![]() ![]() Magic and romance spliced with peril is the staunchest cocktail for escapist prone teenagers. Great for kids aged between 12 and 15 depending on reading level.ĭescribed as a ‘coming-of-age story with an unconventional romance between an aloof and difficult boy who happens to be a male witch and a strong-willed, psychically sensitive schoolgirl’ you couldn’t have planned a plot that would have hooked my 13 year old self more thoroughly. ![]() I remember this as being the first book I’d read that really scared me, that lured me in, that made me feel like I’d gone to a different, darker world. The three girls have to harness their own power, not just against the supernatural malice of their aunt, but against the poverty she keeps them in and the truth she keeps from them. ![]() Gaelyn Gordon’s, at times terrifying tale, Tripswitch pitches three orphaned cousins against their evil aunt Lureene a bludger of the system, a skeamster with evil powers and the abuser of her two twin sons Cain and Abel. ![]()
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