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Spellbinding Maya Gold 9780545433808 Books Reviews

The book is written in first person perspective of a teenage girl named Abby. She is just your average high school student for the most part, except lacking in friends. She only has one at a time, which I found kind of odd since she wasn't the some major introvert either. Naturally, like so many stories before this one, she likes the most popular guy in school. Likewise, his girlfriend is the nastiest piece of work in the school.

A school assignment sends her to Salem to learn of her family tree. She learns she is related to one of the 'witches' that was hung. While there she meets a guy named Rem whom she finds herself drawn toward, gets a job at a New Age shop and finds herself back home with a potion/spellbook. The whole trip was uncanny, right down to her moving a cone using...magic!?

So...surprise, surprise she finds some love and attraction spells and uses them on the popular boy, Travis. Soon he is trailing her like a puppy. Very cliche. Yet off to the side is the mysterious Rem who seems to breath hot and cold with her. This leaves us with a very standard love triangle.

As Abby delves deeper into magic, she begins to learn she is an elemental witch and that there are other witches is Salem as well.

Enough of the plot though. That is more than enough to get you started. Overall, the book was a fun read. Yet very predictable. I finished the book with a "Been there, Done that" feeling.

The pace was nicely done but I would have preferred the story to slow just a tad so I could get more into the characters. One thing I was curious on is that her employer tells her that Travis likes her yet even after the spell, I was wondering if that was true and maybe she should have asserted herself naturally first. But she didn't even try. I would have like to know more about the real witches in Salem but we don't get too much besides her and Rem. There was one part of the book I thought she was going to have a 'Carrie' moment (from the Stephen King book). Alas, I was denied that.

So while it was enjoyable to read, it brought nothing new to me as an older reader. This books may be perfect for someone reading their first teen witch book, however. It is appropriate enough for younger teens to read. No foul language which was nice, and while there was romance it was more chick-lit in style. Only 2 kisses in the whole book! So parents can rest assured of a good, clean book. For more experienced readers this can still be a fun read on a day off but don't expect many surprises or unique twists.
Spellbinding was a fun and light read with witches, magic, and a little bit of romance. I loved the blend of Salem history mixed with present day normality.

Abby was sort of an outsider in school and felt like she was pretty much invisible to her fellow classmates. She crushed on the most popular guy in school, but of course, he spent his time with the most popular girl, a snakelike mean girl named Megan. (Seriously, why do all the Megan's have to be terrible?! I promise I'm a nice person.) She started working on genealogy project and found out her mother's line led back to Salem with some strange discrepancies. One thing led to another as she became drawn the the town and ended up working in a weird eclectic shop, crushing on a gorgeous guy at the coffee shop nearby, and becoming anything but normal.

Abby started to notice strange coincidences and wondered if she was the cause. Then, she swore the cute guy from the coffee shop was communicating with her without speaking. Things were getting stranger for Abby by the day, but she started to gain a new confidence and realize she did indeed have some sort of magical link. I loved Rem's character because he was a little mysterious, but I could tell he was an all around nice person who knew a little more about what Abby was dealing with than he let on. It drove Abby nuts that he kept giving mixed signals, but I thought it made him more of a challenge.

I liked seeing Abby grow a little as a character and have some more confidence, but then she kind of went overboard. Putting an attraction spell on Travis and getting into catfights with Megan over it was a little over the top for me. I understood Abby's frustration at Rem's mixed signals, but instead of dealing with her feelings about him, she seemed to distract herself with this weird lapdog relationship with Travis, even though she knew he was under a spell. I felt like all of the spells she was doing were run of the mill power gone crazy spells that any teenager does in any witchy situation and I was disappointed by it. I wanted Abby to rise above it.

The conflict involving the elemental witches and Abby's place in the community of witches was definitely interesting and I loved the addition of Rem's involvement. I enjoyed seeing the witch secrets slowly unravel throughout the book as Abby got closer to the truth.

I just wanted more from Abby and more focus on figuring things out instead of being petty. I mean, some scenes were a little too dramatic and Carrie-like for me to really buy into. I guess I assume these fictional characters have read books and seen movies of that sort to not get roped in. Obviously, putting spells on people out of anger is not a good idea and nothing good can come from it! It's like reading a horror novel where the people really do run upstairs as an escape from the killer downstairs. It's just so cliché and it was driving me nuts a little bit.

I enjoyed Spellbinding and thought it was a fun and interesting read. I definitely couldn't put it down and sped right through it. I loved Rem's character and the relationship development on that end. Spellbinding was full of magic, witchcraft, secrets, and choices and I'd recommend it, especially if you are in the mood for a light, quick, but thoroughly enjoyable witchy read.

Review originally published at Love, Literature, Art, and Reason book review blog
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Eh...Cover is great, the blurb is great, the overall story is not so great. I' used to stereotypes in books, but this had too many of them. Abby isn't popular, but I thought she would have a few more friends than she did. She is crushing on the most popular guy and he has a girlfriend, who could use some adjustments.
Naturally there isn't much she could do, until she finds out she is related to a real witch from back in the day of the Salem Trials. Abby is surprised, but takes the news much better than I thought she would have. But then again she was quick to finding out about magic and getting a spellbook and everything.

So with the book in hand she looks up love spells and find just the right one. Abby goes on to use it on her crush Travis. Now he loves her and then Rem shows up again and things become a love triangle. Now I don't mind those, but this love triangle wasn't made too well. I mean right off the bat, you can tell Travis is under a spell and Rem isnt. So this causes some issues and this triangle could have been avoided or written out better.

This book wasn't all bad though, I did have many parts that I loved, but then there would be something that happens that I didn't like. There was a lot of back and forth with liking and hating the book.
I love this book it left me never wanting too put it down I rate it5 stars because of the fact it never left me bord