Melissa Albert knows how to tell a story—her compelling style made me feel like a ghost peering over the shoulders of the characters as I read this spellbinding novel.  Our Crooked Hearts is a modern fairytale with complicated relationships, tender first love, stolen memories, and witchcraft.  Told from the perspective of seventeen-year-old Ivy, and from that of her teenaged mother decades earlier, this is a book about power and betrayal, with secrets that threaten to break bonds forever.  Led by vibrant female characters and sprinkled with magic, this book asks the question, What would it take to make things right again?