Thursday, August 16, 2012

Review: Audrey's Guide to Witchcraft



Audrey's Guide to Witchcraft (Book 1)
by Jody Gehrman
Published June 30th 2012
by Magic Genie Books
Review copy
Summary from Goodreads:
Falling in Love, baking a magical cake, fighting an evil necromancer—it’s all in a day’s work for Audrey Oliver, seventeen-year-old witch-in-training. When her mother goes missing and her twenty-one-year-old witchy cousin shows up out of the blue, Audrey knows something’s gone horribly, dangerously wrong. Now it’s up to her to get her own magical powers up to speed before everyone she loves is destroyed by the sorcerer intricately connected to her mother’s secret past.


Thoughts:
When her mother mysteriously disappears and a girl claiming to be her long lost cousin arrived at her doorstep, Audrey can't help but feel suspicious of it all. All this time, Audrey thought she's just a boring normal teen who is secretly jealous of her prettier younger sister and loyal to her best friend. But then she found out that her mother is a powerful witch on a hunt for a creepy necromancer with sinister plans of his own and that apparently Audrey's a witch too.

In between honing her magical skills under the tutelage of the quirky Sadie, keeping tabs on her little sister who is in a band, and fending off bullies off her shy best friend, Audrey also finds herself falling in love with the dreamy Julian who happens to be her sister's sort of band manager.

The main draw of the story is certainly the colourful cast of characters. Sadie the long lost cousin with her slew of pets including some kittens and snakes is funny and unpredictable. Bridget the best friend is a girl with a big heart who is constantly preyed upon by the mean popular girls while Meg the cool younger sister is totally ignorant of what's really happening to her family.

And since Audrey has a talent for preparing delicious mouth watering desserts, there's also some recipes thrown in the book that readers may want to try. I love it when I had no expectations at all for a book and end up enjoying it so much. This is certainly a light and amusing story filled with so many likeable characters that I had a hard time putting it down.

Recommended for: fans of witches
Verdict: 4 stars.
In my Witches & Witchcraft Reading Challenge 
Available on: Amazon


Don't forget to check out the interview with Jody and also a giveaway of the book tomorrow!

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