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I must admit from the get-go that I didn’t like Curse as much as Witch. I thought that I would like it better because it seemed like it was going to be more about the present than the past … not so  much.

I was definitely fooled. Just because there wasn’t a lot of italics, doesn’t mean we weren’t delving into the past. Just like in the first book, we jumped from the present to the past as Holly and Amanda try once again to take over the Deveraux clan.

But this time some new characters are thrown into the midst and Nicole isn’t with her coven … she’s not even on the same continent.

There were a few things I liked about this book. I thought it was super cool that they had invisibility cloaks. I thought that was a cool feature in the Harry Potter series. Speaking of Harry Potter, if you think these books are going to be the same because they’re about witches, WRONG. This is more of the dark magic. In Harry Potter, there’s fun and silly spells. Here, all spells deal with fighting and supreme mastery.

I also like how quickly the girls were able to pick up the magic. It was only 3 months since they learned they were witches and they’re already becoming masters of their skill. I mean, after 3 months without anyone to teach you, how do you know about rites and rituals?

Once again, I have my favorite poem from the beginning of the chapters. This is from Dead Moon:

In the night we dance and laugh
As our foes taste our wrath
Death we are and death we bring
Delivered on a falcon’s wing

We dance upon each dead man’s corpse
Laugh and shout till we grow hoarse
We treasure all our enemies’ moans
As lady hawk talons crash their bones

This book ended with suspense like the last, so I’m still wanting a little more, but it really didn’t do much for me. I was lost most of the time through the book flipping back and forth trying to remember which century and which continent we were on. I guess I liked all the italics in the first book.

I give Curse 2 bookmarks.