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Summary: the show is Charmed has the author seen it?
Review: ok i've only read like a lil of it and almost done and i was like 'man the author should get the real facts!' and so i read the lil part in the back of the book that said about the author and it said she never misses an episode of charmed and i was like well then that's one lie.
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Summary: what is up with this book?
Review: Okay what is up with this book? It was the worst of the charmed books that I have read.
First off how come Phoebe can throw energy balls and Paige trying to when she's in cat form. The last time I checked Phoebe could only levetate and she had premonisions, and Paige could orb and have stuff orb to her.
Seconded of all whats up with Paige still thinking that she is in the shadow of Prue? In the show she got over it along time of go.
Third the book would be okay if there wasn't so many holes in the story. Like why can Tyler tap into Paiges power?
Need less to say is is probably one of the worst Charmed books that i have read.
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Summary: What is up with this book?
Review: Okay, I have read all of the Charmed books and this is by far the worst one yet. On the very first page i noticed an error. The author said that Phoebe's fiance was named Cole Porter not Cole Turner and all the Charmed viewers should know that cole's name is not Cole Porter! Then later on in the book the author talks about phoebe throwing energy balls...but that, like most of us know, is an upper level demonic power. I just wanted to point this out to some people and this is a nice place to do it. I thought this was a good book despite these errors. But still the writer should look into what she is writing next time! Thank you.
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Summary: Exciting Addition to the Charmed Series
Review: Paige Matthews, is finally starting to adjust to the information of her being one of the Charmed Ones, and also to get used to her new half-sisters, Phoebe and Piper. She feels that for the both of her sisters to accept her, after Prue's death, she needs to prove herself to them. So Paige decides to try shape-shifting, which only brings along trouble. Soon she's a cat, and she can't turn herself back into her human form. Then Phoebe brings her to the animal shelter, where she is adopted by Tyler, a man fascinated with Ancient Egypt, who names her Bastet, and someone catapults the both of them into Ancient Egypt. Now Piper and Phoebe are searching for Paige, to turn her back into human form, but end up turning an evil Ancient Egyptian woman back into human form, and setting her loose to destroy the world. The Power of Three must defeat her before it is too late.This is only the second CHARMED book in which I have read, and I am not one bit disappointed. Being very fascinated in shape-shifting, and Ancient Egypt, and being a cat lover, I felt that this book was fantastic. Jablonski did a great job with researching history, and making the characters and settings so life-like. A must-have book for all fans of the CHARMED series, or anyone interested in shape-shifting, Ancient Egypt, or cats. Erika Sorocco
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Summary: Did I miss something???
Review: SINCE WHEN DOES PHOEBE HAVE THE POWER TO THROW "ENERGY BALLS"???
I thought Phoebe's only powers were premonition and levitation. When did she acquire this extra power, and does she still have it?
And no, this book does NOT take place after Phoebe's marriage to Cole and subsequent acquisition of evil powers--although I'm confused about when the story does take place. In this book, Phoebe is engaged to Cole, but, although he's apparently traded all his black hats for white ones, he still has demonic powers (he, too, throws energy balls). Yet in the last "Charmed" novel, "Dark Vengeance", Cole had lost his powers and was trying to adjust to life without them. And when, on the show, he regained demonic powers (as The Source), didn't he keep that a secret? Yet here both he and Phoebe are filling the air with "energy balls" to blast demons . (Actually, nothing in the book says it takes place AFTER "Dark Vengeance"; it just seemed a reasonable assumption.)
The author has the characters' "voices" down pat, which is of paramount importance. And although there are holes in the plot which are never really explained (just what is Tyler's power? what is the "connection" with Paige that seems to trigger it? why is it on-again, off-again?), Jablonski can paint amusing and frightening scenes, such as her satirical yet sympathetic descriptions of the blessed-wannabes in the modern-day cult of Thoth, and the cell painted with drawings designed to neutralize magic, which then come unexpectedly to life. And Paige's instincts and behavior after being turned into a cat are amusing and recognizable to anyone who's ever been owned by a cat.
However, there are MAJOR problems with the story. For one thing, Paige may be impulsive, but she's not an idiot, and I can't believe that she'd cast a spell to turn herself into an animal without first bothering to read the entire spell and make sure she knew how to turn herself back. She's also not the kind of romance-novel heroine who sits around waiting for someone to rescue her, and I can't believe that she never even TRIED to orb herself out of the animal shelter when her sisters unwittingly took her there (and come to think of it, orbing would have been a good way to demonstrate to them that she was actually their sister, albeit in the form of a cat, instead of continuing to meow protests that they obviously couldn't understand).
Paige later learns that she CAN orb, even as a cat, though she finds out by accident, not by being clever or resourceful. She also learns that having once performed the transformation spell, she can turn herself into any animal, just by imagining it (until it "wears off", a time limit which is never explained).
But this kind of thing is a big NO-NO for books about series characters! If shape-shifting is so easily accomplished (with just a few ingredients that are found in any well-stocked kitchen, so that Martha Stewart could do it), then why don't The Charmed Ones add it to their repertoire in future, and always fight demons in the form of lions, hawks, etc.? Ah, but that would make demon-fighting too easy, and therefore uninteresting. The sisters may be the most powerful witches in the world, but they can't be ALL-powerful, or there would be no challenges (except in their love lives, which would reduce Charmed to a soap opera--not a bad genre; I just happen to like some magic mixed with my suds). So shape-shifting seems like one power too many for the writers to handle and still develop interesting plots, and yet, once our witches have learned how to do it, why wouldn't they keep doing it regularly? This is the sort of plot device that, when once unwisely introduced, tends to be tacitly "forgotten"--by everyone except the viewer/reader, who is left wondering, the next time The Charmed Ones face a demon, "Why don't they keep the spell mixture handy, to just transform into bigger, badder demons?" And the answer, for "Charmed", is that we would then have five minutes--or pages, as the case may be--of battle and spend the rest of the episode/book discussing Phoebe's divorce (and I care, I really do, but I still need my magical fix; this is "Charmed", not "The Wild and the Wiccan", or "All My Coven". So shame on you, Carla Jablonski, for having introduced a spell that is both so useful/easy and so inconvenient/impossible!
The impression I get is that Jablonski is a talented writer, who could not only have portrayed the Halliwells (plus Leo & Cole) believably, but could have also written a creative book. Instead she chose a rather worn plot device and simply didn't bother with little things like consistency with past--and future--events (it is a series, after all). She also seems to have the misconception that, because this is supernatural-fantasy, it just heightens the "mysterious atmosphere" when magical happenings go unexplained. On the contrary, the greats of horror/fantasy writing knew that magic has to have its own rules, like the laws of science (sure, you can invent the parameters for your own fiction--for instance, does a vampire have a reflection or not? you're the author, you decide--but not if you're writing in a series featuring characters in a universe developed by others). And both the magic and the characters must be consistent. Finally, though mysterious happenings need not be explained, the reader should be left with enough data to form a likely opinion, not going "huh?"
A plea to authors of future "Charmed" novels (blessings on their race; may they be fruitful and multiply, and keep those "Charmed" stories coming!): The show doesn't assume that either the characters or the viewers are morons, and the authors of novels shouldn't either. Fortunately, not all of them do.
This one does.
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Summary: The worst of all novels
Review: The storyline was okay..but man...all the facts of the Charmed Ones have been twisted almost completely!!! The Charmed Ones don't shoot energy balls from their palms..especially Piper and Paige.Paige can only calls others energy balls and reflected back not shoot her own one.And what's wrong with Cole's name..Porter instead or Turner?Hmmm..weird..I suggest that the author and the editor watch Charmed thoroughly next time before start writing and publishing another twisted Charmed novel coz' it's frustrating to read such a novel for a Charmed fan like me.
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Summary: what!!!!
Review: this book has to many mistake to count pheobe and paige throwing energy balls cole still having powers? if your a big fan of the show this book will just annoy you with the amounts of faults in it. even if your not a fan and you just wanted to try it out there are much better charmed books out there
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