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Saturday, September 26, 2009

Origins (Yes, More Sweep)

My Sweep obsession never ends. Oh, and update: I got Kerrie Ann obsessed with it too, and she's on like Number 9 already. So she's as obsessed, if not more, than I am.
Anyway, Sweep #11. Origins. This book has almost no Hunter or Morgan whatsoever in it. It also has no journal entries, which is another first. Turns out this book is about Rose MacEwan, a young witch in 1683 who is Morgan's great-great(etc.)-grandmother, on Ciaran's side. She started the dark wave that's still wiping out masses of witches in Morgan's time. Notice anything in specific about the year I mentioned? Well, in 1682, witch trials were ABUNDANT.
So it's not a good time to be in a coven... Rose and her mother have to attend Presbyterian church every Sunday and make magick in the woods to avoid suspicion. And one day, while out in the woods, Rose meets the guy of her dreams, her soul mate: Diarmuid. They fall in love and meet in the woods every day. Eventually, stupid Rose, who is only seventeen, GETS PREGNANT. Yeah. This is like a 300-year-old-magickal-soap opera. So she's *ahem* "with child," and Diarmuid is now avoiding her, and to make this book even better, Rose gets charged for witchcraft and is sentenced to the gallows.
Of course, then comes the dark wave.
This book actually had old-timer-witch-speak in it, like "thou" and "thee" and all that good stuff, so if you're looking for classic witchy literature this is where you can find it in 200-page-or-less form. I liked this book, although it kind of sucked that there were only about five pages of Hunter and Morgan. Oh, one more spoiler: Morgan DOES find out about Justine from the last book. *Dun dun duuunnnnnn!*

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