Curse (Wicked Series) [Audiobook, CD, Unabridged] [Audio CD]

Nancy Holder (Author), Debbie Viguie (Author), Cassandra Morris (Reader)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 20, 2010 | Series: Wicked Series (Book 2)

Holly Cathers and her twin cousins have just graduated from high school, and they’re moving on toward their first semester of college. But no matter where they go, they will never be entirely free of their past. The three are descendants of a powerful coven of witches – in constant danger from a rival clan. Holly learns from a vision that Jer is still alive. As leader of the coven, she resolves to rescue him despite the fact that he is a member of the Deveraux clan and therefore her enemy. But her efforts are thwarted when her aunt reveals the nature of an ancient curse visited upon all Cathers witches. It becomes clear to Holly that the death of her parents was no accident, and a similar plague is sure to fall on anyone she grows close to. As her power strengthens, can Holly escape her destiny? And if her destiny includes Jer, does she want to?

Editorial Reviews

From School Library Journal

Grade 7 Up-In this second book in the series, Holly and her cousins Amanda and Nicole are still ensconced in a feud with the evil Deveraux warlocks. Nicole is traveling throughout Europe trying to deny that she is a witch and to avoid giving in to the guilt she feels for having abandoned her family and the coven. Ghostly ancestors from both sides-some decomposing, some inhabiting their relatives' bodies, some seemingly intact-help to fuel the animosity between the clans. Unfortunately, the great battle (and the assumed climax of the story) stops abruptly, without giving readers any clue as to why. The plot is confusing and transports characters from one time period to another, one astral plane to the next, with little explanation. There are too many characters and too many subplots to keep track of, and nothing seems resolved or completely fleshed out. There is not a single sympathetic character in the bunch, and it is difficult to tell throughout much of the book the difference between the good guys and the bad.
Kimberly L. Paone, Elizabeth Public Library, NJ
Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

About the 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. Her books from Simon Pulse include the New York Times bestselling series Wicked and the novel The Rose Bride. 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. Visit her at nancyholder.com or follow her on Twitter at @nancyholder. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Audio CD
• Publisher: Brilliance Audio on CD Unabridged Lib Ed; Library edition (February 20, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1441835342
• ISBN-13: 978-1441835345
• Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 6.4 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)

Customer Reviews

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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars very good sequel 2 witch!!, January 31, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Curse (Wicked) (Mass Market Paperback)

this is the second book in the wicked series. it lefts off of holly learning from a vision that jer is still alive and tries to figure out how to save him. she also learns that he is inprisioned on and island somewhere where she must find him. she also discovers about the curse that was place on the cathers coven during the time the cahors and the daeveraux coven fought that places where if any cathers which should drown in a body of water. anyways i thought that this was a excellent book but not as good as the first one. the next book thats coming out of this series is called legacy and it wont be out until sometime this summer. g2g

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent, but confusing..., April 30, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Curse (Wicked) (Mass Market Paperback)

I really loved the first book, full of adventure, and romantic endevaurs, but I felt so confused by BOTH books because there doesn't seem to be a good-bad conflict. It seems like the two sides are bad, or the Cahor's are a little less bad than the Deverauxs, but there doesn't seem to be clear sides, which confuse me a lot throughout the book, and so do the time-switches. But all in all, I loved the plot and the character distinctions.

2.0 out of 5 stars Less than thrilled, January 22, 2012

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Donna at Bites (Connecticut) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Curse (Wicked) (Mass Market Paperback)

Curse is the sequel to Witch in the Wicked series and the only reason I read it was because the two books were combined in one. Eh. They're cheaper that way, actually. And to be honest, I didn't have a choice. It was either two or none.

Really, Curse was just more of the same of Wicked. There was magic, struggles with magic, angst and running. Not much happened in this story except we find that Nicole's run off to Europe because she freaked out (the more interesting plot line, in my opinion) and there was a final Hollywood battle a la The Craft towards the end. And Holly drowns a cat for the sake of her powers. I guess she's getting back to her roots.

I'll reiterate again, this type of book isn't my cup of tea. I'm much more inclined to read about real witchcraft than the CGI version.

I actually ended up pretty bored with the plot, mainly because of the amount of angst around everyone. Keri's pissy with Holly because she got Jeraud killed/undead/whatever he is now. Amanda's pissed at Holly because she wants to find this guy and doesn't want her leaving. Tommy will do whatever Amanda does. Tante Cecile and her daughter and pretty much filling in gaps in magic and really don't serve any other purpose, as were Dan, Kialish and Eddie and Michael is hell-bent on world domination, from beginning to end. Strong on angst, short on action.

What I would like to know is with these witches and warlocks, are the only things they can conjure against each other fireballs? There had to be, like, three times as many fireballs in this book than in the last. Is that the defense du jour because it got redundant pretty quickly. Again, more of the same.

What really irked me, when Holly was commanding the dead army, she spoke in French and the third person proceeded to say she'd never spoken French in her life. Funny considering she explained away the odd, out of body French speaking in the first book by saying she took it in high school. Inconsistencies like this bother me. So did she or didn't she ever speak French before?

Still, I found the historical subplot much more interesting than the current time plot line. There was change, deviation. Yes, more of the same but the methods were different. The scene changed. The characters changed. There was more promise. Not just stagnant characters that just stood around taking up space while the more prominent protagonists tried to figure out what the hell to do. Now it seems like the secondary characters are being picked off, in one form or another, as the story carries on. Am I right in guessing that Holly will have to face the final battle on her own because she's the supreme witch that's sharing a body with someone else?

I'll never know because I'm not going to keep reading the series. Don't get me wrong, it's not bad. It's written quite well but it just wasn't something I could get into. Fireball magic doesn't really hold my attention to begin with and when the story gets to a point where that's all that there seems to be, I'm going to get bored quickly.