Witch of the Black Circle
Dawn of the Blood Witch #1
by Maria DeVivo
When it comes to witchcraft, it’s never just a teenage phase…
For as long as she can remember, high school senior Joephie Turner’s mother has told her she is cursed by a witch. As she settles into her new hometown of Northport, Long Island at the height of the 1980s Satanic Panic era, Joephie is accepted into a circle of friends obsessed with the occult. Demonic messages on cassette tapes, shady youth group leaders, and passionate sexual encounters push the teen into a thrilling world that lends a deeper meaning to the proverbial mantra: “sex, drugs, and rock and roll.” Until it all goes wrong.
A decade later, haunted by nightmares of cults and rituals, formidable burgeoning witch Joephie pieces her memories together in search of answers about the small group of suburban teens that meddled with dark forces. As an adult, Joephie will have to decide what, or who, she is willing to sacrifice from her past in order to claw her way back to sanity.
Inspired by true events, Witch of the Black Circle is a deliciously wicked and nostalgic journey through time where the lines of reality and the supernatural blur. Content warning: satanic rituals; sex; graphic violence; language; drug use
REVIEW
5 out of 5
I loved this book – DeVivo took me on a wild ride, and I loved every twist and turn of it. Joephie is a great heroine, caught in the middle of forces she doesn’t totally understand as a teen, then as an adult trying to get a handle on everything. The setting really comes to life around the reader, and it’s so easy to forget a time when cell phones and the internet weren’t a part of everyday life, but this book made it easy to slip back there. The story moves along at a nice pace, and there are plenty of twists to keep you reading and on the edge of your seat. I can’t wait to see what the rest of the series has in store!
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Maria is the Author of the Amazon bestselling and award-winning series The Coal Elf Chronicles, the YA psychological horror series The Altered Experience, and the NA Urban Fantasy series The Aestrangel Trinity. When not writing about dark fantasy and horror, she teaches Language Arts and Journalism to middle school students in Florida. A lover of all things dark and demented, she takes pleasure in warping the comfort factor in her readers’ minds. Just when you think you’ve reached a safe space in her stories, she snaps you back into her twisted reality.
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