The Wicked Deep

It has been a while since a book has captured me as much as this one has. Which is precisely the reason why it gets 5 stars. Yes, there’s insta love but to my own surprise, more than anyone else’s, it doesn’t bother me. This story just packed the right amount of drama, suspension, mystery and hope. I had to calm down right when I finished it because the ending was just sooo emotional and my head whirled with thoughts in ALL directions and my heart felt too many feelings at the same time. That a story about three dead sister coming back yearly to haunt a town, the inhabitants of which had them declared witches and murdered 200 years ago, should also be a story about love, sacrifice and hope seems contradictory but I tell you, my friends, the author does such a wonderful job. The way she draws this connection between the reader and the characters is amazing! I went into it blind, and I’m so glad I did. The story starts where quite a few YA-books start, to be honest – at a summer party after school has ended for the term. But what draws you in and keeps you glued to the pages (at least that’s what it did to me) is the saga, the so called curse, that has it’s beginning 200 years before and haunted the town every summer ever since. The Swan sisters, who died in the year of 1823, come back on June 1st every year to inhabit/borrow the body of three young unassuming girls and get their revenge on men and boys from the town. Up until the summer solstice few of the male citizens and tourists, if any, are safe from the scorned and angry women who once wandered the same streets having men, young and old alike, marvel at their beauty. Penny Talbot knows the tale about the Swan sisters as well as the rest of Sparrow, but rather than making a spectacle of it she’s always been wary. Always thinking the stories and legends to be true – one way or another. Also, she is sceptical of this one stranger, Bo. He turned up in her town without having heard of the Swan season once? Doubtful. And so begins the story about two young people trying to figure out if the sisters are actually real, and, if yes, how they can be stopped – all the while having to deal with dead men being found floating in the sea, seemingly drowned, while the town is sure who murdered them. I urge you to read this, my friends! This has everything a book needs – it’s even a little spooky when you read it at night. Also, I would so love to share my favourite quote from the book, but I fear it would give away too much. So, just know that this mysterious and eerie story also tugs at your heartstrings quite a bit.

Dieses Buch hat mich wirklich fesseln können! Ich habe es innerhalb von zwei Tagen gelesen und konnte einfach nicht aufhören :D Diese magische Atmosphäre und diese tollen Charaktere haben mich sehr überzeugt. Das Ende war so tragisch und schön zugleich und ich war etwas sprachlos.