The Power by L.J. Smith

They have new covers for the books but I also added the original cover as well.

Author: L.J. Smith

Reading level: Young Adult

Publisher: HarperTeen

Rated 9/10

CAUGHT IN THE STRUGGLE BETWEEN GOOD AND EVIL...

Cassie has joined the most alluring—and deadly—in-crowd imaginable. But power comes with a price, and it's more dangerous than she knows. Torn between the dueling desires of the two leaders of the Secret Circle, she must ultimately choose between saving all of the New Salem, and her own dangerous love for bewitching Adam, which threatens to tear the circle apart. In the ultimate battle between good and evil, will Cassie's supernatural powers be strong enough to lead the coven out of danger? Or will she fall prey to the dark forces within?

...WILL SHE SACRIFICE HER LOVE FOR THE CIRCLE TO SURVIVE?

MY REVIEW
The third and final book from The Secret Circle series.I would give this an A-.I liked this but it did get a lil predictable towards the very end and I don't like the ending. I do like the evil character though.You find out the evil guy is her dad,it's kind of a "Luke I am you father moment".Been written way too many times in stories for my taste.But other than that I loved it. Overall I loved the whole series and it made the female characters really empowering and strong, that's something L.J. Smith does a lot in her books.I think most people will like this(well most females lol). Favorite would have to be Diana,she's beautiful, strong, forgiving, smart, fearless, unselfish, and a great friend altogether(she's not the main character but she's still my favorite).

The Captive by L.J. Smith

They have new covers for the books but I also added the original cover as well.

Author: L.J. Smith

Reading level: Young Adult

Publisher: HarperTeen

Rated 8.5/10

  CAUGHT IN THE STRUGGLE BETWEEN GOOD AND EVIL...

Cassie has joined the most alluring—and deadly—in-crowd imaginable. But power comes with a price, and it's more dangerous than she knows. Torn between the dueling desires of the two leaders of the Secret Circle, she must ultimately choose between saving all of the New Salem, and her own dangerous love for bewitching Adam, which threatens to tear the circle apart. In the ultimate battle between good and evil, will Cassie's supernatural powers be strong enough to lead the coven out of danger? Or will she fall prey to the dark forces within?

...WILL SHE SACRIFICE HER LOVE FOR THE CIRCLE TO SURVIVE?

MY REVIEW
This is the second book from The Secret Circle Series.I didn't like this on as much as the first so I would give it a B+.Cassie is blackmailed by one of the members of the club and soon learns what it feels like to betray someone you really care about.An evil is released that is killing people Puritan style(like they did in Salem a long time ago).Cassie learns the truth to why her mother brought her here and loses someone she has come to love.Again if you love L.J. Smith's other books it's more than likely you'll love this one too. It's kind of gets predictable and that's why I didn't like it as much as the first one.

The Initiation by L.J. Smith

They have new covers for the books but I also added the original cover as well.

Author: L.J. Smith

Reading level: Young Adult

Publisher: HarperTeen

Rated 9/10

                                                                                    

The Circle's Power has Lured Her Home...

Cassie must confront a shattering challenge: an ordeal that could cost her life or gain her more than she's ever imagined...

Charmed by the Secret Circle, she's initiated into the mysterious "in crowd," a coven of young witches whose power has controlled New Salem for three hundred years.

Hopelessly in love with the coven leader's boyfriend, Cassie risks falling prey to dark powers in order to have him. But if she does, her endless love could destroy the coven, New Salem, and her!

And She Will Emerge the Leader or Perish!

MY REVIEW
It's the first book in The Secret Circle series and it's about Cassie a shy,plain girl who is on vacation with her mother when one day on the beach she meets a boy who awakens something within her(she just doesn't realize it at the moment)She's in for the shock of her life because her mother tells her one day on her vacation they're not going back home but moving in with her estranged grandma she had never met on an island to a town called New Salem. It's a town started after the witch trials of Salem of those who had left. She learns right away at school who's in charge,a group of kids who seem to be called the club. And she soon makes friends with them because of their connection they share from living on the same street in the same neighborhood. It isn't long before things start to happen and that's when we get to the initiation. Well I would give this book an A-.It had some things I didn't like about it but it was fairly good and entertaining.And I thinks most who like these types of books(especially anything else L.J. Smith has written) will like this one too.

Sorceress by Celia Rees

Author: Celia Rees

Reading level: Young Adult

Publisher: Candlewick

Rated 10/10

                                                                                     

For the legions of readers spellbound by WITCH CHILD, here’s the fascinating next chapter - thanks to a Native American descendant with an uncanny link to the past.

Agnes closed her eyes in the heat and steam of the sweat lodge. She woke to air that was dry and cold around her. She was no longer Agnes, or even Karonhisake, Searching Sky. She was no longer American or Haudenosaunee. She was English, and her name was Mary, and she woke to find that she was dying, freezing to death.

It came to Agnes unbidden - a vision of Mary Newbury, alone in the snow, dying of the cold. A vision of a young woman who had lived in the 1600s, who had been driven from her Puritan settlement, accused of being a witch. It was an image of a woman whose life was about to change radically as she embarked on an existence that defied all accepted norms - embracing passionate independence, love, and loyalty to a proud, endangered community that accepted her as one of their own. Mary’s and Agnes’s lives have been separated by almost 400 years, but they are inextricably linked by more than blood. For, like Mary, Agnes has special powers - and Mary now seeks these powers to ensure that the rest of her story is told.

MY REVIEW
I give this book and A+ just like it's prequel. This is the sequel to Witch Child and I'm really glad this book was written.At the end Of Witch Child I just wanted to know more about what happened to Mary and this book does a great job of telling you. We get to meet people from the present working to find out what happened and we get to see Mary's life through Agnes a modern Irquois native girl. We also get to see how Native Americans were treated by the English and the French during their times of warring and it made me a lil upset just how many people don't know.It was tragic and it really made me mad that's how our country came to be. But if you love native culture,history, and good well written books then you will defiantly love this one, I do.

Witch Child by Celia Rees

Author: Celia Rees

Reading level: Young Adult

Publisher: Candlewick\

Rated 10/10

                                                                                     

It is 1659 and Mary Newbury, theyoung granddaughter of a witch, sees her wise and beloved grandmother tortured and hanged as a servant of the Devil. Then a stranger with hauntingly familiar eyes approaches her with an opportunity--safe passage to America. But the difficult ocean voyage only leads her to a community of inflexible, fearful grownups who try to decide for her who and what she will be. Mary must disguise herself as a pious Puritan girl, hiding her true nature, or else face terrible danger once again.

Now that the pages of Mary's journal have come to light, discovered in their centuries-old hiding place between the patches of a quilt, listeners can experience what it was like living in a society where differences were feared and defiance was deadly.

MY REVIEW
I give this book an A+. I really enjoyed reading it. It wasn't full of shit like a lot of books and it felt real like it actually happened. It's written in the style of a diary and it just makes it seem more personal that way.It makes me happy to live in a time of common sense and religious freedom,if something bad happened it wouldn't be blamed on witchcraft nowdays.Also made me mad at how early european americans viewed Native Americans and their beautiful sacred way of life. It gave you a look at how people were not too bright back then and those that were,were persecuted for it. I guess it wasn't considered such a great thing in those days to be intelligent. Makes me 100% happy to live today. Very well paced and full of lil facts if you're a history buff like myself.Even though Mary considered herself a witch she never made any of those bad things happen and it goes to show what jealousy and unintelligence can do to people.