"Double, double toil and trouble;/Fire burn and cauldron bubble"
Maybe you've heard this before. It's from the play Macbeth by Shakespeare and is spoken by three witches. The book Enter Three Witches is not Shakespeare, but it is Caroline B. Cooney's highly entertaining retelling of the story of Macbeth. Cooney takes some liberties with Shakespeare's work including adding new characters and making a few minor characters more important.
Enter Three Witches is told from the viewpoint of Lady Mary, the 14 year old ward of Lord and Lady Macbeth. Mary is being groomed to wed someone of importance and to be the head of her own castle. Mary's life drastically changes when her father is hanged as a traitor to King Duncan. Then King Duncan is murdered, his sons and heirs to the throne run away, and Lord Macbeth becomes King through suspicious means. Mary's life becomes perilous and her beloved Lady Macbeth seems to be losing her mind.
While Enter Three Witches is a good introduction to a classic Shakespeare play, it also a great story full of deception, murder, revenge, greed, violence, and yes - witches.
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