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Summary: Not A Good Book
Review: I was at Borders and I saw this book. My friend told me not to get this, but I did anyway. I wished I listened to my friend because I wasted my money on this dumb book that I didnt even like. For me, I thought that this book was poorly written. It had a slow beginning, and the main character, Kate, annoyed me. I dont know why this book got good reviews, because it was horrible. If there is still anyone out there who still wants to read this book, RENT IT FROM THE LIBRARY, its free that way.
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Summary: The Beggining to a GREAT series about WIcca
Review: I picked up this book at a store looking for something to read, not knowing whether it was decent or not, i had read books about WIcca, but my mom had seen them and punished me (much like Kate's parents later do, only, unfortunatly, my mom is much less open minded.) But i read it and thought its ok, but i didnt like as much as some of the other books, but it was a very good beggining to a great series. THis series is very realistic about WIcca, unlike some fiction out there..it is a really great series though, and its my way of studying a bit about WIcca without my mother knowing..
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Summary: the series gets better as it goes
Review: I read this book out of curiosity and was thinking it was gonna be a dumb teenybopper, wannabe wiccan book, but I was pleasantly surprised when I read it. This is by far not the best in the series, but trust me the books get better as they go on and the characters more developed. Great book for anybody who has any interest in wicca or for just a for a fast,fun and interesting read.
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Summary: Very good! Must read!
Review: Kate is your normal high schooler (isn't this how it always seems to start?). Well, she's shallow, insenstive, and way too worried about social class. She's on the basketball team, and in love with a senior football player, Scott (who is in love with Terri). Two of her best friends (Tara, Jessica) are on the team with her, and her other friend (Sherrie) is a cheerleader.Now, Kate starts off having a run of the mill bad day, then in history she gets assigned the Witch Trails for midterm. Not exactly thrilled she just picks up any books and leaves the library. And when she gets home she finds her parents are working late. She studies and finds she picked up a spell book, freaked out she goes and eats dinner, but comes back and finds a love spell. Not thinking it will really work, she does it. (stupid!) Kate not only manages to have Scott fall in love with her, but every other boy in the whole school! Scott dumps Terri after asking her to the dance only a day before, and takes Kate. To say the least, none of the girls in the school are impressed. Things get out of hand, so Kate finds out who checked out the book before her; Annie. Annie is bookish, sciencey, and not the type Kate would picture as a person interested in Wicca, but it couldn't hurt. When they fail to accomplish ending the spell, Kate and Annie are still becoming friends. But not without conflict. They only have one move to do, find out who checked out the book before Annie. They meet Cooper, loner, rock 'n' roll, and most people find scary. They become friends, after a lot happens. I'm tired of typing, read! Later!
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Summary: What is this !
Review: i thought this book was poorly written, it was to corny the settings unplausable and the characters act like their twelve rather than fourteen i was interested in wicca but i couldn't even bring myself to finish this book it was so boring. The plot would be fine if it's content could back it up.
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Summary: it was alright
Review: This book was ok. i would know how to write a better review for it if i knew why it was written: to try to inform teenagers about wicca, or more as an entertainer, or both. as an entertainer, it was ok. i think most people my age who aren't alienated by the Craft would like it. it has a lot about a girl who is having problems with her friends in high school, and with guys, something most of us can relate to. if this book was written to infrom people about the craft, it was ok. some of the stuff was true, but i only remember the God being mentioned once: the Goddess was mentioned several times, and both are important to Wiccans who aren't of the Goddess tradition. also, the owners of the book store kate and her friends went to seemed a little too flaky to be taken very seriously as wiccans, and the more i think the craft was explained, the more confusing it became. the explanations in this book left things only half answered, and it left out a lot of other stuff about the Craft.
also, this book made it sound like you can't be a witch and lead a normal life, as well, with normal friends and guys. i'm 16, almost everyone i know knows that i am a witch, and my life is perfectly normal. i even have a boyfriend who practices the Craft.
but the book as an entertainer is ok; i wouldn't suggest reading it to find out about what the Craft and the people who practice it are really like; there are other books around for that.
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Summary: Wicca for beginners!
Review: I really enjoyed this book because it gives you and understanding of Wicca and Witchcraft that doesn't look or sound fake like the movies!I liked that it seemed realistic not fake.And It's a really good book if you're just starting to get intrested like I am in Wicca.I also enjoyed reading book 3 in this series and I really enjoyed that to!You don't have to take my advice but If you don't you're missing out on some GREAT reading!
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Summary: Inferior to its Surroundings
Review: I bought this book when I was browsing for new series' in a local store. It was the worst of the 8 or so that I bought. I have a wide collection of fantasy-esque wiccan books. This is nothing like as good as an LJ Smith book. The main character (Kate) was flat and I found it very difficult to empathize with her petty boring problems. They actually involved her high school popularity and a dance committee. That's not spelled right is it? Oh well.
It's about people who don't know any better dabbling in witchcraft. That irritates me.
I'll probably buy one more because it was tolerable and I'm hard pressed for good books recently. But I won't buy out the series like I did with the Night World and Fearless series'.
Bottom line is you can find much better, unless you've already read everything by LJ Smith, most things by Jenny Carroll, the Daughters of the Moon series, the SWEEP series, the beginning of the Fearless series (it gets dry and repetitive), and a variety of books not in a series.
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Summary: Mixed feelings.
Review: On one hand, this book was well-written. But it wasn't really what I was looking for. I thought it would be a fantasy book, kind of like the TV show Charmed. But it was about Wicca as a religion. I won't be reading the rest of the books in the series, it's just not for me.
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Summary: Realistic Wicca at its finest
Review: I went ahead and picked this book up, not really expecting anything from it, really just buying it because it was summer, I was bored, the book was cheap, and it had something to do with Wicca. But ya know, I'm glad I did. The book is a very easy read, something a 9 or 10 year old could understand, though I'm not sure I would give the series to anyone younger than 10 or 11. I've begun recommending this book to many people who want to know more about Wicca, especially among some of the younger people who ask me about it. It explains Wicca in a way that anyone can understand, and at the same time makes it interesting by showing it to people through the lives of three ordinary teenaged girls. The main character in this book is Kate, who will strike you as very shallow. She seems to have nothing on her mind but guys, popularity and what others think about her. The way she discovers Wicca is by picking up a book of spells from the library. And being a shallow teenaged girl, she can't help but try a love spell, with a little bit of improvising that leads to disaster. She seeks the help of two of her fellow students, Annie and Cooper, and eventually a local Wiccan coven that runs a Wiccan store and a Wicca 101 class. I'll warn you now, Kate might get on your nerves a little bit; I know she got on mine. But she's realistic. Plus, if you stick with the books, she matures quickly, especially in the 8th book in the series.
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