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Title: The Burning of Isobel Key
Author: Jen McConnel
Genre: New Adult Fiction, Supernatural Fiction
Elements:
Publisher: BrightFish Press
Format: PDF, 286 Pages
ISBN: 9780615684680
Release Date: September 14, 2012
Source: Tour Host {Reading Addiction Book Tours}
Rating: 4.5/5
Rating: 4.5/5
Summary: Lou is in the middle of a quarter-life crisis. Ever since college, she’s lacked direction, working as a clerk in a local bookstore. But when she quits her job just before the winter holidays, Lou must do some serious soul searching to overcome her fears of straying from the mainstream. On a whim, she accompanies her best friend, Tammy, to Scotland for the winter holidays, but the vacation soon turns into an emotional roller coaster.
When she becomes embroiled in a hunt for information about Isobel Key, a woman falsely accused of witchcraft in the seventeenth century, Lou opens up to her intuition and makes a startling discovery about her own heritage.
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Excerpt:
As the flames rose, Isobel stopped cursing
and instead started to make a shrill, screaming whine, much like the sound of the
sap boiling in the logs at her feet. It was
so eerie, so utterly un-human that even the executioner, a man long seasoned to
the sounds of death, wanted to cover his ears and sob into the skirt of the nearest
woman.
The sound carried from the village green, through the streets and wynds,
penetrating the windows and doors shut tight against the execution. It was as if not attending could erase the sin
of allowing it to happen in the first place.
No one who heard that sound could reconcile it with the once melodious voice
of the burning woman. The evil thing at the
stake was not a woman they remembered or recognized.
Their memories were as short as the day, from the morning after her terrible
deeds were revealed and the witch was brought into town bound in the back of a pony
cart. It was suddenly as if none of the villagers
knew the poor creature at all. None could
recall seeking her help, and none would avow that she had always been kind and ready
to bake breads for town feasts or to watch the little ones play while their parents
danced together. Kindness lingers less than
murder, for it was obvious to all that the woman had murdered at least three souls,
if not countless others. Justice was being
served, and her blood would not stain the god fearing hands in St. Andrews. She was not their responsibility, and they wanted
to take no claim for her evil.
About this Author:
She is also an active reviewer for Voices of Youth Advocates (VOYA), and proud member of SCBWI, NCWN, and SCWW.
A Michigander by birth, she now lives and writes in the beautiful state of North Carolina. When she isn't crafting worlds of fiction, she teaches writing composition at a community college. Once upon a time, she was a middle school teacher, a librarian, and a bookseller, but those are stories for another time.
Follow Jen on Twitter @ProDeaWriter
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