Цикл книг «Ведьмы с Восточного побережья» — 4 книги

The exciting prequel to the Witches of East End series from Blue Bloods author, Melissa de la Cruz.

Маленький, ничем не примечательный городок на Лонг-Айленде. И его на первый взгляд тоже ничем не примечательные жительницы – женщины семейства Бошан – Джоанна и ее взрослые дочери, Ингрид и Фрейя. Ингрид работает в библиотеке, Фрейя – в баре, Джоанна тоже не сидит без дела, занимается огородом и постоянно переделывает старый дом на берегу Атлантического океана. Но их настоящая стихия – магия, ведь они вовсе не обычные люди, а бессмертные древнейшие создания, называемые то ведьмами, то валькириями...

Маленький, ничем не примечательный городок на Лонг-Айленде. И его на первый взгляд тоже ничем не примечательные жительницы – женщины семейства Бошан – Джоанна и ее взрослые…

Everything ought to be perfect in the magical Long Island town of North Hampton now that Freya Beauchamp's twin brother, Freddie, is back. But their mother, Joanna, has always favoured son Freddie, and his assertion - that Freya's fianc? Killian Gardiner (Baldur) was the one who set up his downfall-threatens to fracture the delicate family dynamics as the Beauchamps are forced to take sides against each other.
Freddie spends his days either on the couch sleeping, or sleeping around. When their father Norman helps him find a job on a fishing vessel, Freddie's uncontrollable magic causes mayhem aboard the ship and lands him in even more hot water.
Level - headed sister Ingrid attempts to maintain the peace between the warring twins, but she has problems of her own: her human boyfriend, detective Matt Noble, becomes entangled in a complicated investigation, and when the magical creatures at the heart of it come to Ingrid for help, she has to choose between helping her kind and staying loyal to her love.

Everything ought to be perfect in the magical Long Island town of North Hampton now that Freya Beauchamp's twin brother, Freddie, is back. But their mother, Joanna, has always…

In the third installment of de la Cruz's Witches of East End series, the Beauchamp family must rescue one of their number from being hanged as a witch - again.
When we last left the Beauchamps, who are not only witches, but also Norse deities, the escape of Joanna Beauchamp's long-lost son Freddie (Fryr) from limbo was causing all manner of repercussions, not least the whisking of daughter Freya (goddess of love) back to Salem just in time for the notorious witch trials. When Freya awakens in 1692 Salem, she has no memory of her past (or future). An apparent orphan, she is taken as an indentured servant into the household of Thomas Putnam, the sanctimonious and scheming farmer who was the prime mover of the witch trials. Freya soon discovers she has magical powers, very helpful in getting the endless round of Puritan women's work done. Freya's eternal beloved, Killian (the god Balder), appears in the guise of an eligible bachelor, whose good looks have also attracted Freya's fellow servant and fickle friend, Mercy. Crazed by jealousy, Mercy reveals that she witnessed Freya causing cows to milk themselves and potatoes to self-harvest. Then Mercy joins the attention-seeking teenage girls whose feigned mass hysteria dooms so many accused Salem witches. Meanwhile, in the present, Freya's family works feverishly to find a way to interrupt the witch hunt. Her parents, Joanna (Earth goddess Skadi) and Nord, aka Norman, were warned by an Oracle that although Freya, along with her sister Ingrid (hearth goddess Erda), was reincarnated after being hanged at Salem, Freya will not return to Midgard (Earth) if executed a second time. Though an introductory summary and a family tree help to keep these complex relationships, worlds and dual identities straight, too many subplots and characters, not to mention the increasingly impenetrable Norse arcana, draw focus away from the more coherent and compelling Salem plotline.
Some readers may struggle to pay attention.

In the third installment of de la Cruz's Witches of East End series, the Beauchamp family must rescue one of their number from being hanged as a witch - again.
When we last…