Wicked Girls (A Novel of the Salem Witch Trials by Stephanie Hemphill)

What I Can Tell You: At first, I thought I will never be able to get into this book. It is written in verse and each girl gets her own "diary" so to speak as we hear each of their views.  It took me no time to move quickly through the book and decide that my next Netflix movie will be The Crucible. However, after a while, I wanted to just read a story.

Stephanie Hemphill's writing is very poetic and I believe this book would make for a wonderful classroom assignment and discussion about the history and times but but as a Young Adult book, I think younger girls will lose interest.

The book is powerful and the mountain of lies that pile up as the girls move forward in the trial is gripping and makes me long to attend a witch trial. The whole bewitching thing and the times, are very interesting to me.