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Curse (Wicked Series)

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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

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.

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.

M'k this book, definetly a page turner. In the first one Holly was kind of mellow and kept to herself. I mean, you think after losing her best friend, her parents, and her aunt the shock of losing a guy she barely knew wouldn't be that great. Well you'd think. She's gone completely insane in this book, but that only makes it more interesting. Even more losses drive her over the edge but it only makes her more powerful. Nicole has fled Seattle in fear of her heritage but little does she know she can't escape it. She meets a White Coven that swears to protect her but she is torn from them by the Supreme Coven and is forced to marry and evil warlock. That's only the beginning!

holly and amanda are continuing their feud with the devereaux warlocks. nicole on the other hand has fled to parts unknown to escape the magic that nearly cost them their lives. holly is now the lead of the coven and her powers are growing past anything she ever expected. this book is not quite as good as the first one, but it will keep you enthralled with evil plots and schemes, lots of history lessons and life and death situations. i read it in 24 hours so it was not all bad.

Plot holes still plague the story.

The main problem most people will have is that there is no hero. The main character, Holly, devolves from Anti-hero to villain, and deserves to die every bit as much as the people she's fighting. Of the support characters, the actual "good gals and guys" are weak, whiney, and ineffective. There is very little real depth to the characters.

This is the second time the climactic battle description just stops, instead of ending. We get to the start of the climax at the end of one chapter, and the next chapter starts 10 minutes later looking back on what just happened.

The focus on how majic works is very unclear, as is how these kids are learning majic.

All things considered, if you need a break from Harlequin Romance novels and soap operas, this is fine, but otherwise you may want to look at a different series like Xanth, Mythadventures, Spellsinger, Hitch-hiker's Guide, or even Star Wars.

I loved the scenes with Nicole in Spain with the Spanish Coven and I anticipated them eagerly when not reading them, but as for the rest of the book, it doesn't quite measure up to the mystical quality of the first book.

All of the characters are out of character, the plot moves around way too much, and there are too many new characters to deal with. It didn't feel like the authors' hearts were in this book too much, especially after Nicole was taken to England and Holly sacrificed Hecate.

There are a lot of things in this book that aren't quite up to par with the last one, and I haven't even finished reading it. Frankly, I'm too scared to see what is going to happen next because I know that it will be an unpleasant shock rather than a good one.

Read it for yourself, though. It may appeal more to you than it does to me.

O my gosh!!!
I read this book in about 3 hours!
It was amazingggggggggg!!!!!!!
It draws you in from the begginning !!!!!!!
the whole series was really good :]

This sequel to Witch begins around a year after the death of Holly's parents. Holly's coven has joined with the Rebel Coven *Jer's Coven* in order to protect themselves from Michael Deveraux.

Nicole has run away because she can't deal with the powers and dangers associated with being a witch. Traveling around Europe, she senses that she's being chased by the Deveraux's. She travels to Spain and meets up with a coven there, who takes her in and promises to protect her. She is later kidnapped by a warlock, James.

Meanwhile, Jer is severely burned and on the island of Avalon. Sir William's son James sets the healing process in motion, but Jer fears Holly's reaction if/when they ever meet again. They meet in each other's dreams, but he warns her away because he fears for her safety.

The war between Holly's clan and Michael comes to a free-for-all at the ocean, because of a curse on the Cahors that curses all of their loved ones to die by water. Michael tries to use this to his advantage, and calls up all his dead ancesters to fight Holly. Isabeau, the spirit of Holly's ancestor in turn, helps Holly to call on thier ancestors as well.

Holly and her friends manage to escape and are taken to the Mother Coven in Paris. They want her to go and rescue Nicole, who was forced to marry James, but she *and Isabeau* want to go to Jer *and Jean*. Reluctantly, Holly agrees to rescue Nicole first.

The story ends with Holly and Jer dreaming of being together.