by Nancy Werlin
Publisher: Penguin
Pub Date: September 18, 2008
Genre: Young Adult, Romance, Fantasy
Format: Print
Source: Bought
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Lucy has
nine months to break an ancient curse in order to save both herself and her
unborn daughter. Inspired by the ballad Scarborough Fair, this riveting novel
combines suspense, fantasy, and romance for an intensely page-turning and
masterfully original tale.
Lucy is seventeen when she discovers that the women of her family have been
cursed through the generations, forced to attempt three seemingly impossible
tasks or to fall into madness upon their child's birth. But Lucy is the first
girl who won't be alone as she tackles the list. She has her fiercely
protective foster parents and her childhood friend Zach beside her. Do they
have love and strength enough to overcome an age-old evil?
My
Review:
Overall, it was just okay.
YA books are very hit or miss lately and I didn’t really love this book but didn’t
hate it either.
Lucy is cursed. She doesn’t really know it yet. As far as she knows, she is
just an everyday teen.
The night of prom is when everything changed. Lucy gets assaulted, the boy doesn’t
make it and then her mother’s diary is found in her abandoned cart that reveals
everything.
The women in the family are cursed. Get pregnant at 17, have the daughter and
then spend the next 18 years captive and hoping their child cam break the curse
before it repeats all over again.
Lucy and her family work together to figure this out. Together they actually
have a chance, and Lucy becomes the one to break the curse and have the chance
at a normal life and be able to keep her daughter and watch her grow and never
have the same thing to happen to her.
Overall, it’s okay. It didn’t pull me in, it wasn’t overly boring, but it just wasn’t
something I loved. Maybe for those in the YA age would be more appealing.
