And Claire, of course, has the gift of not just cooking but also understanding how specific plants, herbs, spices, and flowers affect both food and individuals. Her skill is such that she is able to not only make her customers see themselves as truly beautiful, others do as well. Sydney’s daughter Bay has a gift of sensing people’s thoughts and emotions and adjusting herself to any situation. Their great-aunt Evanelle is gifted with the ability of second sight, though hers manifests in giving random people random objects that she knows they will someday need, and this gift of hers ends up being pivotal when, inevitably, Sydney’s crazy ex returns bent on revenge. They are descended from a long line of women who have some type of preternatural gift, their own magic, if you will. Sydney and Claire are quite different, both in looks, temperament and general outlook, which you’d expect being different people as well as sisters. Sydney, being the younger, is of course the wild child who ran off with some guy when she was young, traveled, had many adventures and many affairs, and ends up returning home with her young daughter Bay, fleeing Bay’s psychotic father. She stayed in the family home where there is a garden she tends and from which she creates tinctures, oils, and wonderful food and drink made from her herbs, plants, and flowers…….all of which have some sort of healing or otherwise magical properties to them.
Claire, the eldest, is of course the “practical” one. Garden Spells tells the story of two sisters, Claire and Sydney Waverly, both of whom have magical powers in some way. Oh wait, I’m the literary snob! I forgot! Anyway, Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen is totally a rip-off of Alice Hoffman’s wonderful book Practical Magic, so if you’ve read that one or seen the movie with Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman, you get the premise. So go ahead and judge me, all you literary snobs. So yes, this is totally a chick-lit book.
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