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Summary: Pretty Good
Review: I think Witch Child was much better. I would have liked it better if it had just Mary's story, but I think it was interesting how the two stories fitted together.
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Summary: hated this
Review: i thought this was the worst book i've ever read. usually it takes me a few hours to read a book, this took me a week. i could hardly get through it. it was too descriptive, and too slow moving. i thought the first was alot better.
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Summary: I DON'T KNOW WHICH ONE I LIKE BETTER!
Review: Sorceress is a great book! I got so involved in it that I've cried twice already! It's an amazing book filled with romance, suspence, action, and mystery. I think what makes it more interesting is that there is REAL evidence to the events in both books. You feel more connected with the book because it's nonfiction. Sorceress is a great book and I recommend it to everyone! (PS. I would love to see the remains of Mary's quilt and her journal!)
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Summary: Great Reading
Review: The book pulls you into the world of Mary through the eyes of her kin. I found myself it feel what she was feeling. I think at one point I found myself to be freezing as the girl was.
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Summary: An excellent sequel...
Review: The end of "Witch Child" left me dying for more. I was too pleased to discover "Sorceress," though bewildered by the cover portait. It came to understand, as I read, that the portrait depicts a girl named Agnes, a Native American college student, who finishes reading "Witch Child" and has a vision, sent from, it seems, Mary herself.
After contacting Allison Ellman, the ambitious young woman who has taken it upon herself to discover Mary's history and that of those she tells of in her diary, Agnes sets off to the Mohawk Reservation, seeking her aunt, a medicine woman who she thinks will try to help her solve the mystery of these visions, and of Mary.
It is at this point in the novel, with her aunt at her side, and Allison fervently researching in Canada, that Agnes begins her spiritual journey to uncover Mary's future and her own past, linking Mary, the Pennacook, the Mowhawks and even the French Canadian as both Agnes and Mary's stories evolve simultaneously.
I thought this book was just as superb as the first. I was startled at first by the rapid change in the cast of characters--where did Agnes and Allison come from? I thought. However, when Agnes' visions begin, I understood, and settled in to enjoy the novel.
It definitely did not disappoint me. I was thrilled at the turns Mary's life took, and engrossed in all the details about Native Americans. One of the most fun parts of the book were the encounters with characters like Rebekah Rivers, who had been prominent in the first novel, and faded into Mary's past in the second.
Overall, "Sorceress" was written as beautifully as "Witch Child", and the story was as fascinating, if not more so, being that there were two stories unfolding at once. I loved the end, with all the "notes" on the histories of the Riverses, Jack Gill and other notable characters, and was extremely satisfied with the culmination of Mary's story.
I most definitely reccomend this book to anyone, provided you've read "Witch Child" first, of course.
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Summary: A must-be-read sequel
Review: The story of Mary Newbury has become famous due to the efforts of researcher Alison Ellman, but no one knows what happened to Mary once she was forced to flee the settlement of Beulah. It seemed as though it was a dead end to the research, but now Mary has made contact with a college student with medicine blood in her family. Agnes never wanted to contact Mary - but Mary wants her story told. The gripping conclusion to the story of Mary's ife as an American colonist and the power of the magic that flows through her.The original book in this series fascinated me because it was amazing to find a teenagers book about a person persecuted as a witch - who was actually a witch. This book continued the promise of that earlier novel, it is written as if the events really happened and it is easy to get tied up in the story. The best part has been that even though I was forced to read the books months apart I was able to easily get back into the story - it also completes the gaps in the story of what happened to Mary. Although I do not know a lot about Native American culture (being from New Zealand all I know is what I have read or seen on TV) I am pretty sure that the portrayal of Native American history and spiritual beliefs has been handled as accurately as possible. I really enjoyed this book and recommend it if you enjoyed the first book.
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Summary: A so-so sequel...
Review: This is the follow-up to "Witch Child", exploring what happened to Mary after we left her. I almost think it would have been better if the author had left the story of Mary open-ended then tried to connect it to Agnes, a modern-day Native American girl who has visions of Mary's life. The book jumps around a lot, often leaving whole chunks of time unexplained. It also was a bit annoying switching back and forth between Mary and Agnes. I did find parts of the book focusing on traditional Native American life interesting though.
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Summary: It was ok I guess
Review: This was a huge disapointment after Witch Child. First of all, I did not like the way the story was broken up, I always wished I was reading a different part of the book. The author did not use magic well at all, I liked it much better when it wasn't obvious if the character was a witch or not. I think Witch Child should have been left by itself, it leaves the reader the imagine the ending, and the plot in this book seemed to drag on and on.
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