Kismet’s not remotely believable (this infinitesimal, magically isolated village somehow supports both a hospital and a movie theater), and the magical rules are only slightly more credible. Can Willow cope with her mother’s obsessive overprotectiveness of Wisp, get home to Vermont, and learn Kismet’s strange secret? The townsfolk all appear to be white, like Willow and her family, and Franco-American-descended from early Acadians. It’s as if the locals know what’s going to happen before it comes to pass. At least the people of tiny Kismet, Maine (all 173 of them), are helpful and kind-if also a little spooky. Willow’s mother panics about Wisp, whose extremely rare, undiagnosed condition means frequent hospitalizations and constant risk of death, but the snowstorm and the accident have left them without cellphones, car, or escape route. Thank goodness for their rescuers, a friendly couple who bring them to a B&B in an isolated snowbound community. Returning from Canada, Willow, her mother, and her 8-year-old, chronically ill brother, Wisp, nearly die in a car accident in rural Maine. A 12-year-old with a sick brother chooses between supernaturally comforting certainty and painful reality.
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