This was offered to me with no prior knowledge of the book or its author. It sounded intriguing so I leapt at the chance to give it a read. It got set to the side for a bit while my life took a wild few turns, but thankfully I managed to get to it before the end of the year.
Thanks so much to the author as well as St. Martin’s Press via NetGalley for the review copy.
Cordelia Bone’s meticulously crafted life and career in Dallas are crashing down around her thanks to a philandering husband with criminal debts.
When her older, carefree sister, Eustace—a cannabis grower in Boulder, calls to inform her the great aunt they never met has died and they must travel to a small town in Connecticut to deal with the estate, she sees an opportunity to unload the house and save herself.
But once there, the sisters learn they are getting much more than they bargained for. The Victorian mansion they stand to inherit is bound in a dynasty trust controlled by their late aunt’s aging attorney who insists they inhabit the house and retain it but keeps them in the dark about the peculiar rituals of their ancestors. Not to mention a sexy, tattooed groundskeeper with a shrouded past who refuses to leave the carriage house and a crypt full of dead relatives looming at the property line.
As both women grapple with their current predicament, they come face to face with a haunting family secret, the truth of what happened to their mother, and the enemy that’s been stalking them from the shadows for generations. In a twisting torrent of terror and blood, the sisters must uncover the power within them to heal their fractured relationship, reverse their mysteriously declining health, and claim the lineage they wanted to escape but now must embrace if they are to survive at Bone Hill.
The Witches of Bone Hill is the story of Cordelia Bone and her sister Eustace. Cordelia is dealing with the beginnings of a messy divorce and being saddled with her husbands debts when she gets news that her great aunt has died and that she and Eustace are the only remaining heirs and must go to Connecticut to deal with the estate. When they get there, they find out that the estate is large and haunted, and that their family has many secrets. Their aunt’s attorney insists that they must inhabit the old house until the estate is dealt with, and so Cordelia and Eustace are stuck in an ancient house, learning the spooky history of their family line.
I quite enjoyed The Witches of Bone Hill. It took me a few chapters to really get into but by the end I was reading into the wee hours and unable to put it down. The twist was actually surprising, and it was legitimately spooky at times, enough to actually scare me, which is good for a scary book!
I liked Cordelia as a character, but I really enjoyed Eustace and her growth over the book. Eustace and I have some things in common, and so it was interesting seeing myself and some of my experiences through her in this context.
All told, I really liked this book, and I would recommend it to people who like books about witches that aren’t all herbs and tea, or people who like some of T. Kingfisher’s scarier stuff. I got a really similar vibe off this book as I did from The Twisted Ones. 4/5 stars!~
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