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.