ALL OUR HIDDEN GIFTS BY CAROLINE O’DONOGHUE
Paperback published by Walker Books 27th MAY 2021
ISBN : 9781406393095
400 pages
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The Cards hold the truth. Be careful what you ask !
Maeve Chambers doesn’t have any special gifts. That is until she finds a dusty old pack of tarot cards, giving uncannily accurate readings to everyone around her.
But when she reads for her ex-best friend Lily, a strange card appears in the deck and everything goes wrong. Lily doesn’t come to school the next day, or the next, and Maeve knows she’s been taken somewhere the police will never find her. Only the cards and something older, something even more powerful can bring her back.
MY REVIEW
I love tarot card reading stories as I bought a lot of tarot cards for my daughter, which we are both so in to . I have used a lot of them that appear in the story here on my website along with the book.
This novel maybe for 14+ year olds but I loved it, and I can safely say it’s certainly suitable for the older generation to read.
Maeve Chambers is at St Bernadette catholic girls school, costing two thousand euro a term. Maeve, gets detention after she threw a shoe at a teacher and is led to the Chokey, a long deep cupboard. She is ordered to clean out the cupboard.
While Maeve is in the cupboard listening to a Walkman she stumbles upon some tarot cards. Once she takes them home Maeve learns as much as she can in how to deal with the tarot cards and what each one means.
As soon as word got around the school that Maeve, did tarot card reading all the pupils wanted Maeve to help them predict their future.
Lily O’Callaghan and Maeve once we’re best friends but had grown apart. You should always be careful for what you wish for. As when Maeve does a reading for Lily it goes horribly wrong, Maeve tells Lily ‘I wish you would disappear’.
Everyone in the whole school becomes concerned when Lily doesn’t attend school. And to make it worse Maeve knows one of her tarot cards are missing. I was wandering could there be a connection? And will they find Lily O’Callaghan?
MY THANKS TO
I would like to thank Walker Books for sending me this spellbinding book to read and review.
https://www.walker.co.uk/All-Our-Hidden-Gifts-9781406393095.aspx
ABOUT AUTHOR CAROLINE O’DONOGHUE
Caroline O’Donoghue
Caroline O’Donoghue is a journalist and author. She has published two adult novels, Promising Young Women and Scenes of a Graphic Nature, and is currently working on a collection of personal essays exploring her experiences of feminism and witchcraft. She has a regular column in The Irish Examiner, and has written for The Irish Independent, Glamour, Buzzfeed and Vice, among others. Caroline also hosts Sentimental Garbage, a podcast in which she reviews commercial women’s fiction titles with other authors. All Our Hidden Gifts is her first novel for young adults Visit Caroline on
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