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. Publishers Weekly stated "balancing delicate emotion and authentic suspense, the hypnotic prose pulls readers into the question of how, or if, the curse of the sisters can be broken" and that while perceptive readers may be able to predict how the story will progress, Ernshaw created "an intriguing reality in which the supernatural coexists with the mundane elements of small-town life".Hocus Pocus and Practical Magic meets the Salem Witch trials in this haunting story about three sisters on a quest for revenge-and how love may be the only thing powerful enough to stop them.
Kirkus Reviews said that "readers will drown in this finely crafted, atmospheric book" but noted that not all readers may like how quickly the main characters fall in love. But this summer, a boy, Bo Carter, comes to town, and he has as many secrets as Penny, and soon she must decide who to save: Bo, or herself. 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. The screen rights were acquired by Netflix in 2018. She knows why the sisters return each summer, why they seek revenge upon the men of the town, and how to stop them. The Wicked Deep is the debut novel from American young adult author Shea Ernshaw. Set in the small town of Sparrow, Oregon, the novel follows seventeen-year-old Penny Tabolt, who knows all about the curse that torments the town: about the Swan sisters who were accused of witchcraft and drown nearly two centuries ago. The Wicked Deep won the 2019 Leslie Bradshaw Award for Young Adult Fiction, a subcategory of the Oregon Book Award. The novel was on the New York Times Best Seller list of Main the Young Adult Hardcover category in the seventh spot. The Wicked Deep was published in 2018 by Simon Pulse, an imprint of Simon & Schuster. The Wicked Deep is the debut novel from American young adult author Shea Ernshaw.
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