Practical Magic: 25th Anniversary Edition (The Practical Magic Series)
*25th Anniversary Edition*—with an Introduction by the Author!
The Owens sisters confront the challenges of life and love in this bewitching novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Rules of Magic, Magic Lessons, and The Book of Magic.
For more than two hundred years, the Owens women have been blamed for everything that has gone wrong in their Massachusetts town. Gillian and Sally have endured that fate as well: as children, the sisters were forever outsiders, taunted, talked about, pointed at. Their elderly aunts almost seemed to encourage the whispers of witchery, with their musty house and their exotic concoctions and their crowd of black cats. But all Gillian and Sally wanted was to escape. One will do so by marrying, the other by running away. But the bonds they share will bring them back—almost as if by magic...
“Splendid...Practical Magic is one of [Hoffman's] best novels, showing on every page her gift for touching ordinary life as if with a wand, to reveal how extraordinary life really is.”—Newsweek
“[A] delicious fantasy of witchcraft and love in a world where gardens smell of lemon verbena and happy endings are possible.”—Cosmopolitan
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Okay, this is potentially controversial for a fantasy bookish girlie, but I actually have not seen the movie Practical Magic 😬 But I've always wanted to, so keeping to my efforts of reading before watching, I decided to pick this one up so I can watch the movie during spooky season. Now the second potentially controversial statement I have is… I hope the movie is better. It might be a little bit because of the age of this book or it might have to do with the perspective being third person omniscient but this was not my favorite read. I liked the idea of it and I can see where this could make for a very good movie. I, unfortunately, didn't feel super attached to the sisters and I didn't feel the spooky/witchy/magic vibes as much as I thought I would. It did pick up in the back half for me but I also couldn't get over how the whole book was essentially one long chapter. It wasn't bad, but I think I hyped it up in my brain more than what I got from it. I am very excited to watch the movie though and maybe I even watch the second one that just came out… who knows!
Any resemblance that you might expect between this book and that movie is practically nonexistent. The book is so, so, so much better... yeah, we always say that...but it’s so evident in this case. I don’t know how you could take the wonderful magic of this book and do it movie justice. This book is luscious and sensual and enchanting and love conquers all. Read it. You have to read it.
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