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Synopsis
In a South Carolina town, where little has changed since the Civil War, Ethan is drawn to Lena, with whom he shares a psychic connection and whose family hides a secret.
Comments
A fairly mild book for the supernatural genre. Had a lot of Civil War history and history of the South. It’s interesting as the story is told from the first person perspective of a teen boy.
Language
Level 1, 2 [?]
Sexual Content
Teen boys read magazines with pictures of girls in bikinis laying on the hood of cars. An older teen girl uses her powers of being a Siren to bewitch boys to do her biding, a fairly sexualized character. Teens kiss and make out-mild description.
Alcohol/Drugs
Teens drink peppermint schnapps and peach alcoholic drinks.
Violence/Disturbing
Some ghosts, spirits, supernatural things happen. Not particularly creepy.
Social/Family
A teen’s parents are both dead and she lives with a series of relatives. A teen boy’s mother died in a car accident and his father is very depressed and pretty much absent.
Religion/Spiritual
People cannot resist ‘the lure of the cards’ and the chance to change their own destiny. There are many pagan and vodoo rituals throughout the story. Some people have supernatural powers, specialized witch powers; people who can cast spells, control people, shape shift, some demonic powers. People can ‘go Dark’, meaning that they become evil, some not by choice.
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