2.75-3 stars.

This is one of my least favorite of the series. I read it once as a young teen but this is the first time I've read it in almost fifteen years, in contrast to the others of the series that I've raed multiple times, and I was surprised that I liked it a little more than my first reading.

Now the first half I was still unimpressed with. I, for some reason, tend to not be as interested in the witch stories as I am with vampires and werewolves and almost any other type of supernatural beings. So it took it me a while to get into it. However the last half was really good, I liked the aspect that Eric couldn't

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couldn't be affected much or at all by spells, it made for some interesting outcomes when someone tried to use a spell on him

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Also the ending was good, I liked that

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Thea and Eric wouldn't forget anything and that Blaise was behind them not forgetting.

Even though Blaise was kind of the "bad one" she still cared and loved Thea like a sister and showed that.

So in closing, first half is a struggle to get through, the last half though is much better.