***Review*** The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane by Katherine Howe

"Have you not considered the distinct possibility that the accused were simply guilty of witchcraft?"

Connie Goodwin thinks her academic advisor is teasing her; she has mastered the scholarship surrounding the Salem witch trials of 1692 and knows the question he poses is preposterous.  She never suspects that answering it will alter everything she knows about the past, her family, and the professor himself.

Sent by her mother to prepare her long-deceased grandmother's home for sale, Connie finds a decrepit dwelling filled with venerable oddities, including a collection of ancient bottles filled with peculiar liquids and powders. On her first night there, Connie chances on a crumbling bit of paper, bearing the words "Deliverance Dane," that has been carefully hidden inside a key tucked between the pages of a 300-year-old family Bible. Combing the local church registry for traces of this mysterious name, Connie strikes up an acquaintance with Sam, a steeplejack engaged in the church s preservation. Together they piece together Deliverance's tragic story and learn of her precious book of spells and recipes for healing potions. When a series of sinister events threaten Sam's life, Connie's search for the book is transformed from scholarly pursuit to a matter of life and death -- and love
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REVIEW

This was an interesting book.  I loved how history overlapped with what was going on in the future.  This book is about the discovery of a new person accused of being a witch during the Salem Witch Trials and finding her "book" and how her grandaughter, many times removed, discovers it and her powers.  It is about love and lose and discovery and of course it has an evil eliment. 

The problem with this book is it's sooo slow paced atleast until the last few chapters where it all starts to come together.  For that alone I gave it 2 out of 5 starts.  I don't like being bored in a book and this one unfortuanatly was boring.  The history facts were interesting but the current timeline just dragged along.

I do not know if I would read another of this authors books, it would REALLY have to stand out to me.

~Brandy