Born Wicked by Jessica Spotswood
pages: 330
released: February 2012
publisher: Putnam Juvenile
cover love: ♥♥♥♥♥

Everybody knows Cate Cahill and her sisters are eccentric. Too pretty, too reclusive, and far too educated for their own good. But the truth is even worse: they’re witches. And if their secret is discovered by the priests of the Brotherhood, it would mean an asylum, a prison ship—or an early grave. Before her mother died, Cate promised to protect her sisters. But with only six months left to choose between marriage and the Sisterhood, she might not be able to keep her word… especially after she finds her mother’s diary, uncovering a secret that could spell her family’s destruction. Desperate to find alternatives to their fate, Cate starts scouring banned books and questioning rebellious new friends, all while juggling tea parties, shocking marriage proposals, and a forbidden romance with the completely unsuitable Finn Belastra. If what her mother wrote is true, the Cahill girls aren’t safe. Not from the Brotherhood, the Sisterhood—not even from each other. (from goodreads)

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Review:

Really, it was so painful to put Born Wicked in the DNF pile. I was so infatuated with that cover (it’s soooo gorgeous) and it was written beautifully but I felt like the story was going nowhere interesting. I went into this book thinking there’d be witchcraft, spells, etc. but sadly that wasn’t the case. The supernatural elements took a major backseat to Cate’s other problems (marriage and her sisters). I decided to give up around page 120, after skimming through the next fifty or so pages and still not finding anything worth continuing.

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