Each heads down a life-altering course, filled with secrets and truths, devastation and joy, and magic and love. But the Owens siblings are desperate to uncover who they really are. Susanna needed to set some rules of magic: no walking in the moonlight, no red shoes, no wearing black, no cats, no crows, no candles and certainly, absolutely, no books about magic.
From the beginning their mother Susanna knew they were unique: Franny with her skin as pale as milk and blood red hair, who could commune with birds Jet as shy as she is beautiful, who knows what others are thinking, and Vincent so charismatic that he was built for trouble. In this sparkling prequel we meet sisters Frances and Jet and Vincent, their brother. The Rules of Magic shows that sometimes the work you do comes back to you threefold - and sometimes you go back to the work you've done, and unfold three times more color from it.Practical Magic, to date Alice Hoffman's biggest ever selling novel, became a major Hollywood film starring Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman who played sisters Sally and Gillian Owens. Hoffman's prose is as tender, dreamy and sweet as ever, laced with the sting of vinegar and broken glass. But overall, the tug of the familiar and the enchantment of the new are the rule to which the above were exceptions. Trying to puzzle a consistency out of the magic use was a bit like trying to bottle up the river with a sieve, so for the most part I shrugged it off and just lay back into the current. I was sometimes confused by how often do no harm came up as an exhortation or a plot point, when by any conceivable metric the Owens siblings do harm people - and themselves - with magic all the time. I wanted to hold these characters' hands. I kept reading, not because I wanted to reach the end, but because I wanted to dwell in the honey-light of Hoffman's words.
reading it was like being caught in a current, floating along with a river's twists and turns, glimpsing familiarity and difference in varied measure before tumbling into something like the sea.
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