And thus finds she has an affinity for reading them. While serving detention, cleaning out a cupboard, she finds a pack of tarot cards. She isn’t clever at school, dumped her long-term BFF to get with the “popular girls”, and manages to make poor jokes that get her detention. And at the heart? Magic and witches and tarot and empowerment.Īll Our Hidden Gifts is book one, and we start off meeting Maeve Chambers who isn’t anyone’s favourite person.
It tackles some hard topics and is full of flawed characters with big arcs. 😌 It reminded me a little of The Graces meets Moïra Fowley-Doyle’s books (all excellent vibes pls do check them out) where we get introduced to a (seemingly) inconsequential girl living in a (seemingly) inconsequential town. I’d seen this highly recommend on bookstagram and the hype always leaves me very curious. Set in an Irish town where the church's tight hold has loosened and new freedoms are trying to take root, this sharply contemporary story is witty, gripping, and tinged with mysticism.I finally started the Hidden Gifts series this year! Shunned by her classmates and struggling to preserve a fledgling romance with Lily's gender-fluid sibling, Roe, Maeve must dig deep into her connection with the cards to search for clues the police cannot find-even if they lead to the terrifying Housekeeper herself.
When Lily isn't at school the next Monday, Maeve learns her ex-friend has vanished without a trace. But when Maeve's ex–best friend, Lily, draws an unsettling card called The Housekeeper that Maeve has never seen before, the session devolves into a heated argument that ends with Maeve wishing aloud that Lily would disappear. Maeve's strangely astute tarot readings make her the talk of the school, until a classmate draws a chilling and unfamiliar card-and then disappears.Īfter Maeve finds a pack of tarot cards while cleaning out a closet during her in-school suspension, she quickly becomes the most sought-after diviner at St.
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