With Hester Fox’s first novel The Witch of Willow Hall, she became one of my favorite authors. From her writing, to the books atmosphere, I knew that she was someone I had to pay attention to. The Widow of Pale Harbor blew my away and captured my attention just as quickly. Fox just has a way of making her writing flow so easily, that it doesn’t feel like I’m reading a book anymore. The best books are the ones that don’t feel like books in my opinion, but feel as if I’m in the story myself and so far Fox has managed to do this yet again.

The Widow of Pale Harbor is mysterious and romantic and dark all at once. We have a small town where everyone knows everyone's business and no one likes our main character Sophronia. They all think there's something wrong with her and that she killed her husband. Some call her a witch, but sure enough she's one of the favorite stories in this town and the townsfolk make sure to tell their newest member, Gabriel all about her. Strange things keep happening all around the town and of course Sophronia is the one blamed, but it's so much darker than that. Through in a Poe copy cat and you can bet, I dived head first into this novel.

I fell in love with Sophronia and Gabriel. This book is told through both their points of view and it was definitely interesting seeing how Sophronia saw herself and the way Gabriel saw her. This book was amazing and I honestly enjoyed every single second of it.