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Summary: This is a totally cool book!!!!!
Review: My friend bought this two days ago and ripped through it and insisted that I read it. WOW!!! I'm am totally hooked!! I think Cate Tiernan is a great author. Even though this is kind of a fantasy book (witches, magick, etc.), I could completely relate to alot of the situations that Morgan (the main character) found herself in - dealing with friends, guys, parents, etc. This book is a mix of fun, drama and some pretty hairy (scary) situations. Overall a great book and I can't wait to read the next one (The Coven)!!!
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Summary: Starts off a great new series.
Review: Morgan Rowlands considers herself a pretty average, not particularly attractive sixteen-year-old girl. Living in a small town in upstate New York with her parents and younger sister, her life is uneventful. Until Cal Blaire, the best-looking guy Morgan and her friend Bree have ever seen, moves to town. Cal's not just any guy, though - he's a Wiccan. He invites many of the students to a circle in which they perform a magic ritual. He then invites those that show an affinity for magick to join his new coven. The circle awakens something within Morgan that she never knew existed before. Soon, Morgan begins to question herself, her family, and everything that she has believed herself to be for her entire life. Witchcraft has helped Morgan to find her true self - but it has also torn her away from everything she has always known and believed in. Is her newfound talent worth the price she will have to pay for it? I reccomend this series to fans of the TV show Charmed.
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Summary: Recommended to Parents who can¿t get their daughters to read
Review: I purchased the Sweep series for my 13 year old daughter in the hopes that maybe she would read. "She hated to read." Well I was amazed, and could not get her to go to sleep, as she would spend the whole night, with a night-light on reading these books. She enjoyed them so much, and could not stop talking first about Cal and then Hunter, that I had to see what all the fuss was about.
Well after two weeks, a book a day, for a girl who hated to read, it sparked my curiosity, so I started reading, and was surprised to find out how enjoyable a Teen book about Teen Witches could be. I am not really into Wicca, but these books are really enjoyable. I am on my fifth book, and my daughter read each twice, and is know on the Circle of Three Series. I have to highly recommend these books to those parents who can not get their daughters to read. These are excellent stories, full of fantasy, horror, and fun.
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Summary: And they kept coming
Review: I picked up this book as i was interested in wicca and magick and saw that this was exactly wat this book was about. I took it home, began reading and WHOOO i could not stop!!! I was all half the night reading, every morning and every night. that only lasted a couple of days, as i soon finished it. i felt very sad about that, but then, i looked on the internet, and WOW!!! THERES MORE!!! i read and read and read them, until i had read them all, infact i just finished #15, Nights Child about 1/2 an hour ago, and now i am very sad. This book is really a great one, and anyone who doesnt think so obviously is dumb. I have now gotten my christian friends into them. Who ever thought they would be interested in reading them?? not me, thats for sure, but now, theyre hooked.
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Summary: Brilliant Read and Highly Addictive Wiccan Lore!
Review: Enter into the world of the Seven Great Clans of Witches, where young Morgan Rowlands finds out in a blink of an eye that (1) She's adopted and (2) She's a "blood witch". Is she a Leapvaughn, Woodbane, Rowanwand, Wyndenkell, Vikroth, Brightendale, or Burnhide?
Last week she was just an ordinary teenager, but ever since sexy Cal Blair showed up at Widows Vale High, nothing has been the same. Invited to her first coven "circle" with Cal, Morgan's introduction to Wicca is "to the manner born". She is able to conjure great power, cast her senses, make dead flowers bloom again and shoot out "witch fire". How is she able to do this?
What Morgan does not know is that while she is discovering herself and her powers, someone is closely watching her progress. For before her lies a bright future, but behind her trails a legacy of black majick and death, that she is only now unraveling. Who were her parents? Why were they murdered? Who created the "dark wave" which wiped out the tiny Irish hamlet of Ballynigel?
Morgan learns that with great power comes great responsibility and danger from those who would do just about anything to take it away from her.
Cunningly written, this first installment by Cate Tiernan is near blindingly perfect, with all the treats you would expect from a great read: plausible history of the Wiccan religion, the intracacies of ritual, and the palpable suspense that unwinds to the tune of the most basic of all conflicts, good versus evil, and a heroine who could effectively wield both. These situations keeps the reader turning and wondering where Morgan will land next. Excellent!
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Summary: Emotions and suspense
Review: Cate Tiernan's SWEEP series of books are really great. You can feel every emotion that the characters feel in the books. If you read the first one, then it will leave you longing for more. YOu have to buy every book, and after the last one (Night's Child) You still want more. These books are verrry addicting.
By the way- NIGHT'S CHILD is the very last book of the series,and I have heard it is very good. It is a super sized book (twice the size of a regular sweep series book) and gives yo a conclusion. I CANT WAIT TO READ IT! (I have to wait a week)
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Summary: the best series I have ever read
Review: Oh my gosh, this whole series is absolutely amazing! It is so well written that I would swear the story was real! It is the best series I have ever read. I had borrowed the books from my friend, who owned them, and I loved them so much that now I plan to buy the whole series just to own and read again! They were that good. :) The characters are so well thought of. Many of them will totally warm your heart. You have to at least buy the first book in the series to read and see if you like it, which you absolutely will!
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Summary: Sweep...This Into the trash
Review: I am Wiccan and after reading the Circle of Three series by Isobel Bird, I was looking for some more Wiccan fiction. I had heard good things about the Sweep series and I am here to let you know that it was all lies.
This author has obviously read a Wicca 101 book and used bits and pieces to produce this grotesque distortion of our religion. There were several things wrong with this book and almost all of them violate the basic principals on which we base our workings.
1. No good Wiccan would invite people to a circle without telling them before they got there what they were going to be doing. Most of us used to belong to some form of Christianity and do not appreciate it when people try to impose their religion on us, so we try not to do it to other people
2. That "grounding" they did when Megan or whatever her name is took in too much energy? The exercise would have been believeable if they were telling her to concentrate and release some of the energy back into the earth. But they weren't, and the best thing to do in order to ground yourself is to eat something.
3. Some groups might be selective about who they let into their group, but it would be based on their attitude towards Wicca and how well they follow the basic principles, not on whether they "did it right" or "felt like witches". We are willing to teach anyone who is willing to learn.
4. The way Bree is acting about Cal ("I love him!" and so on and so forth) makes me think that she might be under a love spell. The fact that she slept with him also concerns me. If she is under a love spell, Cal has committed a very serious breach of Wiccan laws. We DO NOT do spells that will mess with a person's free will. It's the basic rule you first learn when studying Wicca "If it harm none, do what thou will". The only circumstance I could think of where this would be acceptable is if you were doing a spell to bind someone from causing harm.
The reason Cal sleeping with Bree concerns me is because some people will use the fact that Wicca is very open when it comes to sexuality to take advantage of people. As their teacher, it would be a breach of the coven's trust to take advantage of a fellow member like that, especially if Bree is under a love spell.
5. The scene where they're all skinny-dipping in the pool is not cool at all. Being skyclad (Wiccan term for naked) while performing rituals helps some to get closer to the earth. It's not for everyone and even though they weren't working any magick, Cal should have let the main-character-who's-name-I-can't-remember leave if she was uncomfortable in that situation.
6. There are such things as blood witches, but they don't have supernatural powers. They're human, just like you and me. The only difference is that they might have a stronger connection to Wiccan teachings at first, but anyone can build that up over time.
If you aren't really concerned about the religious facts being right, this book is horrible even from a literary standpoint. The whole book comes off as being soap-operaish. So if you're looking for a mature look at the Wiccan religion, check out the Circle of Three series by Isobel Bird and stay far, far away from this series.
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Summary: Wicca
Review: Morgan and Bree have been best friends for life...until Cal and Wicca come into the scene. Morgan dicovers that she has a talent for witchcraft...she may be the most talented of her Wicca coven. Meanwhile, Cal and Morgan are drawn to each other. Morgans life is about to change forever...but is it good or bad? What will change and what will stay the same?
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Summary: Teen Mom Loved this Series!
Review: As a mom of a 14 year old, I like to know what she is reading -- but I've found that I enjoy the books she reads as much as I enjoy my own books -- ESP. this series!
Of all of the romance horror/si-fi books I've read, this is the most riviting. It kept me wanting to go to the next book!
My daughter and I had a great time discussing it and laughing at each other as we learned something new from the plot!
You know a series is good when you wished the author would write more!! And although the last book rapped up the story to a neat little ending, I cannot help but wish there'd been a few more to read.
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