Lily not wanting to be friends with Maeve at the end I found to be a good representation for how doing one good thing, does not make up for all the bad things done and I thought that there was also a great lesson learned by Maeve in that sending away the Housekeeper card would not take away all the problems of the world with it ( eg. The ending was a bit disappointing but I understand that is to make way for a sequel. It was interesting to see the religious divide in Ireland which was something I had never read about before! One thing I loved was the plot about the tarot cards which I found very intriguing as for what all the cards meant. Personally I really enjoyed reading this book (which I wasn’t expecting to) because I found the characters quite relatable and I loved the elements of magic and danger that were woven into it. I especially enjoyed the structure of the book and how information surrounding the main mystery was revealed but by bit, and would definitely recommend it to anyone interested in supernatural mystery and thriller novels. This book was incredibly thrilling to read, and O’Donoghue clearly did a lot of research, not only about tarot card readings and other types of magic, but about the historical setting of the book. Set in a rural Irish town, where the influence of Catholicism is still prevalent, and many people are unaccepting of the LGBTQIA+ community, we see the struggles of not only the main protagonists, but also several other characters as they face backlash from their community for their racial, sexual and gender identities.
But what happens when an old best friend asks for a reading and Maeve draws a much more sinister card than the others in the pack? Will Maeve be able to save her town from the control of supernatural forces that she doesn’t yet understand? Before Maeve found a pack of tarot cards at school, she felt trapped in her routine life day after day, but she soon became a school celebrity, with people asking her for tarot readings of their future.
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