Emery knows that something is coming. The morning she wakes to find that every single tree on Saoirse has turned color in a single night, August returns for  be the first time in fourteen years and unearths the past that the town has tried desperately to forget.

August knows he is not welcome on Snoirse, not after the night everything chunged. As a fire raged on at the Salt fimily orchard, Lily Morgan was found dend in the dark woods, shaking the bedrock of their tight-knit community and branding August a murderer. When he returns to bury his mother's ashes, he must confront the people who turned their backs on him and face the one wound from his past that has never healed--Emery. But the town has more than one reason to want August gone, and the emergence of hidden promises and deep betrayals spanning generation threaten to reveal the truth behind Lily's mysterious death once and for all.

✨My Opinion✨

This was a great Fall read! Spells for Forgetting is a multi POV. I could not put it down. I even read until the early hours of the morning. I thought that the multi POV worked in a neat way, giving voice and perspectives that leads the suspense further. I found the characters and their shared/individual trauma to be interesting. 

The world building was superb! The way the atmosphere and tension was helped along by the omniscient island itself. The magic leaned toward magical realism, but there wasn’t much intentional magic. 

The twists and turns throughout this whole book had me making quick assumptions and not even being mad when I was SO very wrong. 

I adored the romance and the suspense! It was nicely paired and one didn’t overpower the other in plot, which I greatly appreciated. I am definitely a AY fan!