You got the most of the answers that you need. I’m not gonna give much spoiler because this will ruin the essence of the book but I honestly say if you read the other two books of the series, this is amazing beginning to give enough information for you to understand the reasons behind most of the events and more juicy facts about family dynamics. She follows the love who left her behind and summons the curse into their family life will haunt them forever. Maria’s journey only starts because of love but when love turns into passionate obsession it may also bring its curse within’. If they’re not cursed, you may voluntarily want to be part of the Owens family.

This is remarkable mother-daughter, betrayal, avenging, love story. Instead of feeling sympathy, you start to adore their achievements, women power and you feel connected with their stories, past and present. It was slow beginning but when you stay patient and read more, you realize the characters of the book start growing on you and you need to read more about them. Gifted girl learns the most important lesson from Helen: “she has to love someone who loves her back” Helen becomes mentor, mother, teacher of the girl and her lessons starts with “Unnamed Arts”. Helen finds abandoned baby in the snowy field in rural England. We’re moving to the 1600s to the beginning of the story to meet with Helen: mother of Maria to learn more about Owens bloodline. You got exhausted after those emotional gut punches.

It awakes entire feelings inside of you: hatred, passion, love, regret, horror, shame, guilt, apathy, disgust, sadness.

Magic Lessons is a celebration of life and love and a showcase of Alice Hoffman’s masterful storytelling.įor the love of Owens Family and desperately seeking of my true witchy heritance: this prologue is FAN-TAC-TIC! It’s darker, more intense, more terrifying, grueling, petrifying and extremely emotional. And it’s here that she learns the rules of magic and the lesson that she will carry with her for the rest of her life. Here she invokes the curse that will haunt her family. When Maria is abandoned by the man who has declared his love for her, she follows him to Salem, Massachusetts. It is here that she learns her first important lesson: Always love someone who will love you back.

Under the care of Hannah Owens, Maria learns about the “Nameless Arts.” Hannah recognizes that Maria has a gift and she teaches the girl all she knows. Where does the story of the Owens bloodline begin? With Maria Owens, in the 1600s, when she’s abandoned in a snowy field in rural England as a baby. In an unforgettable novel that traces a centuries-old curse to its source, beloved author Alice Hoffman unveils the story of Maria Owens, accused of witchcraft in Salem, and matriarch of a line of the amazing Owens women and men featured in Practical Magic and The Rules of Magic.

Magic Lessons by Alice Hoffman