Enchantra

“When she’d opened the letter for the first time back home, she had noticed that the ink of some of the letters had bled ever so slightly, making parts of certain words appear thicker than the others. Revealing an all-too-familiar shape amongst the lines. A crow.”

Kaylie Smith introduces the crow as a symbol of destiny early in the text. By attaching the image of the crow directly to the invitation to Enchantra, Smith makes it clear that Genevieve is destined to travel to the Enchantra estate and enter the Hunt.

“From the moment she found the photograph, Genevieve had found herself asking the same questions. She knew that her mother’s locket was connected to her family’s lineage, that it had always been meant to pass on to Ophelia upon their mother’s death. Was the man in the picture a Necromancer, too? Did he have children? Were any of them…like her?”

Genevieve outlines her core desire and motivation for seeking out Enchantra. She wants to find other children of necromancers who did not inherit their families’ powers. Without the necromancy aspect of her familial lineage, Genevieve struggles with The Search for Identity and Self-Acceptance, and she seeks external examples of how to exist in the world.

“Ophelia might be the Necromancer, but Genevieve dealt with Ghosts just the same. Only hers were still alive.”

Genevieve is haunted throughout the narrative not by the dead, like her sister, but by the living. She’s haunted by Farrow Henry and the damage he wrought in her life and the lives of those she brought into their conflict, namely Basile. She’s haunted by these memories that influence her identity, as she sees herself in a negative light because of the pain of her past.