Wicked: Witch and Curse- Nancy Holder and Debbie Viguie
Rating: 1
Happy Note: Now if you are still looking for another wizarding/wiccan book, I highly recommend
- Blue is for Nightmares series by Laurie Faria Stolarz
- any of the books by Zoe Marriot
- Immortals series by Alyson Noel
P.S. Happy Note will come after any book I give a 2 or lower. It is to just reccomend any books that might be more interesting in that genre.
Product Description:
Holly Cathers's world shatters when her parents are killed in a terrible accident. Wrenched from her home in San Francisco, she is sent to Seattle to live with her relatives, Aunt Marie-Claire and her twin cousins, Amanda and Nicole.
In her new home, Holly's sorrow and grief soon give way to bewilderment at the strange incidents goings on around her. Such as how any wish she whispers to her cat seems to come true. Or the way a friend is injured after a freak attack from a vicious falcon. And there's the undeniable, magnetic attraction to a boy Holly barely knows.
Holly, Amanda, and Nicole are about to be launched into a dark legacy of witches, secrets, and alliances, where ancient magics yield dangerous results. The girls will assume their roles in an intergenerational feud beyond their wildest imaginations...and in doing so, will attempt to fulfill their shared destiny.
Review:
The beginning was decent, I little confusing but with these kinds of books who isn't? It was in the beginning of the middle that the plot got interesting and so I continued... I reached the actual middle, and it was all downhill from there. It just became so vague and boring, I quit.
Remember, Holly is a newfound witch with absolute no advisor besides a women who practices voodoo and only enters the book toward the end! And somehow, Holly was able to fight a middle-aged wizard who has known his entire life of his powers. Also, the antagonist practices some dark magic by having to sacrifice a half dozen lady hawks. And you get six live hawks delivered to your house without anybody noticing how?
The only thing I think this book succesfully achieved was represent just how dark the witching business really is. Said hawks as a perfect example.
I thought it was a waste of my time and a terrible representation of the witching world. I feel for the poor soul who's first book about magic was this.
~Sunnie