The Foretelling

Quite honestly, this was the first book I've read of Hoffman's. I've seen Practical Magic and have always thought about buying it, but other books caught my eye. This one was on my amazon wish list and given to me by my best friend. I was expecting a more coming of age book but instead got treated to a wonderful story set in a mythic age. It reminded me more of oral stories written by Native Americans than a traditional tale. Our heroine, comes to grips with herself and her position within an amazonian society that's poised on the edge of a new dawn... where they need to learn how to fight with cunning and words, rather than spears and weapons. Hoffman's diction brought this world into very vivid realism in my mind. This fits into my goal by being fiction. Yay for fiction.