{"id":3327,"date":"2014-05-13T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-13T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=3327"},"modified":"2014-05-12T07:42:52","modified_gmt":"2014-05-12T12:42:52","slug":"house-of-ivy-sorrow-by-natalie-whipple-book-review-curse-on-witch-family-unbreakable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=3327","title":{"rendered":"House of Ivy & Sorrow, by Natalie Whipple (book review) – curse on witch family, unbreakable?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"book<\/a>A long-lost father,
\na friend to the bitter end,
\na malevolent chase… to the death.<\/p>\n

Even though Nana stops inflicting icky spells on her possible boyfriend, Josephine has much to worry about as a centuries-old curse stabs at the shields protecting her witch<\/a> family’s magic roots, and her best friend must make a terrifying choice.<\/p>\n

Find this compelling tale now at your local library<\/a> or independent bookstore<\/a> to see if love and hope can break the curse’s grip on the Hemlocks.<\/p>\n

Iowa farm country as a place of deep magic – who knew?<\/p>\n

**kmm<\/p>\n

Book info<\/strong>: House of Ivy & Sorrow \/ Natalie Whipple. HarperTeen, 2014. \u00a0 [author site<\/a>]\u00a0 [publisher site<\/a>]\u00a0\u00a0 Review copy and cover image courtesy of the publisher.<\/p>\n

My book talk<\/strong>: As the curse hounding Jo’s witch family nears, she must sacrifice her normal teen life to control the magic which could save them.<\/p>\n

The dark curse killed Josephine’s mother, so it’s just Nana and Jo in the hidden ivy-covered house over a magic well, where Jo’s high school friends cannot visit – until the father she never knew arrives in their small Iowa town, bespelled by the curse-holder to reveal them.<\/p>\n

Being in control or being consumed are the only choices where magic is involved. The curse-holder seeking the Hemlocks’ land-hold has relinquished control and will obliterate Jo’s friends, father, town, and new boyfriend in a heartbeat to get their magic source.<\/p>\n

Something in the family archives may beat back the curse, if only Jo can find it in time, if only it exists… (One of 6,000 books recommended on www.abookandahug.com<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A long-lost father, a friend to the bitter end, a malevolent chase… to the death. Even though Nana stops inflicting icky spells on her possible boyfriend, Josephine has much to worry about as a centuries-old curse stabs at the shields protecting her witch family’s magic roots, and her best friend must make a terrifying choice. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,30,41],"tags":[90,22,7,4,11,20,5,70,37,16,18,40,44,43,39,38,49,15,9,21,35,3,6,8,28],"class_list":["post-3327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","category-legends","category-paranormal","tag-abandonment","tag-behavior","tag-beliefs","tag-belonging","tag-communication","tag-conflict","tag-coping","tag-crime","tag-death","tag-determination","tag-family","tag-fathers","tag-friendship","tag-growing-up","tag-love","tag-magic","tag-memories","tag-relationships","tag-school","tag-self-image","tag-surprises","tag-teens","tag-travel","tag-us-author","tag-villains"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3327"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3788,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3327\/revisions\/3788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}