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    Wicked: Witch & Curse by Nancy Holder, Debbie Viguie

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    • Age Range: Young Adult
    • Pub. Date: May 2006
    • 660pp

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      • Pub. Date: May 2006
      • Publisher: Barnes & Noble
      • Format: Paperback, 660pp
      • Age Range: Young Adult

      Synopsis

      Holly Cathers's world shatters when her parents are killed in a terrible accident. Wrenched from her home in San Francisco, she is sent to Seattle to live with her relatives, Aunt Marie-Claire and her twin cousins, Amanda and Nicole.

      In her new home, Holly's sorrow and grief soon give way to bewilderment at the strange incidents goings on around her. Such as how any wish she whispers to her cat seems to come true. Or the way a friend is injured after a freak attack from a vicious falcon. And there's the undeniable, magnetic attraction to a boy Holly barely knows.

      Holly, Amanda, and Nicole are about to be launched into a dark legacy of witches, secrets, and alliances, where ancient magics yield dangerous results. The girls will assume their roles in an intergenerational feud beyond their wildest imaginations...and in doing so, will attempt to fulfill their shared destiny.

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      This volume reissues the first two books in the "Wicked" series, Witch and . In the first book, Holly Cather and her family go on a vacation. Everyone dies in an accident except for Holly. Her only living relative is her father's estranged sister, her Aunt Marie-Claire. The aunt lives in Seattle with her twin daughters, Amanda and Nicole. Unbeknownst to Holly and her uncle, Aunt Marie-Claire is heavily involved with a warlock named Michael Deveraux. He and his sons are determined to use and destroy Marie-Claire and her family. This is because Holly, Marie Claire and her daughters are descendents of the powerful Cahors family. The reason for this hatred is that there has been a long and bloody magical feud between the Cahors and the Deveraux families. When Holly arrives in Seattle, she meets Michael Deveraux's youngest son, Jer. The connection between them is electric and mystical. This is because they are the reincarnated, star-crossed lovers, Jean de Deveraux and Isabeau Cahors. They were torn apart by the violent hatred between their two families. This first book of the "Wicked" series has recently been rereleased along with its sequel. A third book is slated for future release. The story is melodramatic at best and the sex magic and ensuing violence is gratuitous. The prose does nothing to ameliorate the situation. If you decide that you have to pick up this book, you might want to speed read your way through it. In the second book in the "Wicked" series, and the gang is all back! Except for everyone who died, right? Not so. Jer's not dead (even though he was convincingly killed off in the previous book). He is alive and being held captive in the mystical islandof Avalon. Yes, that Avalon. Plus, Holly, Nicole and Amanda are back with their witchy powers in tow. Not really. Nicole has gone off on to wander aimlessly throughout the globe trying to escape her magical destiny. She also meets several stereotypes along the way. This leaves Holly and Amanda alone to face a vindictive Michael Deveraux. More and more people die. A sea monster appears, described as a, "quivering, filthy mess, the tentacles everywhere, the mess that was its head." Well, it all comes down to personal preferences. One man's … well, you know the rest. As for me, I found both this and the first book of the series to be unappealing. I mourn the fate of Gothic fantasy fiction. Reviewer: Monserrat Urena

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      Biography

      Best-selling author Nancy Holder has published sixty books and more than two hundred short stories. She has received four Bram Stoker awards for fiction from the Horror Writers Association, and her books have been translated into more than two dozen languages. She has written or cowritten twenty Buffy and Angel projects. A graduate of the University of California at San Diego, Nancy is currently a writing teacher at the school. She lives in San Diego with her daughter, Belle, and their growing assortment of pets.

      Debbie Vigui - holds a degree in creative writing from UC Davis. Her Simon Pulse books include the Wicked series, co-authored with Nancy Holder, and the Once upon a Time novels SCARLET MOON and MIDNIGHT PEARLS. She currently lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband Scott. Visit her at www.debbieviguie.com.

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      Witch and Curseby Anonymous

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      November 02, 2009: Witch & Curse

      Nancy Hidier and and Debbie Viguie

      Simon Pulse

      Fantasy and Adventure

      Have you ever wanted to just conjure something up? Be able to perform amazing feats as if, well, magic. That's just what this book is about. A girl named Holly Cathers who is seventeen to eighteen through the book is discovering her powers as a witch. In the beginning of the first book, Witch and Curse, she is on a rafting trip with her parents, her best friend Tina, and one of the many guides to the river. What would seem like a great trip is dampened by the fact that Holly's parents seem to fight a lot. Then, in the midst of one of their arguments, tragedy strikes. The raft flips over, and later, it is found out that Holly is the only survivor. With the help of her twin cousins and a deaf kitten, will she be able to overcome the forces of evil? What about the black fire that was conjured? Will it be an obstacle too hard to overcome? As the saying goes, someone may have won the battle, but they haven't won the war. This is the beginning of the series of novels be Nancy Hidier and Debbie Viguie.

      Holly Cathers is the main dynamic character of the thrilling series Wicked. She is both protagonist and antagonist, depending on which view of mind you are reading through. Some traits about her would be that she is stubborn, and is able to tell herself something even though it is not true. She is brave, but during these first two novels, she is struggling with emotions. When Holly moves to her haunted aunt's mansion of which she never knew exhisted, she sees things that she soon realizes are part of her ancestress,' Isabeau's (An important static character), past, which is now entangled with Holly's future. Along this extraordinary journey filled with monsters, dark forces and a little romance, Holly meets Isabeau's lost love, Jean. They both love each other as well as have sworn vendettas that reach centuries back. Holly soon falls in love with Jeraud, or Jer for short, the man Jean possessed, but no one is willing to believe that Holly is feeling her own emotions. Some things about Jer that you might want to know are he considers him self responsible for many things, is thought to be evil and is a dynamic chareacter. She finds out that he is a renegade member of her sworn enemies, the Deveraux family. Can she trust him? What about his father, Michael Deveraux, who does not have a care for the law or consequences of his actions? Amanda Cathers-Anderson is one of the cousins that Holly never knew about in the unknown branch of her family. Amanda is known to be kind, but she is willing to stand up for what's right, she considers herself an outcast when thrown into a group of people and helps Holly through very much. She is also one of the only people that can help Holly control her ever-growing temper. She is sharing the burdens of the great adventure, but is it too much for her?

      Witch and Curse is the perfect book for someone who seeks adventure, fantasy and maybe a little humor along the way. It keeps readers entertained by switching the point of view through many characters with varying opinions as well as shifting through different time periods and different adventures. This book is apart of a group called the Simon Pulse collection, so if you enjoy this book, there are sequels as well as other books similar to this. Once you read this one, nothing, even a two-headed demon, is going to stop you from getting your...

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      wicked seriesby book-worm101

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      October 11, 2009: this was the best series i have ever read! it made me laugh and cry and made me feel like i was actually there and i felt like i got to know the character's weaknesses and there strieghths and thier love. i got to know the characters in my own little special way. this kept me reading and i couldnt get myself to stop because right from the beginning it was sooooooooooooooooooooooooo interesting. i fell in love with this series and i will never forget and i would recomend this book to anyone who likes supernatural things and even to people who love romance books because the love and hate between isabeau and jean was so passionate and it went on for centuries while they moved. so i would so recomend this book to anyone who likes reading and even if you dont like reading you be able to stop when you open these books.


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