as IÂm concerned, thereÂs no higher accolade for a book than that. | |
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