"I am no more a witch than you are a wizard.
And if you take away my life, God will give you blood to drink."

And so begins the fascinating first half of this book.

I am thoroughly impressed with the writing and information presented throughout the first half. It focuses solely on the witch trials themselves and the people most closely involved.

The second half takes a bit of a turn, moving onto the lasting effects of the trials and the ways in which the lessons learned (or not learned) helped the founders build America. This part I found a bit longwinded, and I wonder if perhaps the publisher insisted on a particular page count and that is why it ended up going off on this track.

The end of the book comes back to modern witchcraft and black magic, witch-hunts, exorcisms, and modern-day Salem, which I think is very fitting.

Regardless, as someone who already knows quite a bit about the trials, I did overall enjoy the book. I would have made it a little shorter (lol) but I enjoyed it.

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