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Synopsis:
After Maeve finds a pack of tarot cards while cleaning out a closet during her in-school suspension, she quickly becomes the most sought-after diviner at St. Bernadette’s Catholic school. But when Maeve’s ex–best friend, Lily, draws an unsettling card called The Housekeeper that Maeve has never seen before, the session devolves into a heated argument that ends with Maeve wishing aloud that Lily would disappear. When Lily isn’t at school the next Monday, Maeve learns her ex-friend has vanished without a trace.
Shunned by her classmates and struggling to preserve a fledgling romance with Lily’s gender-fluid sibling, Roe, Maeve must dig deep into her connection with the cards to search for clues the police cannot find—even if they lead to the terrifying Housekeeper herself. Set in an Irish town where the church’s tight hold has loosened and new freedoms are trying to take root, this sharply contemporary story is witty, gripping, and tinged with mysticism
Review:
All Our Hidden Gifts is one book that you can easily read and enjoy in one sitting. You get some ghost and witch stories all wrapped up in tarot cards!
Maeve is the centre of our story after she stumbles across a pack of tarot cards and then starts to deliver reading to classmates at school. But after giving a terrible reading to her friend Lily, she soon disappears and Maeve is desperate to get her back.
While this book was enjoyable and really entertaining read, I have to admit I was after a little darkness? I mean you have ghost and witches involved, surely that encourages some darker antics? Just me? But other than that I really enjoyed this original tale! Not only were the characters creative but centring the book are a pack of tarot cards is not something I have ever read before. And you know I love an original story!
Rating: 4/5
Publisher: Walker Books
ISBN: 9781406393095