W.I.T.C.H. Chapter Book: The Disappearance - Book #2 (W.I.T.C.H.)

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Summary: Finally a book series everyone will love!
Review: I have reviewed the first book and plan to review all of them. Book 2 picks up at about where book 1 leaves off. I found this book to be funnier and more enjoyable then even the first one. I love the idea of putting in comic book beginnings and ends. The books are marketed towards girl but boys have also fallen for Will, Irma, Taranee, Cornelia and Haylin. Some people say these books are "not good or bad", and they're right. THEY'RE AWESOME!!!!!! The books pull you in and put you on a magical ride filled with adventure, mystery, magic and also everyday life. I hope you buy this book for someone you love. I have read the first 6 of 9 that are available and this one holds a special place. It's very funny and I love the series and you will too. Some reviewers need to open thier eyes and enjoy them for what they are, A pre-teen to teen book.

Happy Reading

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Summary: Finally a book series everyone will love!
Review: I think I'm going to have to give up on this series, since there are too many things I'd like to read for me to be wasting my time, even just an hour or two's worth, on something that's only so-so. The format, with a few pages of comics at the beginning and the end of the book, while the rest is straight written word, is interesting, although I can't help but think that the whole thing would be a lot easier to swallow if it were just all in comic form. I actually really like the comic parts of it. They seem less clunky than the actual book parts.

This book continues (very slowly) the story of Will, Irma, Taranee, Cornelia, and Hay Lin, five girls who've recently discovered that they have magical abilities. They're still dealing with their new powers, and they're trying to figure out what happened to their friend Elyon. Some of the time jumps in this book were fairly confusing, since it sometimes took a while for it to be clear that a few weeks have passed since the previous passage. Once again, I found the transformation sequences to be annoying - basically when the girls' transformations into their magical selves (seen on the back cover of the book) is described, their bodies become curvier, their lips poutier. Suddenly, they are supermodels. While I'm skeptical that things like playing with Barbie dolls can damage girls' self images, these passages still grate, probably because they seem to emphasize that these girls will only be "beautiful" if they're magical. In the comic parts of the book, there isn't nearly as much emphasis on this aspect - the girls look slightly different, but the change basically comes down to different hair and a bit of light lipstick. At any rate, the book is so-so. Some girls may enjoy it, but there are better books out there. I've always thought Dragonsinger and Dragonsong by Anne McCaffrey were very good, although both books would certainly take longer to read than the W.I.T.C.H. books.

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Summary: once again, neither bad nor good
Review: I think I'm going to have to give up on this series, since there are too many things I'd like to read for me to be wasting my time, even just an hour or two's worth, on something that's only so-so. The format, with a few pages of comics at the beginning and the end of the book, while the rest is straight written word, is interesting, although I can't help but think that the whole thing would be a lot easier to swallow if it were just all in comic form. I actually really like the comic parts of it. They seem less clunky than the actual book parts.

This book continues (very slowly) the story of Will, Irma, Taranee, Cornelia, and Hay Lin, five girls who've recently discovered that they have magical abilities. They're still dealing with their new powers, and they're trying to figure out what happened to their friend Elyon. Some of the time jumps in this book were fairly confusing, since it sometimes took a while for it to be clear that a few weeks have passed since the previous passage. Once again, I found the transformation sequences to be annoying - basically when the girls' transformations into their magical selves (seen on the back cover of the book) is described, their bodies become curvier, their lips poutier. Suddenly, they are supermodels. While I'm skeptical that things like playing with Barbie dolls can damage girls' self images, these passages still grate, probably because they seem to emphasize that these girls will only be "beautiful" if they're magical. In the comic parts of the book, there isn't nearly as much emphasis on this aspect - the girls look slightly different, but the change basically comes down to different hair and a bit of light lipstick. At any rate, the book is so-so. Some girls may enjoy it, but there are better books out there. I've always thought Dragonsinger and Dragonsong by Anne McCaffrey were very good, although both books would certainly take longer to read than the W.I.T.C.H. books.

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Summary: W.I.T.C.H The Dissappearance
Review: This book series is about a group of girls who discover they are linked by magical powers. Although their mission isn't clear, they know they have to protect the Earth somehow.
This book is more of a emotional book than the first. It deals with death, responsibility, the loss of a friend, and abuse of powers. It also has some funny parts to it like talking appliances, and frog-transformations.
Elyon has disappeared and Hay-Lins grandmother gets sick. Irma uses her powers so she can look noticable at a party and gets the wrong kind of attention!
I didn't like how the girls just laughed at Irma when she confessed, that was serious matter, not something to laugh about. The girls also discover that the Elyon that they knew has disappeared and become evil.
At the end of the book, their is a fight with evil, and the book gets more interesting towards the end. For once, all the girls transform and the battle scene is a lot better than the first.
Once again though, there are comics in the front and back, but the ones in the back, continue the story unlike the actual novel-written text, and (once again) leave you a cliff-hanger. I would recommend this book to people who enjoyed the first, or are looking for a cheap, lite book series to get into. I still give this 4 stars though, because it's interesting, and deserves more than 3 stars (average).