The Book of Magic

Another hard one to rate... I like Alice Hoffman's writing, so that's good, but how can Kylie be so damned stupid? Her stupidity made it hard for me to read this book, and that's why it took so long for me to actually finish it.
I mean... if you are a stranger in a town, and a lady at a pub warns you about a guy you met earlier the day, maybe not take sides, but for heaven's sake, don't assume they are talking smack about the guy just because you met the guy first! People usually don't warn strangers about people just to make things difficult. They usually at least think they have good reason to do so. And her being under a spell or something like that? Nah.
And then we have the red dust. I mean... had I been stepping on red dust and that caused me almost die, I'd be very careful about red dust.