Review: Love Blossoms with Music and Magic
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 03 22, 2013
A Celtic Witch (A Modern Witch Series: Book 6)Debora Geary has done it again, taken her stable of truly loveable characters and had them dance together to the music of Ireland in a small fishing village, Fisher's Cove, Nova Scotia, the realm of matriarch of Nova the Scotia clan, Moira.  This book starts with a review of the characters that have populated this remote place in the past and continues with an update introducing the new members of this isolated community.  Buddy MacMaster, an 88 year old fiddler with roots directly to the Irish origin of Celtic fiddling is the resident expert and mentor to all new and budding talent.  Cassidy Farrell is a young beautifly fiddler who has been making the rounds internationally and gaining fame as the one to watch.  She still visits the Barn in Margaree and plays with Buddy as her schedule allows.  They both delight in the innerplay of each others music.  Ellie is a budding fiddler with talent and aspirations that may lead her to challange Cassidy in a few year.  Dave is M/C at the Barn and Innkeeper in Margaree.  He's the one who suggested that Cassidy may enjoy the environment at the Sea Trance Inn In Cape Breton run by Elorie's husband, Aaron with their twins Aislin and Lucus.  Marcus and the violet eyed babe that Even fostered on Marcus and the village, Morgan, also live there.  The lovable witchlings, pirate loving Sean, Book reading Kevin and Lizzie, a small healer dynamo also live here.What strikes me most about all Debora's books is the love that is expressed by her characters and how it binds them all together.  Whether it is causing flowers to grow in fallow patches of earth or baking cookies or bread, it is the reach out to share all with others that is distinctive in her stories.  I have an admission to make, I rarely make it through the first few pages before I have to remove and clean my glasses to make it possible to see through the tears.  Further, I need a box of Kleenex to make it through the rest of the book.  Even my heart smiles with the joy that is expressed in her stories.  I love all her characters especially the Irish slant.  Maybe it is my mothers maiden name of Murphy that makes expressing emotion imperative.  As I read her books and assimulate her new characters and their individual attributes, I wonder how older characters are fairing and can hardly wait for another book with updates on them.  She has made them part of my family and now I'm interested and concerned with their welfare and individual growth, both in magical powers and understanding of their world.  This book is a worthy addition to Debora Geary's body of work.  Now, I'm waiting for the next book!