Gianna Nicole Wicked

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by Nancy Holder

Complete text of Witch and Curse in a single volume. 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 inc
Complete text of Witch and Curse in a single volume. 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 going 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 launced 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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Published
September 9th 2008
by Simon Pulse

0760783209
(ISBN13: 9780760783207 )

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Not so much...There tries to be two souls in love, but after Book 2, nothing really going on...

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Apr 20, 2009

Tracy

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it was ok

OK. My friend Mandy and I picked this up on a whim. "Cool cover" we said to each other. Little did we know it is a series that has been out since 2003 and seems to have been published by a small publishing company. The two books in the store are really the first 4 books. The final book comes out in September. Apparently there was some publishing house issues. I am telling you all of this because. I feel so sorry for the people who read this book in 2003 and had to wait until 2009 for the conclus
OK. My friend Mandy and I picked this up on a whim. "Cool cover" we said to each other. Little did we know it is a series that has been out since 2003 and seems to have been published by a small publishing company. The two books in the store are really the first 4 books. The final book comes out in September. Apparently there was some publishing house issues. I am telling you all of this because. I feel so sorry for the people who read this book in 2003 and had to wait until 2009 for the conclusion. Each book ends with a cliff hanger. I have read A LOT of YA this year. I have fought demons and vampires and witches oh my. I have struggled through the adolescencs agnst of some twisted love stories. This story makes those stories feel like a cool breeze on a spring day. I have never felt some much frustration and sadness. It is fight after fight, denied love after denied love. And I-being the glutton for punishment-keep coming back for more. My heart fell when I realized we would not get the conclusion until July 7, 2009! Then I thought, I could be one of those waiting for 6 years. It is a good story. In order to hang in there with it you need to have your LOST or Damages cap on. There is a lot of time flipping and people being possessed. The point of view changes a lot--for each main character and there are several. The fact that they can weave the many POV together and tell essential two stories is amazing. It is an adventure reading about an family feud (witches against warlocks) that gives forbidden love at a new meaning.
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Jun 23, 2010

Kasey

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Warning: The following contains spoilers but PLEASE do yourself and favor and be spoiled. Title: Wicked Book One And Two: Witch and Curse Authors: Nancy Holder & Debbie Viguie Caption on the cover: "The first two novels in the captivating series..." Summary: Holly Cather'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 hom
Warning: The following contains spoilers but PLEASE do yourself and favor and be spoiled. Title: Wicked Book One And Two: Witch and Curse Authors: Nancy Holder & Debbie Viguie Caption on the cover: "The first two novels in the captivating series..." Summary: Holly Cather'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 going 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. Captivating - not exactly a word I'd use for this book, let alone the series. As an objective reader the amount of novels I have actually put down and left down could be counted on one hand. Indeed I am all for toughing it through the slow, the stupid and embarrassing as long as I feel there is something to be gained by the end... The first book (which I assumed was the middle) is 361 pages of point form plot. The characters are flat, two dimensional and completely unremarkable. But to be fair it is kinda hard to get substantial characters from: "Micheal kept smiling. "That's right, son." Gave him a wink. Left the room. Thought about killing him." Simple, to the point - Micheal is obviously the bad guy. *yawn* So what? Without anything to link me to the characters I've become a detached, unconcerned outsider looking in on series of unfortunate events. Boring! The plot is confusing, lapsing time in all directions without any sort of structure or flow. The sequence of events is interrupted by point of view changes every other paragraph and constant 'flashbacks' of background history. Many promising plot points were left uncompleted by the rapid jumps in time leaving many important events unresolved. Overall it felt like was reading a summary of potential brainstormed ideas hammered together rather then reading a 'captivating' novel. - Very little detail on witches,warlocks and magic (which is what the book is about) - Dry, uninteresting characters and practically no dialogue - feels death is used to force along plot (someone dies every other page >.> almost) - Weak beginning, no middle and didn't get to the end - Unrealistic : Holly and Jer (almost) have sex without EVER (they only know OF each other) saying a single word to each other. - Amanda walks in on Holly and Jer and poof - something happens and they all get burned and Holly hits the wall and breaks her arm. - No explanation - things just...move on as if the last thing never happened - Jer dies (or does he?) - I put down the book, PISSED. - Glared evilly at it - Left the room - Thought about killing it
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I had high hopes for this book when I bought it. Being that I'm a huge fan of anything having to do with witches, I was excited by the premise and the write-up seemed promising. After about 100 pages though, I had to give up and stop reading. I very rarely give up on a book, but this one is sadly, a DNF. The plot was difficult to get into, the explanations on the world and it's characters were sorely lacking. I didn't care for the protagonist, and the stereotypical dark magic was disturbing and
I had high hopes for this book when I bought it. Being that I'm a huge fan of anything having to do with witches, I was excited by the premise and the write-up seemed promising. After about 100 pages though, I had to give up and stop reading. I very rarely give up on a book, but this one is sadly, a DNF. The plot was difficult to get into, the explanations on the world and it's characters were sorely lacking. I didn't care for the protagonist, and the stereotypical dark magic was disturbing and quite frankly weird. It may have gotten better as the story went along, but I couldn't muster up the interest to keep going.
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Witch - I have always been fascinated as magic. As a child, I found magicians and the idea of magic just so awesome; I was in awe of Paul Daniels, he was practically a god. As I got older, my fascination didn't fade, but grew as I discovered there were real people out there who thought themselves witches. Whether or not people believe they have any power is down to each person's individual opinion, but I'm fascinated by the witches' personal beliefs. So, understandably, I was ecstatic to discove
Witch - I have always been fascinated as magic. As a child, I found magicians and the idea of magic just so awesome; I was in awe of Paul Daniels, he was practically a god. As I got older, my fascination didn't fade, but grew as I discovered there were real people out there who thought themselves witches. Whether or not people believe they have any power is down to each person's individual opinion, but I'm fascinated by the witches' personal beliefs. So, understandably, I was ecstatic to discover that the fictional story of the Wicked series is based on the beliefs of those who are Wiccan - serious research has gone into this series and I think it's awesome! So I read the first story in the first book, Witch. I really liked it! The whole idea of witches and warlocks who can perform magic and spells, as I said, is fascinating to me, so the story of this girl who not only finds out that she is a witch, but has the burden of dealing with the present day conflict based on the events of centuries past is just awesome! There are so many characters, so many POVs, six that I can remember, and so much going on, you'll be completely gripped throughout. There are qite a few characters that play quite a big part. First there's Holly, the main character. She struggles with the loss of her parents and her best friend, and having to fit in with these family members she never knew she had. Her greif is such a big part of this story that the only other thing you know about her is that she likes horses. Amanda and Nicole, Holly's twin cousins, are completely different; nice, mousey, friendly Amanda, and vain, popular, and selfish Nicole. There's Aunt Marie-Claire, who I disliked immensely, I felt she was just so shallow. The best characters in my opinion are Jer, Holly's love interest, and his evil father Michael. Their relationship is brilliant, and finding out about their beliefs, desires and goals - they are the story for me. To be honest, I found the story of Jer and his evil family more interesting than Holly finding out. It just felt to me that there was more research put into what Jer and his family believed and did, as they grew up knowing of their power, it was more solid. Where as Holly puts two and two together after strange things happen. That was a little odd, though. Although it took Holly a while to come to that conclusion, when she did start adding things together, she came to the conclusion of magic straight away, and automatically guessed she must be a witch. I think it would be a little more believable if she tried to believe it was something else first, or questioned her sanity. Then she tells her cousin, and her cousin believes her straight away, no problem. It just felt a little off. What also felt a little off was the "relationship" between Holly and Jer. I have no problem with unexplained magnetism, I can deal with that, I find it quite intriguing. But with Jer and Holly, there was hardly any build up, any interaction between them before, BAM, the big deal that's happening between them is, well, happening. The action is fantastic though! Seriously. I can't even begin to really go through it without spoiling it, but it is based on some awesome spells and chants and other things linked with Wicca. Seriously awesome story, and I'm hoping Curse will be just as good! Curse - If Witch was great, then Curse is amazing! I absolutely loved it! Curse picks up a few months after Witch finished, and not a huge amount has happened other than the Cahors Coven has grown in strength and knowledge. Curse is a darker novel compared to Witch, and more action packed. It’s a lot more graphic, but not sexually, rather in terms of what one does when practising black magic. You find out in the first story, but you actually see it in this book. It’s a little disturbing, which shows how great the authors’ talent is as they’re doing their job and effecting the reader. With the darker elements, you find yourself sucked into the book that little bit more. There are so many points of view in this story, you get to see through almost everyone’s eyes at one point or another. Where in Witch the blood feud between Isabeau and Jean is explained, in Curse, we get more history, but from after the events we already know about from the 13th century to the 17th century. The history is just fantastic, the detail that has gone into it so that present day story is more understandable. A lot of the story is the history. There is quite a bit of action set in present day, but most of the story is relating the history to now. A whole slew of great new characters in introduced in this story, involved in a connected subplot, a new coven. I can’t go into detail about them without spoiling the story, but I’m sure they will play an integral part in the future book when paths cross. I wouldn’t say there was a resolution to this story, it’s more of a progression; both sides make moves, consequences happen, and more questions arise. This is not to say that nothing major happens, a few major things happen, but there is no definitive end to the story. All I can say is that the next book, Wicked 2: Legacy & Spellbound, is going to be absolutely rivoting! I implore you to pick up this book, it’s fantastic!
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Jul 30, 2007

Samantha

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it was ok

Sort of a Romeo and Juliet with witches. No real character development, I never grew attached to any of the characters and I couldn't understand why the "Romeo and Juliet" were in love at all since they spent a cumulative maybe 2 hours in each others presence over the course of almost 2 years. The villains, the Devereauxs, have little to no sense when trying to kill the Cahor, or Cather, women. They weave these long complex spells that make all manner of monsters and goblins appear when I honestl
Sort of a Romeo and Juliet with witches. No real character development, I never grew attached to any of the characters and I couldn't understand why the "Romeo and Juliet" were in love at all since they spent a cumulative maybe 2 hours in each others presence over the course of almost 2 years. The villains, the Devereauxs, have little to no sense when trying to kill the Cahor, or Cather, women. They weave these long complex spells that make all manner of monsters and goblins appear when I honestly think that a well placed paid off sniper would be more effective. Perhaps this goes to show that the warlocks are stuck in another century of thinking but I'd believe in a more adapted villain better. Time passes entirely too quickly with not enough detail in the events that pass. There is a whole year that passes while Holly is learning magic but we never actually get to witness this education. The story skips around to the parts where "battles" take place, leaving me with the sense that the characters are almost always under siege when in fact there are usually a few weeks to a month between attacks. On a positive note, yes there is one, the family feud is not a cut and dry good verses evil. Not all of the Devereauxs are entirely evil and the Cathers well, there are different kinds of evil and theirs is a more subterfuge than all out brawl type. Some credit is due for forcing the characters (in their somewhat developments) to discover their moral limits (as well as the readers.)
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Apr 03, 2009

Renamski

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it was ok

This book started out ok. With many characters and motivations it had a lot of potential. The first book was a good introduction... lots of action, star-crossed lovers, evil bad guys to destroy. But, in the second book (this book is two in one), the story begins to unravel. The main character, Holly, loses momentum in the second book. Her story line just seems to plod along. One of the secondary characters, Nicole, is actually far more interesting in this book. The second book lost me when Holly
This book started out ok. With many characters and motivations it had a lot of potential. The first book was a good introduction... lots of action, star-crossed lovers, evil bad guys to destroy. But, in the second book (this book is two in one), the story begins to unravel. The main character, Holly, loses momentum in the second book. Her story line just seems to plod along. One of the secondary characters, Nicole, is actually far more interesting in this book. The second book lost me when Holly did somet
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