Black Candle Women, Diane Marie Brown
Black Candle Women, Diane Marie Brown
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Black Candle Women
A Novel

Author: Diane Marie Brown

Narrator: Bahni Turpin

Unabridged: 12 hr 13 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/28/2023

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included

Synopsis

A Read with Jenna Book Club Pick as Seen on the Today Show

“If you like Practical Magic… you will love Black Candle Women.” —Jenna Bush Hager

Named a Best Book of the Month by: Shondaland, MS. Magazine, TODAY.com, Reader’s Digest, Katie Couric Media, AARP Sisters, Goodreads, BookRiot

A warm and wry family drama with a magical twist about four generations of Black women, a family love curse, and the secrets they keep for and from each other over one very complicated year

Generations of Montrose women—Augusta, Victoria, Willow—have always lived together in their quaint California bungalow. They keep to themselves, never venture far from home, and their collection of tinctures and spells is an unspoken bond between them. But when young Nickie Montrose brings home a boy for the first time, their quiet lives are thrown into disarray.

For the family has withheld a crucial secret from Nickie all these years: any person a Montrose woman falls in love with will die. Their surprise guest forces each woman to reckon with her own past choices and mistakes. And as new truths about the curse emerge, they're set on a collision course dating back to 1950s New Orleans’s French Quarter—where a hidden story in a mysterious book may just hold the answers they seek in life and in love…

“Richly imagined and elegantly told, with plenty of satisfying secrets, heartaches, and twists.”
—Sadeqa Johnson, New York Times bestselling author of The House of Eve, a Reese's Book Club Pick

“Propulsive and poignant, Black Candle Women concocts an intoxicating potion of warmth, wisdom, and wonder.” —Ava DuVernay

About Diane Marie Brown

Diane Marie Brown is a professor at Orange Coast College and a public health professional for the Long Beach Health Department. She has a BA and MPH from UCLA and a degree in fiction from USC’s Master of Professional Writing Program. She grew up in Stockton and now lives in Long Beach, California, with her husband, their four daughters, and their dog, Brownie. Black Candle Women is her debut novel.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Monte

This book was just aggressively fine... Just yesterday I was talking about how some books would benefit from being read a part of a collective, and while this was meant to be a buddy read I don't think that there is much to be gained from reading this outside of isolation... Definitley one of the Je......more

Goodreads review by Kezia

The tension in this book was constant as there were secrets that everyone was hiding. The interesting thing is that everyone genuinely felt that they knew best and their actions were out of love. It’s like family drama…. but with a curse that escalates everything! What a ride! Not necessarily thrilli......more

Goodreads review by scthoughts

I have mixed feelings toward the story which is why I settled on three stars. I see the potential of the story as a whole and I could see it being made into a film or tv mini-series with Janelle Monae playing Willow. It shines in the past timeline with it's backdrop set in 1950s New Orleans, history......more

Goodreads review by BookOfCinz

Not going to lie, this one was very underwhelming for me. I generally love an intergenerational read filled with Black Women and magic but this was not it for me. There were multiple POVs and I just could not get into it because none of the characters engaged me or I really cared for to be honest. A......more

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