Andie’s body was never recovered, and Sal was assumed by most to be guilty of abduction and murder. The original investigation concluded with most of the evidence pointing to Sal, who was found dead in the woods, apparently by suicide. For her senior capstone project, Pip researches the disappearance of former Fairview High student Andie, last seen on April 18, 2014, by her younger sister, Becca. Pip has known and liked Sal since childhood he’d supported her when she was being bullied in middle school. Modern-day Ireland is still haunted by a dark history of sectarian violence ignorance of that history feels especially offensive in a story of clashing magical traditions such as this.Īn entertaining diversion into queer witchcraft and dark magic marred by ignorance of its setting.Įveryone believes that Salil Singh killed his girlfriend, Andrea Bell, five years ago-except Pippa Fitz-Amobi. North American references and slang abound, but the descriptions of religious life ring most hollow: Dayna’s father is leader of a formerly Catholic church yet is called “reverend” and, of course, is married and has a child.
The Irish setting, however, reads as bizarrely unresearched on every level, from the linguistic to the cultural, this is a North American small town transplanted in whole to another country. The vivacious, twisty plot brims with satisfyingly dark magic supported by a diverse and well-developed cast of characters, including Dayna’s friend Reagan, who is dark-skinned and whose Nigerian mother attends mosque. Chemistry sparks between Dayna and the group’s quasi-leader, a girl named Meiner their romance blooms with charm and realism.
Dayna has more than enough trouble to deal with even before a group of rival witches shows up. A coven of modern witches seeks power from ancient Celtic gods.ĭayna Walsh may be a witch, but magic is just one of the ways she’s othered in her small Irish town: She struggles with OCD and was just outed as bisexual-an especially painful revelation given that her father is the reverend of the local church.
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