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Hocus Pocus and the All-New Sequel by A.W. Jantha Published by Freeform on 7/10/18
Genres: Fantasy & Magic, Paranormal, Young Adult
Pages: 528
Format: Ebook
Source: Reviewer Purchase
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Shortly after moving from California to Salem, Massachusetts, Max Dennison finds himself in hot water when he accidentally releases a coven of witches, the Sanderson sisters, from the afterlife. Max, his sister, and his new friends (human and otherwise) must find a way to stop the witches from carrying out their evil plan and remaining on earth to torment Salem for all eternity.
Twenty-five years later, Max and Allison's seventeen-year-old daughter, Poppy, finds herself face-to-face with the Sanderson sisters in all their sinister glory. When Halloween celebrations don't quite go as planned, it's a race against time as Poppy and her friends fight to save her family and all of Salem from the witches' latest vile scheme.
Short and Sweet Review
Well Hocus Pocus and the All-New Sequel we get two books in one. The first book is just like the movie and if you haven’t seen the movie I’ll give you a quick background. Max and his younger sister Dani have moved from California to their new home in Salem. And on Halloween Max try to impress his crush Allison by taking her to the Sanderson sisters house, only to end up bringing them back from the dead. Now Max, Allison and Dani have to figure out how to get rid of the sisters with the help of a cat named Binx who was actually a human that was cursed by the sisters in the 1600s. I enjoyed reading this but I honestly think that if you’ve seen the movie the first half of the book can just be skipped because it follows the movie so closely.
25 years later Max and Allison have a daughter named Poppy, which the second book focuses on. Poppy doesn’t believe her family when they tell her about their run in with the Sanderson witches 25 years ago and she likes to keep the story about them on the down low to avoid embarrassment. But this year on Halloween her parents decide to throw a party and they invited most of their coworkers and Poppy’s classmates. In this book Poppy has a best friend Travis and a crush on a another friend Isabella. At the party Poppy, Travis, and Isabella decide to leave and go visit the Sanderson house. After playing with a spirit board and saying a spell much to Poppy’s disbelief she ends up bringing back the Sanderson sisters but at a cost, the spell she cast brought the sisters back but took her family in exchange. Now Poppy, Isabella, and Travis have to find the moonstone to reverse the curse, and they get the help of Binx and his sister Emily, and Elizabeth Sanderson. I liked the elements of this book especially learning about Elizabeth Sanderson who is very different from her sisters. Isabella is also a descendent of the Sanderson sisters and is a key player in finding the moonstone. Isabella and Poppy’s friendship and developing feelings for each other also played out very nicely. The Sanderson sisters are still very wicked and are trying to take over which is why they need the moonstone. Overall this was a good book and I think its better to read around Halloween and maybe watch the movie around the same time to get in the Halloween spirit.
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