Review: Eh
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 01 29, 2014
It could've been a good book. I didn't read this first one before this one, but got the idea behind it all. I had a few issues with the book.-The main character, Mercy, is a witch who doesn't know much. Her grandmother left before telling her she was one, let alone training her. So a girl appears on the TV for witch lessons that haven't gotten far yet. Here's the issue. There's an evil coven of veteran witches who are trying to restore themselves to full power. What does anyone do? Tell the girl, who's untrained, alone and either 15 or 16(not sure) to figure it out on her own.-There's a book that holds powerful magical words called the lexicon. Mercy knows she must find it or all is lost.  What does she do? Look in some closets and such and gives up. They push her to look again. What does she do? Avoid it. Again she's told she must find it and it's somewhere hidden in her house. So she whines and cries some more before finally using her "brainiac" brain.-She's supposed to be really smart and will be a great witch one day. Throughout the book she has moments of being smart, but overall she acts stupid. I figured out the members of the coven long before she did, even though it's insanelyobvious.-The moments that should have some suspense or action or show some great quality of character felt contrived and overly easy. They had no real depth.Overall a decent read I suppose. Do I care what happens next? No. To me that says it all.-