Product Description: Holy Cathers is not the same person she was almost a year and a half ago. After discovering her connection to an ancient legacy of witches, Holly has accepted her destiny as a descendant of the House of Cahors. She is determined to end an intergenerational feud that has plagued her family for centuries. Holly will have to overcome unworldly obstacles as she battles to protect her loved ones including Jer, a member of the rival House of Deveraux and her one true love. A war of magical proportions is being waged, and Holly is at the center of it all. Lives will be lost, and sacrifices will have to be made...
What a "Wicked" Good Read! I have been reading various other world Genres for the past 15 years and I have to admit if it wasn't for work interfering, I would have stayed up all night reading! I thoroughly enjoyed both of these books and would place them right up there with the Harry Potter series but with a more female themed storyline as it is Witches against Warlocks. The captivating plot twists as well as the magics used were extraordinary. The time travel sequencing did a wonderful job of fleshing out both the plot and the major character's motives as well. The cliff hanger ending at the final chapter of the last book was an unexpected turn but I am glad that the next book goes to Debbie Holder's publisher October 1, 2008, so the wait won't be too terribly long!
There will be a book 5! One of my favorite series to day, Wicked, has captivated audiences all over. Many of the readers of the Wicked series have been frustrated in the cliffhanging manner to which "Spellbound" ended. Well, as of March 23, 2008, Nancy Holder announced on her website that book 5 is indeed being written! So feel free to ignore the reviews below and indulge yourself in this world!
Very rough around the edges The Wicked book series highly disappointed me. First, there were errors within the book that I feel are unacceptable and quite appauling that the book was printed with spelling errors, grammatical errors and even incorrect characters in certain times (an example would be on page 336 of Spellbounch where the is a sentence that says "Nicole's familiar, Bast" when in fact Nicole's familiar is Hecate and Holly's familiar is Bast... how can you get the facts wrong in your own story?!). Beyond the errors that irritated me for a professional, published piece of work, the story line was very slow for a young adult book. I had to force myself to finish the book only to find out, as others have pointed out, that the book isn't even finished! This is probably the worst young adult book I have read and do not recommend this book to absolutely anyone.
Great characters, great stories, NO ENDING???? This is a wonderful, vivid tale that allows the reader to lose herself in its mixture of charm, fear, romance and that fine line between good and evil.
The characters are endearing, each for their own reasons. And they're unique and solid, each with his or her own personality. They're real enough to take a breath any moment and step right out of the book.
That being said - there is a drawback and it's a BIG one. This is an unfinished story. You think, when you buy this second book that you'll get your ending - happy or no - but an ending. Sadly this book ends in a cliffhanger just as the first one did only there's nowhere to go next.
To introduce such a wonderful story and sell it to readers unfinished - and then to leave it that way - well, it's rather unprofessional. And as a reader it's extremely frustrating.
This is a great read, but don't buy it unless you enjoy being left hanging.
The Better Half The first two novels of this series, Witch and Curse, were very slow to get to the heart of the story. But here, in Legacy and Spellbound, we finally see why.
The action is picking up, for one. Everyone's on the move, running for their lives, or scrambling to save themselves, or hurrying to kill someone else before they themselves are killed.
For another, you finally love the characters. You love Holly for sacrificing so much of herself, even as it turns her Covenmates against her--you love her because she does it for the greater good OF both those Covenmates and her love, Jer. You love (and are frustrated with!) Jer for his suffering and his constant turning away Holly. You even start to find good attributes about Kari.
The flashback scenes make much, much more sense now. Every single one ties into the story, but you don't fully realize it until these two stories.
What threw me off was that, from the advertisement, I thought this would be the end of the series... but the end of Spellbound throws such a curve ball that it would be shameful of both the writers and publishers to NOT continue this series. As a reader, I need my closure, and I can only sit on edge and hope it comes someday.
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