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Drawn into the schemes of an angry wizard, teenager Carin must decipher the words of an alien book, follow the clues in a bewitched poem, conjure a dragon from a pool of magic--and tread carefully around a seductive but volatile, emotionally scarred sorcerer who can't seem to decide whether to love her or kill her. Book 1 of a series--the story continues in Waterspell Book 2: The Wysard.
JanPeck
Posted June 10, 2012
Waterspell is extraordinary! Remarkable! The only problem is I can't stop reading it -- how am I going to get anything else done? This is what happens when you get started with a writer who has the gift! You will love it!
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Was this review helpful? Yes NoThank you for your feedback. Report this reviewThank you, this review has been flagged.this first book in the trilogy is more of a fantasy than a fantasy romance, but the seeds are in place to germinate into something more. The relationship between the characters, Carin and Verek, doesn’t really grow all that much between the start of the story and the end. I would have liked to have seen a bit more evolution between them, but I will accept that that is still to come.
All throughout the book my mind was going mad with comparisons. First of all, I had Beauty and the Beast going through my head as Verek is portrayed as having a beastly personality and there is some emphasis placed on his “ruined hand” where he is missing a finger, and Carin is described as being a very bonny lass. Then we have an isolated mansion that’s fallen into decay, a small number (three) of servants, a huge library and Carin’s love of books – I think we have most of the ingredients there for Beauty and the Beast.
Some way into the book I started coming up with comparisons to Trudi Canvan’s Black Magician trilogy too. In those books Sonea is scared of Akkarin to begin with but slowly comes to know and accept him and even to love him.
After this, Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll is introduced. The first time the title was given and the opening read out, I didn’t make the connection as it has been probably more than 15 years since I read either Alice book. To be honest, I was very surprised that the author brought our world into the mix, as for me that puts this book precariously on that precipice between what makes a fantasy novel and what’s sci-fi. I was nevertheless interested in finding out where she would take things with the relationships between worlds.
The one thing that I was not particularly keen on was the long spiels of dialogue. I’m an adherent to the saying “less is more” when it comes to dialogue as I find that whenever characters start on what are pretty much monologues, it doesn’t sound natural unless the character is presented in that way, such as Myra, Lord Verek’s housekeeper. I enjoyed her character!
This being the first book in the trilogy, I find that I’m interested in seeing this through to the end and I will be reading the other two books as my reading schedule allows.
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Posted June 10, 2012
The Warlock has room for improvement, but I definitely enjoyed reading this book. Even if the Alice in Wonderland hook was a little overused, the way Lightfoot used it to develop her story--and Carin's background--was imaginative and unexpected. Personally, I would have preferred the story to omit the entire "romance" part (there IS some development if you really squint) but hey, they say that "love transcends all", right?
Very little, if any, profanity and will probably appeal mostly to girls 8th grade and up. You will like this book if you like fantasy and magic, and you will adore the series if you're comfortable with the age gap. If you're uncomfortable with the age difference, not to worry, the first book has very subtle developments that do not take away from the main story and can be easily missed. However, a warning in advance: the moment you finish this book, you WILL want to go on to the next!
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Posted March 4, 2013
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Drawn into the schemes of an angry wizard, teenager Carin must decipher the words of an alien book, follow the clues in a bewitched poem, conjure a dragon from a pool of magic--and tread carefully around a seductive but volatile, emotionally scarred sorcerer who can't seem to decide whether to love her or kill her. Book 1 of a series--the story continues in Waterspell Book 2: The Wysard.