Look, I know that the actual fall vibes have taken their time getting to us here in the Northwest. But rain is finally in the forecast just in time for this moody, slightly spooky read from Adrienne Young. Spells for Forgetting is her first foray into adult literature, and Young takes us to the fictional Saoirse Island, nestled in the Salish Sea, only a ferry ride away from Seattle. With a descriptive power I’ve experienced in her young adult novels (Fable, Namesake, The Last Legacy, and more), the reader is thoroughly immersed in an island culture that caters to tourists exploring the famous apple orchards and eccentric main street shops. But all is not what it seems, and when August Salt returns to the island he fled 14 years ago, to fulfill his mother’s wishes to be buried on Saoirse, something old and dark is stirred up.
