How to Hang a Witch by Adriana Mather

Warning: This juicy paranormal tale about the descendants of the Salem Witch Trials, including a main character who is a direct descendant of Cotton Mather, was extremely addictive. The story kept calling me back to the book. Samantha Mather is new to Salem, but her lifelong curse has followed her there and seems to have intensified. Samantha is immediately on the radars of--and detested by--a group of teens known as The Descendants. Rumored to be witches, they are descendants of the witches who were hanged as part of the Salem Witch Trials. The author’s writing is particularly strong, which adds to the enticing nature of this book, and there were several times where I swore I was getting goosebumps from the writer’s crafty mastery of the magically creepy. I greatly enjoyed this book as an adult and would have adored it as an adolescent. I recommend this book to readers who like paranormal fiction, ghost stories, witches, and stories about being an outsider trying to fit in.