Review: Syd in Charge!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 12 15, 2013
This book is one of my favorites in the series so far. Syd really shows her strength not only to the reader, but the entire Council of Witches. Her mother, Miriam, is arrested for absurd charges and Syd is thrown into leading her coven while the trial goes on. It’s heartbreaking to see Syd have to take the reins from her mother, reluctant as all heck. But, when Erica, her mother’s second in command, and of course the malicious Celeste try to take over the power, she shows them a thing or two. She can do this. Syd has to.It made me mad to discover just why the Council had been ignoring the Hayle Coven’s requests for help in the past for so long. An old enemy now sits as Head council and is determined to bring Miriam down. But Syd won’t be taking this sitting down. Along with her crazy Gram, who is still hiding but hanging out in Syd’s head, Syd puts on her best Coven Leader attitude and decides to show them all she’s got and save her mother.I loved how Syd really stood her ground in this one. Even through threats on her life, threats on her coven and facing the last person on earth she’d ever want to see again, she perseveres. That’s just Syd. She gets a crap load of issues to deal with from enemy coven leaders, to finding friendship amongst the leaders too. Who can she trust? What if she loses in the end? Oh the tragedy of it all! The storytelling is only getting better and more intense. It leaves this reader digging my nails into the chair and grinding my teeth.