You know what I hate? Sweet tea. Actually, I wouldn't call it tea; I'd say it's more of a syrup. Ninety-eight percent sugar with a little water thrown in so you don't totally shrivel up and die in this torturous heat.
Shortly after her mom's sudden death, sixteen year-old Alex was forced to move from the only home she's known into her grandmother's mansion in Savannah, Georgia.
The most terrible thing about her death was the weeks after. The mornings when, instead of waking up to my mom's horrendous, out-of-tune singing and the smell of cinnamon-spiced coffee, all I heard and felt was silence.
Alex grieves the loss of her mom and she hates the fact that she had to leave her home on a communal organic farm in California.
Life in Savannah is completely different from life on Rain Catcher Farms. She meets her Magnolia Sisters, Hayes and Madison. Alex struggles to make sense of her new life.
Alex's grandmother is the head of the Magnolia League, Savannah's long-standing debutante society. Grandmother wants Alex to be presented at the Christmas Ball.
Alex wonders how her mother, born in Savannah and raised in society that celebrates debutantes, ever made her way to California. Her mom always wore a necklace with a stone, but she wasn't wearing it on the day she was killed. Some of Savannah's important people have noticed Alex's necklace; some were upset that her mother wasn't wearing it the day she died.
Alex meets Sam and Sina Buzzard and learns more about her mother, the Magnolia League, and hoodoo.
"Have you heard of a Blue Root?"
I shake my head.
"It's a hex on someone to bring that person harm. If a Blue root is on you, then you will die; the only question is how. There's a Blue Root on the entire League. That's the bargain they made: They can be queens of Savannah, but only Savannah. Your friends...If they leave Savannah, they die."
The Magnolia League is an exciting read! I enjoyed learning about the history Savannah and hoodoo. I look forward to the next book!
Rating: 10 out of 10 stars
* Language, sex, alcohol, marijuana, black magic
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