I can't say anything truly positive on this book as it was a snore-fest. I was super excited to be able to finally get a chance with this book (3 months on the waiting list at my library) and I was terribly disappointed. There was too much repetition and no real evidence of what was going on. Schiff did not play to any of the theories roaming around and just wrote out the who, what, where, how, and when but there wasn't an answer to why. Of course, there probably never will be but to at least explain the theories would have made the book a bit more interesting. 
 I will say that on the upside was the background of Salem. The history of a people who were at odds all the time with each other and no pastor was ever there for very long. I think when reading about the basic life of Salem got me excited and then I was horribly disappointed from there on out. I think Schiff could have made an interesting argument if she had researched more into that line of history than just to repeat history nearly word for word.