The Witches of New York by Ami McKay

Well. I finished it.
I sense an impending trilogy, though we already know that Adelaide is Moth from The Virgin Cure.
It is one of those things that I felt that it could have been done in 200 pages, instead of five. I ended up skipping over quite a few of the newspaper outtakes, or rather skimming them for pertinent information but I found them more distracting than anything.
I felt that there was very little character development for anyone other than Beatrice, and even that wasn't so much development as watching her learn something we already knew she was very interested in.
I'm sure the next book will be about Mr.Palsham and maybe Sophie which may be more interesting but I feel like this one sets you up for what is coming, rather than the current goings-on. It shows the relationships between the women and Brody, without giving much more than cursory backstory. A set up book shouldn't be 500 pages.
I'm not sure that I will read the next one. Maybe if I'd started with the Virgin Cure (or is the birth house a tie in too?) I may have been more interested.

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