Bewitching Season

Persephone Leland is a proper young lady living in soon to be Victorian England. Well she's not quite proper, there's the fact that she and her sister are witches. Taught by their long suffering governess, the two sisters are better versed in magic than manners. This may be why, when Persephone (know affectionately as Persy) is unable to speak to her child friend and tormentor Lochinvar, newly returned from the continent as a dashing young man. This is the real plot. The plot they (who ever they are) are going to try and sell you is that Persy is trying to rescue her kidnapped governess, but for as much page time as that gets, they (them again) might have just skipped it.

Persy and her sister Pen are the run of the mill witches. Not the interesting, mystical kind, but the kind that got bunches of people killed in the Salem Witch Trials. I enjoy the idea of magic, but I guess the word and idea of witches just kinda turns me off. Also Persy is just generally a dork to her sister and parents, something that really bothered me. Some (not me of course, certainly not) might consider the excessive and bad romance and 'regency' of the whole book a bad component of the book...

I guess that Persy trying to rescue her governess is noble...

I think this book is a waste of any girl's afternoon. Or evening, or morning or anytime of the day. It's just plain boring and vapid (oooh, good word). The heroine should have considered emulating her more interesting namesake instead of vacuously strutting around London.