I never read her Blue Bloods series but thought I would give The Witches of East End a try. It is a story of witches in a fictious New York town - North Hampton. The Beauchamps are a family of witches- mother Joanna, daughters Ingrid and Freya. They are immortal, but ever since they got busted at the Salem witch trials they have been under strict orders to live as normal people and not use their powers. As the story opens, Ingrid can no longer stand by and watch helplessly as a middle-aged co-worker struggles to conceive a child. Freya makes her first appearance in the book having sex with her fiance's brother. Though this makes her less than likable, she too is drawn back to witchcraft by her desire to help others. Even Joanna finds herself going astray. It was just ok for me through most of the book. I often found myself skimming pages just to get through the end, which I did not like. In the last part of the book, it turns out that the characters are not actually witches but figures from Norse mythology. It was assumed that the reader had some background knowledge of Norse Mythology, which I do not. I don't know if any of this is mentioned in her Blue Blood series. I think this is supposed to be the first in a series of books, I don't think I will be reading the next ones.
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