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Book Description
Publication Date: February 1, 2014
Savannah is considered a Southern treasure, a city of beauty with a
rich, colorful past. Some might even call it magical…
To the uninitiated, Savannah shows only her bright face and genteel manner.
Those who know her well, though, can see beyond her colonial trappings and
small-city charm to a world where witchcraft is respected, Hoodoo is feared,
and spirits linger. Mercy Taylor is all too familiar with the supernatural side
of Savannah, being a member of the most powerful family of witches in the
South.
Despite being powerless herself, of course.
Having grown up without magic of her own, in the shadow of her talented
and charismatic twin sister, Mercy has always thought herself content. But when
a series of mishaps—culminating in the death of the Taylor matriarch—leaves a
vacuum in the mystical underpinnings of Savannah, she finds herself thrust into
a mystery that could shake her family apart…and unleash a darkness the line of
Taylor witches has been keeping at bay for generations.
In The Line, the first book
of the Witching Savannah series, J.D. Horn weaves magic, romance, and betrayal
into a captivating Southern Gothic fantasy with a contemporary flare.
A younger audience
might appreciate this book more than a more mature one. This book would appeal to the 15 to 25 year
old range while leaving most of the more mature readers a little cold or out in
left field. The author has done a good
job trying to reconcile the fact that his main protagonist is a very immature 21
year old, but her (Mercy Taylor, witch) attitudes and naiveté grated on my
nerves. I am sure that in upcoming books
in this series will show Mercys growth. This book reminded me very much of
Charlaine Harris’s early books about Sookie Stackhouse, before Sookie had a
chance to grow. There is actually more wrong; things that bothered me greatly,
with this book than I have described \in this review.
Mercy is one of a pair of twins – one has gotten all the magic
and Mercy is left without any. Or, so it seems on the surface. This book is
filled with murder, backstabbing, lies upon lies and yes magic! We start out with a book that seems as if it
is going to be a romance novel about a love triangle between one boy and the
two sisters, but soon a murder is thrown into the equation and whole lot of
other magical maneuverings, black-magic, more deaths, more violence and a whole
lot of betrayal.
If the author can get Mercy and her kin over the hump, then
this will most likely turn into a lively and likable series.
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