Black Candle Women
Books | Fiction / African American & Black / Women
3.6
Diane Marie Brown
A Read with Jenna Book Club Pick as Seen on the Today Show“If you like Practical Magic… you will love Black Candle Women.” —Jenna Bush HagerNamed a Best Book of the Month by: Shondaland, MS. Magazine, TODAY.com, Reader’s Digest, Katie Couric Media, AARP Sisters, Goodreads, BookRiotA warm and wry family drama with a magical twist about four generations of Black women, a family love curse, and the secrets they keep for and from each other over one very complicated yearGenerations of Montrose women—Augusta, Victoria, Willow—have always lived together in their quaint California bungalow. They keep to themselves, never venture far from home, and their collection of tinctures and spells is an unspoken bond between them. But when young Nickie Montrose brings home a boy for the first time, their quiet lives are thrown into disarray.For the family has withheld a crucial secret from Nickie all these years: any person a Montrose woman falls in love with will die. Their surprise guest forces each woman to reckon with her own past choices and mistakes. And as new truths about the curse emerge, they're set on a collision course dating back to 1950s New Orleans’s French Quarter—where a hidden story in a mysterious book may just hold the answers they seek in life and in love…“Richly imagined and elegantly told, with plenty of satisfying secrets, heartaches, and twists.”—Sadeqa Johnson, New York Times bestselling author of The House of Eve, a Reese's Book Club Pick“Propulsive and poignant, Black Candle Women concocts an intoxicating potion of warmth, wisdom, and wonder.” —Ava DuVernay
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Author
Diane Marie Brown
Pages
368
Publisher
Harlequin
Published Date
2023-02-28
ISBN
0369719700 9780369719706
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"⭐️⭐️⭐️3/4"
Sher Free✌️
"I enjoyed reading this. The way things were revealed from the different perspectives. Each person having their own troubles with love and how the curse impacted each of them differently. None of the women were the same personality. "
J. Marie
"This story follows 4 women in the Montrose family and the secrets they are keeping from each other. I loved the spiritual voodoo/hoodoo magic elements that laid the foundation for the story. I though I was going to get more of a New Orleans feel but that was missing, except in the flashbacks and even then, it didn't feel like New Orleans. This story is told from each of the women's POV. Usually I don't care for anything more than 2 POVs but I thought it was well done here. I do wish we got more of Victoria's and Willow's story. This story does have the pesky miscommunication trope, which I loathe. I liked the elements of the flashbacks but sometimes I was confused about if I was reading a flashback or present day, it just didn't seem to flow. The story is also slow paced with the ending feeling a bit rushed with drastic character development. I can absolutely see this book being adapted for a limited series and would tune in! Overall, I enjoyed it but sometimes the story felt disjointed, which is why I gave it 3 stars."
Keana Patterson
"I wanted to like this book, so much so that I renewed it at the library 4 times to finish it (it’s not a long book, was just so boring I couldn’t read more than a chapter at a time). The plot went nowhere. Character development was really lacking. Ending was very unsatisfying. Writing didn’t excite me at any point. I have it two stars because the idea is good, just poorly executed. Big sigh."
Christina Gaspard