Review: Excellent start to a new series
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 08 2, 2012
Talking To Trees Book One.Dana Quinn has been meaning to write her dissertation for years. This is the year she is finally going to do it. She's taking a whole year off and is going up to the old family cabin in Fern, New Hampshire. Peace and solitude are going to be her only companions. Dana loves the old family cabin, it holds special memories from her childhood. Including her first love.Dana is looking forward to the year off and knows that at the end of it, she will be right on track for tenure and a very comfortable life. Dana doesn't figure her two neighbours into her lonely existence though. Carla, her childhood friend and first lover at the render age of thirteen and Liz, a woman in dire need of Dana's help. Help that Dana has no idea she can actually give. Heck, she doesn't even know she is a witch, let alone that she has special powers. Although, there has been some strange happenings in the past.........This first book in The Fern Witch series is a delightful page turner that I simply couldn't put down once I'd started it. At the beginning we have an ordinary woman, Dana at a crossroads in her life. Dana knows she has to make changes and thus begins a roller coaster ride on a journey of self discovery. But as with any journey, there are plenty of twists and turns and a few bumps along the way.This is Joanna Macowl's debut book, but you would never know it from the excellent writing and clean editing. She has excelled in her story telling, scenic descriptions, the multidimensional characters and their development. As the title suggests, this story has a pagan/wiccan theme. The witches are everyday ordinary people, with a little extra power. I loved the whole setting and the romance throughout is hot. I was pleased that I had the trilogy, I wouldn't have liked to have to wait for the second book in the series. This will be a definite re-read for me.