Carregue numa fotografia para ir para os Livros Google.
A carregar... The Seventh Witchpor Shirley Damsgaard
Nenhum(a) A carregar...
Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. For my review of The Seventh Witch: An Ophelia and Abby Mystery # 7 by Shirley Damsgaard please go to: http://www.myshelf.com/mystery/10/seventhwitch.htm Abbey & Ophelia go back home for Great Aunt Mary's 100th birthday celebration where they have to reckon with the family's past and a curse that should have been laid to rest a generation before. Abbey begins to succumb to bad magic as well power of mind...Ophelia has to fight Abbey's will to lay down & die, Great Aunt Mary's jealousy. and the local "bad" witch who thrives on bad magic & threats. Add to this Ophelia's mother & father are present as is Tinks (Ophelia's adopted daughter), who with Ophelia's father is messing with the "Ley Lines" and burial mounds..... FINALLY, Ophelia gets out of her "This isn't real" rut and faces the truth of her roots, folk magic, inner strength & power. For me, this was the best of the series...... sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
Pertence a Série
"A Golden Broomstick to [these] most unusual sleuths, a septuagenarian witch and her psychic granddaughter." --Carolyn Hart The Seventh Witch is the seventh installment in Shirley Damsgaard's Agatha Award-nominated Ophelia and Abby series featuring a small-town librarian with paranormal abilities and her endearingly unapologetic witch grandmother. Combining the best aspects of mystery and fantasy--a sort-of Miss Marple with magic--Damsgaard's The Seventh Witch is a whodunit with a difference; a delightful diversion for anyone who loves the supernatural charm of Charlaine Harris's Sookie Stackhouse novels or Kim Harrison's bestselling excursions to The Hollows. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
Current DiscussionsNenhum(a)Capas populares
Google Books — A carregar... GénerosSistema Decimal de Melvil (DDC)813.6Literature English (North America) American fiction 21st CenturyAvaliaçãoMédia:
É você?Torne-se num Autor LibraryThing. |
Here it is, the seventh and the last. I have been semi-hooked on the series from book one, delighted to indulge in another paranormal mystery.
Ophelia has come a long way since book one. She's come to embrace who she is, accept her powers, learn how to use them more, dug into her heritage, embraced her family, found a new daughter and romantic interest, and feels more at peace in her life.
In this book, the author brings the main characters out of the small, familiar town into the mountains to reunite in a large family reunion. While there Ophelia goes up against the local vicious witch who wants to destroy her family. The decades old rivalry comes to a head as Ophelia this time has to solve a whole new mystery - what really happened in the past and how to fix it in the present.
I like that Ophelia is braver now and confident in her abilities. I liked the realistic vulnerability that is finally exposed in her grandmother Abby, who was a little cartoonish before with her mannerisms and thought processes. It was interesting to see the tension in the family with the different witches and their different hang-ups. The family drama made this one work well as a series ender.
Finally, after so many books and men, Ophelia finds one that will hang around. I won't ruin it with a spoiler, so I'll just say the decision is a good one and I'm happy with her choice.
While Ophelia digs into her bag of magic tricks, the magic is still rather subdued compared to some glimpses in the first book. This must be a personal preference of the author to make it more realistic and her type of witch. Personally I would have liked to see more of the powers be supernatural over nature driven.
Overall this was a fun, quirky series that ended on a high note, wrapping things up well without dangling threads, giving peace to the man characters and making it seem like they have full lives ahead of them.
( )