If it wasn’t set on June 1st onwards, I could easily read this novel during the Halloween season.īut it also felt such a summer read, that I can’t decide whether it would feel the same to read it during autumn or not. Other than that, I fell in love with Shea Ernshaw’s writing style, her unique voice, the eerie and otherworldly settings she created, as well as the dark enough narration and descriptions. Interesting because I could experience first hand what was happening throughout the whole novel, but at the same time confusing because I use past tenses in my own writing project.Ī couple of nights ago, for instance, being distracted by The Wicked Deep, I used present tenses for almost an entire paragraph! 😅 There is no excuse, I know.
It also uses present tenses, something which was both interesting and confusing. So, The Wicked Deep is written in first-person, apart from those sort of flashback chapters, referring to the Swan sisters and what happened two centuries ago in the city of Sparrow. I started reading this novel right before the beginning of summer, and so I was instantly hooked! It felt right! It was so eerie and dark and wicked that I couldn’t help but feel like this was going to be an unforgettable experience!īefore going deeper into spoilers, about which I’ll make sure to inform you, I want to point out the technical parts of this novel, aka the voice, the structure, the vocabulary, narration and descriptions, as well as the development of the plot and characters. And she will be forced to choose: save Bo, or save herself.”
And death comes swiftly to those who cannot resist the call of the sisters.īut only Penny sees what others cannot. Penny and Bo suspect each other of hiding secrets. The townspeople turn against one another. Mistrust and lies spread quickly through the salty, rain-soaked streets. But this year, on the eve of the sisters’ return, a boy named Bo Carter arrives unaware of the danger he has just stumbled into. Like many locals, seventeen-year-old Penny Talbot has accepted the fate of the town. Now, for a brief time each summer, the sisters return, stealing the bodies of three weak-hearted girls so that they may seek their revenge, luring boys into the harbor and pulling them under. Stones were tied to their ankles and they were drowned in the deep waters surrounding the town. Where, two centuries ago, three sisters were sentenced to death for witchery. And there are some books with which you identify so very much with, that you can’t do anything else but adore them!Īnd that’s basically what happened to me when I read The Wicked Deep, this mesmerising YA standalone novel, that I think it combines perfectly the genres of Fantasy and Magical Realism. EVERY OPINION EXPRESSED HERE IS ENTIRELY MY OWN I DON’T MEAN TO OFFEND YOU BY ANY MEANS!* *DISCLAIMER! THIS REVIEW WILL BE QUITE LONG, FILLED WITH HECTIC SPOILERS AND (POSSIBLY) A LOT OF SWEARING.
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