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We Played With Fire by Catherine Barter


Thank you so much to to Kaleidoscopic Tours for gifting me with a copy of this book and allowing me take part in this book tour! (ad-gifted)


Be sure to check out everyone else on the tour below!!

 

Goodreads Synopsis

Maggie has witnessed impossible things. But no one believes her, and now her family has taken her away to spend the winter upstate in a remote, freezing farmhouse.


Bored and angry, Maggie and her younger sister Kate start to play tricks: rapping on the floorboards above their parents’ bedroom, cracking their toes under the table, and telling tales about noises in the night. Then the house starts to make sounds of its own. Neither Maggie nor Kate can explain it, but it seems as though someone – or something – is trying to speak to them . . .


Inspired by the incredible true tale of the Fox Sisters, the girls who made their fortune in nineteenth-century America by speaking to ghosts.

 

Review

As soon as I saw the cover and read the synopsis for this one I knew I had to read it. I'm trying to branch out into more historical fiction and this seemed like the perfect one to read! Not only does this book deal with the supernatural and the real lives of the Fox Sisters, it also looks at the struggles girls had to make their voices heard and the world of racism in the 1800s.


We follow Maggie in this book and her experiences with ghosts. After a horrible experience Maggie begins to feel trapped and ignored. No matter how many time she tells people what she saw, no one seems to believe her. In an attempt for people to understand what she saw she begins to lie with her sister Kate, who she shares a close bond with. At times she comes across very selfish and jealous but that made me love her even more because it was such a good reminder that Maggie wasn't perfect. She would do anything to have people believe her experiences, to make everything she's seen and heard become public truth.


I really enjoyed the writing style of this book and found myself eagerly turning the page, wanting to know more about the sisters and their journey. I cannot wait to do some more reading into the sister's life! I think Barter did an amazing job with this one and I cannot wait to read more of her work in the future!

 

Review: 4/5 stars



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