Review: Lovely Fantasy Story
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 04 17, 2014
Felicity Lucas’ mother has just died and Felicity goes to live with her father whom she barely knows. Sent to a boarding school while living with her mother, she tended to keep very much to herself. On the first day at her new school however, she meets Hollie, one of the most popular students who sticks to “Fliss” like glue. Suddenly Felicity comes to realize what it feels like to have a friend for the first time.This is a lovely fantasy story with more than one theme. One of the themes is the importance of friends and family. I like that Ms. Bridgeman brings this important theme into her novel in such a natural way.Hollie helps Felicity to settle in at the new school, and since they share all the same classes that makes it easy. Since Hollie is a non-stop chatterbox, even though Felicity would rather be alone, at least she doesn’t have to talk much. Gradually Hollie starts calling Felicity her BFF and Felicity begins to share things with her that she’s never shared with anyone before, and finding that it feels good.When things start to get weird and Felicity sees one of the students hold flames in his hands, and then disappear from school, and then the school counselor has her deceased mother’s journal and threaten her in the hallway at school, Felicity is glad she has Hollie and her twin brother as her friends.I liked the element of mystery with regards to the school counselor. He really didn’t act like a school counselor and you had to wonder what was going on with him. He seemed rather sinister.There are a number of plot twists in Spellweaver and Felicity learns quite a few things about her parents and herself that she never could have imagined in her wildest dreams. I thought this first book was a good beginning for the series which is to follow. It does a good job of giving the backstory to the characters and developing their personalities. I did find the ending to the story a little abrupt though.I enjoyed Spellweaver and I will definitely be on the lookout for Book 2 of the Spellweaver Chronicles.  I gave this novel 3 stars out of 5.Thank you to the author who provided a copy of the novel in exchange for a fair and honest review. A positive opinion was not required. All thoughts are my own.This review was publshed on my blog Shelf Full of Books [...]