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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Two catch phrases ascribed to this book are “The Witches of Eastwick meets Desperate Housewives” and “A circle of friends will support you through bad times. A circle of witches can drag you through hell.” With that kind of advertising this book seemed right up my alley … reading wise. The reality of it all … not so much! Haven Woods seems like the perfect, picturesque little town. Perfect houses, perfect lives, almost perfect everything. We meet the town “clique”, thirteen women who seem to have the perfect lives. Everything they have ever wished for. Until one of them goes off the rails and commits suicide, not all of a sudden nothing is so perfect anymore. As these women try to restore order to their lives by bringing their number back to the magical thirteen the reader begins to understand why their lives are so perfect. It seems everything comes at a cost, even if that cost is family. As I stated earlier this is the kind of book I would normally enjoy but unfortunately I did not. I found the characters to be a little cliché, the situations (particularly near then end of the book) seemed almost cartoon like and the end of the book, which should have been the “big scene”, was just boring. I have read Ms. Maloney’s The Dry Spell, which I thought was really original and enthralling. I am sorry to say that I cannot repeat those words about The Thirteen.
With The Thirteen, Moloney has constructed a compellingly uncanny narrative, binding the tropes of small town paranoia and cliquishness with the chokehold of family obligations and religious fervour, and the very real claustrophobia of poverty and desperation. While the nasty, scary stuff really is nasty and scary, Moloney also excels at the non-supernatural horror: parents’ anxiety for their children, ordinary people’s terror in the face of crippling mortgage payments and the fears we all face just getting through our day-to-day lives. What’s worse – making a pact with a demon to have things go your way, or putting your morals aside to pay the bills? Pertenece a las series editorialesPremiosListas de sobresalientes
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Paula and her daughter return to Haven Woods as Paula’s mother is ill and has been placed in the local hospital. This visit is also an opportunity for Paula to decide what the next step in her life will be, as she just lost her job and her twelve year old daughter Rowan, has just been expelled from school. Little does she know that coming home is possibly the worst thing she could have done. The local witches have plans for her and her daughter.
The Thirteen isn’t a really scary book but it is very creepy. Witches, spells, magic and horror combine in this dark story and show how far some women are willing to go to make life better for themselves and their families. I probably would have enjoyed this book more if I had been able to simply accept what was going on but I found I had a lot of questions that for the most part went unanswered. ( )