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This one started off pretty good, but the last few chapters were a let down. This comes under the heading of 'rich people problems'. Now, this is the sort of rich people problems though, I enjoy. A magical town with a history, the girl who was taken away, and brought back in. 

Spoiled rich girls and witchcraft is never a good combination, though it does make for entertaining books. In this case, the mysterious town history is built amongst a type of voodoo lead by three girls who come into their powers at 17. Eveny, our heroine, has been living outside the town most of her life after the death of her mother and is brought back in. 

Eveny, at least, was the most sensible character of the lot. Not swayed by her new uber-rich lifestyle or the queen bees who try to befriend her. She's kind of fascinated, but (good for her) prefer the regular kids on the "poor side" of town. There's a big divide of the rich side and the poor side in this, there's explanations worked in. But the more Eveny gets involved, the more she succumbs to the magic and power of the snooty girls, The Dolls. 

The world building and the uses of voodoo, the town history was fairly interesting. There's a lot about using herbs and plants, calling on their power, but there's also lessons and warnings about balance as well. The Dolls don't give a fuck about the balance part, Eveny to be fair, starts to realise how wrong this is. Trying to persuade the idiotic Dolls about this however, when you have two hundred years of tradition working against you, tends not to work.

There's a sort of romance plot as well, and a plot involving a sect of hunters who are dead set on eradicating practitioners of the type of voodoo the Dolls play with. While it was very superficial and silly in parts (there's a lot of nonsense about who's wearing what, including voodoo for beauty enhancements) ceremonies for allowing to be possessed by certain spirits which come across as one big ass orgy (there are reasons for this, of course) but the end was a bit of a rush and it was all so fast and silly it kind of spoiled it.

While it was daft, it was entertaining.