Second, the treatment of Marcus is deplorable.
way to completely subvert everything you ever said about how much you love her for who she is regardless of what she can or cannot do. Her grandma goes so far as to say, several times, how thrilled she is to finally be able to share magical moments with Elorie as she always wanted to. Throughout this book, over and over again, characters rejoice in Elorie's discovery of her own powers-talking about how she no longer need be so isolated as she had been. Ensuring the powerless witch children feel loved is vital to the continuing health of the entire witch community (in my opinion). This is important because without it, you risk grave psychological damage for those children born without witch powers. Neither of these are spoilers as they start early and continue throughout.įirst, we hear over and over (in the first book and reiterated in this one) how every witch-born child is important and that those without power are as loved/cherished as those with. So why two stars? This book undermines its own message in two very large ways that really ruined my ability to enjoy it. You'd think it wouldn't have a “story” as a result, but Geary does a good job drawing us into the inner lives of her characters and that provides all the conflict and plot you'd normally look for in a book. I think I might come to appreciate this, though it's not something I generally seek out in books I read.
It was very like the first in terms of character and story-a focus on the characters and witch community without much in the way of external antagonist. I was a bit disappointed with this second novel by Debora Geary. Then a new type of witch power is found and it turns out she has the most of that but it is not traditional witch powers so they work together to identify the power, use the power and integrate it into the long witch heritage.
This was the second book in the series and in this one you meet a long time member of the witch community who has no powers- or so everyone thinks. There is not enough happy stories with good people, doing good things in the world so it is almost a new level of escapism to read about only good, happy, healthy loving people. Although the stories are pretty light weight and too "all good things happen", ie no one ever dies, cusses or drinks for some reason, i still just loved it. Normally i read more zombie books, apocalypse, death and destruction books but i like the occasional fantasy and the witch aspect caught my attention after so many vampires and zombies so i gave it a try and just feel in love! Great character development and family dynamic.
It is super light reading and very Disney-esque in its family oriented message of kindness, forgiveness, patience and love.
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