Sorceress

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Summary: A horrible sequel to a bad begining
Review: After reading the tediously slow-paced Witch Child, I have no idea what possessed me when I decided to read Sorceress. Even more vague than the first book, Rees somehow creates an atmosphere that always had me wishing she was talking about something else. The style greatly varied from witch Child, which was written in the first person about Mary. Sorceress switched from being about Rees (I assume), to being from the perspective of a Native American girl who has "visions", to being from Mary's perspective, as the one being "viewed" so to speak. Throughly confusing, and dissapointing, I would not reccomend this book to anyone. Stop at the first book, while you still can.

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Summary: A journey to the past....
Review: Agnes can't understand why the story of Mary Newbury in the book Witch Child is calling to her. The story sounds familiar to Agnes, a Mohawk Native American. When she contacts the email address, she doesn't known that she is about to learn first hand what happened to Mary at the end of Witch Child. With help from her family, Agnes is about to travel through the story of her heritage, and learn exactly what Mary means to her people.. and more importantly, her family. DO NOT read this book without reading Witch Child first... you will miss so much! The two books create a wonderful story that will move you, you might even want to have tissues for both stories.

Rating:
Summary: A journey to the past....
Review: Agnes can't understand why the story of Mary Newbury in the book Witch Child is calling to her. The story sounds familiar to Agnes, a Mohawk Native American. When she contacts the email address, she doesn't known that she is about to learn first hand what happened to Mary at the end of Witch Child. With help from her family, Agnes is about to travel through the story of her heritage, and learn exactly what Mary means to her people.. and more importantly, her family. DO NOT read this book without reading Witch Child first... you will miss so much! The two books create a wonderful story that will move you, you might even want to have tissues for both stories.

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Summary: Better than "Witch Child"
Review: Agnes Heren, a Mohawk indian, lives in Boston, and attends collage there. After reading "Witch Child" (the prequel)she feels a connection to Mary Newbury. Could Mary be the woman who joined her tribe and who was a skilled healer. First she goes to Alison (the person mentioned in the back of "Witch Child") and tells her why she thinks she might know of what happened to Mary. She then decides to go back to her aunts house on the reservation. She then begins to have visions of the past, and when she does, she isn't Agnes anymore, shes a white woman named Mary...

After reading "Witch Child" I didn't really know what to expect. At first I didn't know if I should read it at first, because unlike most people, I didn't really like "Witch Child". I thought that it was kind of boing. "Sorceress" is better, because it is easier to relate to because of the parts that mention Agnes, and when it flashes back to Mary, those parts are full of action and suspenseful. Also, I didn't really expect for Marys life to play out the way that it did.

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Summary: A vision quest into the past...
Review: Agnes Herne is a Mohawk Indian living in Boston attending college when she begins to start getting visions from this girl named Mary. All she knows is that the visions are somehow connected to the girl she read about in the book "Witch Child"(Sorceress's prequel)named Mary Newbury. Agnes soon begin to suspect Mary is the woman in the legend of the white woman who joined the people and was a very skilled healer. Agnes decides to return to the Mohawk Indian reservation where she could get advice from her aunt, also a healer. Soon she goes on a powerful vision quest that will conclude Mary's story, the story of a girl who beat all odds and used her special powers to become a healer.

This was a fitting ending to Witch Child. Mary's ending wasn't exactly how I expected it to be but it was nice to find out about all the other people at Beluh and how the quilt where the original diary was found got to the museum. A definite must read for Witch Child fans!

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Summary: Tht Thrilling sequel to Witch Child
Review: Agnes, a Canadian Indian, is spending her time in college in Boston when she runs across a published diary of a girl that was an accused Salem witch. The Book is called Witch Child. Agnes can't get over the similarities from the book to one of her ancestors, a white woman that lived with the Indians. Combine that with the fact that she is beginning to have mysterious visions from the past, and Agnes realizes that something big is about to happen. She contacts the woman named Alison who is mentioned in the back of the book Witch child, a woman who is looking for information about Mary. Alison is eager to find info on Mary and will help Agnes in any way that she can. This sends Agnes away from school back home, where she is sent on a vision quest to find out what happened to Mary.

Although the books Witch Child, and Sorceress are fictional novels, Celia Rees makes you almost believe that every thing is real. It's thrilling to find out what happened to Mary for pretty much the rest of her life, and Agnes is a very strong and amiable character. Another great thing about this book is the appendixes in the back. It's filled with diary entries and letters written by the characters in Witch Child whom we don't unfortunately don't see anything of them in the book. Another thing that was great to see is the representations of Native Americans in not a negative light, but in a realistic one. If your a fan of great historical fiction, especially one that realistically shows Native Americans, I highly recommend this to you.

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Summary: Not as Good as Witch Child
Review: I couldn't really relate to Agnes, or liked her that much. Same with her kin and Alison. But the parts with Mary hooked me. I would have rather read a story just about Mary, instead of the others. I cried at the end of it, because there was no more Mary to read about. I could care less about the other characters though. It does explain some unanswered questions, and you should read it, but I just didn't like it as much.

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Summary: Good but not as good
Review: I first read "Witch Child" and decided to check the sequel as well. While "Witch Cjild" was a real story told by the main girl, this one deals with her indian decendant who follows Mary's life after running from the village in visions for the author's book. So it's more straightforward and the characters are rather flat this time around. The one upside is seeing what happened after Mary left and the other characters. That's about the only good thing.

Rating:
Summary: Pretty Good
Review: I loved Soceress, it read so quick and easy. In Witch Child i found myself getting bored and waiting for something exciting to happen. In sorceress I was never bored and I couldn't wait to find out what would happen next. This sequel is a great way to finish Mary's story.

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Summary: Better than the first
Review: I loved Soceress, it read so quick and easy. In Witch Child i found myself getting bored and waiting for something exciting to happen. In sorceress I was never bored and I couldn't wait to find out what would happen next. This sequel is a great way to finish Mary's story.