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Summary: A Soul-Searcher
Review: It's so refreshing to read a book in which ALL of the characters make huge mistakes and then have to live with the consequences, instead of the typical tale of people who are only "bad" or "good." This book may push your buttons a little if you're looking for a perfectly accurate description of Wiccans, a completely sympathetic heroine, or a traditional "happy ending." But if you're willing to journey through this oddly poignant book, you may find an new understanding of how our innate human desire to be powerful and significant can affect us in very deep ways.
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Summary: I did not like the ending of this one.
Review: Kip and Shelley Davies were twins. Since they were little they were told never to go across the street. The Victorian inn was there and they were not to disturb the guests or the owners. As teenagers, they both got their first jobs at the inn. Soon they noticed "the regulars" came at certain times. There they practiced their Wicca religion. The Wicca religion's greatest rule is "An' it harm none, do what thou wilt". Now the rule has been broken! ***Delves into the religion known as Wicca. Describes ceremonies and beliefs. It also shows what evil may befall those who cast spells recklessly. All spells come back to the sender times three! This book gives the reader a glimpse into the human heart. In my opinion, the book, itself, was wonderful. However, I thought the ending was anticlimatic.***
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Summary: Please Write a Sequel, Ms. Hawkes!~~~
Review: Ms. Hawkes~~~Please write a sequel to this book! Or at least write another book that is similar...This is the very best wiccan "escape" book that I've ever read. The characters, the place, the images...stay with you a long, long time. I loved it!!! Sandpiper
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Summary: Judith Hawkes delivers a hair raising ride of a book.
Review: Set in a small town in New York, The Heart of a Witch delivers chills with each turn of the page. Twins Kip and Shelly have grow up across the street from the Lockley Arms Inn and they've always believed something strange to be happening there. When they become teenagers, they take jobs working in the hotel and they find their suspicions to be true. The inn is secretly housing a coven of witches, and Kip and Shelly want to join. As young witch apprentices, their lives are upheaved when an evil entity begins kidnapping young boys living nearby and the coven attempts to help. Heartwrenching, emotional, terrifying, and brilliant. This book will grip you from the first few pages until the astonishing climax.
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Summary: Like witches, ghosts and goblins?
Review: The best Judith Hawkes yet. A little dry in the beginning, but wow! when the events started rolling, I couldn't put it down. You know how you find a good book and you think everyone you work with should read it? Well this is definitely one.
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Summary: In spite of my disappointments, I'm glad I read this book.
Review: The book's title is "The Heart of a Witch", and the title is the key to the book: all the supernatural glamour notwithstanding, the author is writing about the human heart..., its strengths and weaknesses, its virtues and corruptions. The author demonstrates this dichotomy through twin protagonists, one who is thoughtful but timid, the other who is headstrong but inconsiderate... I identified with many of the character's childhood experiences: fascination with the forbidden, subliminal awareness of a supernatural dimension, Halloween costumes that fell embarrassingly short of my imagination... This author has a unique way with words. While reading this book at my job, I frequently wanted to interrupt my work to share poignant quotes with someone. Unfortunately, I only enjoyed this book up to the point when Shelley begins college. When Shelley begins college,the author's philosophy of life diverges from my own. Hawkes seems to share the tradition of Shakespeare that all heroes have some "tragic flaw", and that human effort is doomed to suffering. Shelley's jealous desire to possess her brother leads her to destroy her other valuable relationships. My second greatest disappointment is that Judith Hawkes used an "accident" to resolve the plot. This appears to be gratuitous tragedy, and an "easy" plot resolution. But since Hawke's characters are fundamentally strong, idealistic and heroic, an "accident" was necessary for a tragic resolution. My greatest disappointment is the author's choice of a bitter ending. Is this ending meaningful and necessary? What should readers carry with them after reading this novel? A sense of loneliness, hopelessness, and desolation? Or a sense that something better had been possible? I had assumed that this book was Wiccan propaganda... But after reading "The Heart of a Witch", it seems that Wiccans are not much different than "Fundamentalists". Humans are human, after all.
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Summary: I absolutely LOVED this book!
Review: The Heart of a Witch draws the reader into a world without the restrictions and conventional thinking of modern society with beautiful language and amazing atmosphere. It made me want to be one of the twins, to live the story. The ending was a total shock and left me slightly depressed, but it was definitely worth it. After reading this book, I still feel like a part of me is living within it. It just stays with you like that.
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Summary: Best book I've ever read!!!!!!!
Review: the heart of a witch is captivating. the storyline is inthralling and the characters are so incredible. i love kip!
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Summary: Beautiful, I wish I was still reading it!
Review: This book has left me changed. It's beautifully written pages kept turning and turning, and I lost track of time. The book grew as the twins Shelley and Kip did and left me as if I knew the two personally. Twists and turns and unexpected thrills happen on every page! I recommend it to everyone, especially someone between the ages of 15 (my age) and 17. Judith Hawkes should receive an award for this work of art.
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Summary: i really enjoyed this book
Review: this book was so enjoyable, because it was educational regarding The Craft, and had a story line that kept me from putting the book down. i just wanted to know what would happen next. i found the main characters and their relationships very well developed
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