I loved this book when I originally read it. I bought extra copies so some bookcrossers can read it before the author comes to the 2010 Boston UnConvention!

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Will be taken to the July 2010 Boston Bookcrossing Meeting.

Got this at July MeetUP, to read before the Unconvention!

I read this for the Unconvention but I wasn't crazy about it. I liked the sense of place in Salem(which I don't know well but seemed accurate) but I was less interested in the story. I think mainly it was the paranormal parts that I found less interesting. Towner/Sophya's story was worth it on it's own for me, without the lace reading and witches and premonitions.

Planned for release at the 2010 Boston UnConvention, perhaps for the release walk or some other way!

My wife Nancy picked this book up--and got it autographed--at the Boston UnConvention.

My wife's rating. She found the book disappointing overall, and was particularly unhappy with the ending, which she found very confusing.

KateKintail is looking for this book, and I am about to mail it to her.

I mailed this book to katekintail.

Thank you so much for sending this to me! I'll put my review here when I have time!

This book will be on display at the 2011 Convention

EDIT 12/15/11:
I finally got a chance to read it and had this to say--
I thoroughly enjoyed this book. True, I might not have loved it quite so much if I hadn't been to Salem and to many of the locations in this book. But I HAVE, thanks to the 2010 BookCrossing Unconvention in Boston. I was fascinated by the concept of lace reading after hearing Brunonia Barry speak about it at the uncon, and it was a pleasure to read a book that revolves around this "fictional" fortune-telling device.

Towner is an interesting main character, for an unreliable narrator. I certainly enjoyed getting to know her, including her abilities, and her family and world. Rafferty is believable. Cal is unredeemably evil/crazy/mean. Eva's a character I would have loved to reach into the book and hug. But Towner is the central figure, someone we want to figure out and get to know, someone we feel for and want to triumph.

The setting and culture make for some interesting wrinkles (especially when it comes to those Calvinists) and unique situations. I love the big house and the islands and things like light tag and lace reading and all that are described in such detail that they just have to be real.

I never quite trust books about twins (I've seen soap operas and bent perceptions dozens of times). But the twist brings something new that makes you think.

This book will be on display at the 2011 BookCrossing Convention.

I won this hardcover book in a raffle at the 10th Anniversary BookCrossing Convention, hosted by BCinDC.

I picked it out of several autographed books that were offered to the prize winner, because I enjoyed the book very much and would be delighted to pass it on.

Speaking of passing it on, thanks to my 4 BookCrossing friends who had the book before me, who all contributed to my receiving it here at the Convention.

Reserved for the First Sentences Virtual Bookbox, hosted by collectorkerri.