Spellweaver (The Spellweaver Chronicles #1)
by C.J. Bridgeman
Published October 20th 2013 by Self-published
Book Description:
Book One of the Spellweaver Chronicles
Felicity Lucas never really knew her mother. Even though they had lived together for all the fourteen years that Felicity had been alive, they had barely even had a meaningful conversation. It was a relationship that was far from perfect.
So when her mother dies in a car crash and Felicity is sent to live with her estranged father in a deprived London borough, she is determined to move on. It isn't easy - content with her solitude, she's never had friends before, but the most popular girl in her new school won't leave her alone and she's forced to attend counselling. To make things worse, it's obvious that her father doesn't want her around.
It is only after she discovers a book of spells and is attacked by a strange boy who can conjure flames in his hands that she starts to realise that her mother was far more than what she seemed. She had a great many secrets, secrets that promise to thrust Felicity into a terrifying world of magic and straight into the path of beings who are determined to destroy her...
My Review:
I was given a free copy of the book from the author for my honest opinion.
Felicity, a fourteen year old girl has just lost her mother in a car accident and is going to have to move in with her father. Felicity had lived with her mother all of her life but she never really knew her mother. She barely knew anything at all about her because she was never home. Felicity spent a lot of time home alone and she never had any friends. Felicity was so use to being by herself most of the time that she actually preferred it. She was kind of nervous about moving in with her father because she didn't know him. He was never a part of her life although this was not his choice it was Felicity's mom's choice.
After Felicity moved with her father in a new town, house and school she realized it wasn't much different than living with her mom. I mean she didn't really know her either and didn't have a mother daughter relationship. At her new school she met this girl Holly who said they were BFF's. Felicity had never had a friend before much less a BFF so she had no idea how this thing was supposed to work. Besides she wasn't so sure that she wanted to have someone hanging around her all the time but she came to like having friends and having someone care about you. Holly's twin brother Jamie would hang out with them too on occasion and Felicity became to enjoy having both of them around.
She met another guy that was new at her school as well in an alley one night. This guy could make balls of fire with his hands. Felicity didn't understand or know what he was doing and was very frighten of him. She also didn't know if she was losing her mind or if she saw what she thought she saw. She didn't tell her new friends about this new guy, Oliver and what he did because she thought they would think she was crazy. Yeah well she wasn't so sure herself.
Holly and Jamie were twins but they had this weird kind of relationship. Their parents were divorced, Jamie lived with their father and Holly lived with their mother. At school Holly was a very popular person among the student body but Jamie was not. He was more of a nerd kind of fellow. Holly was not real nice to Jamie in school or at least she treated him a little different that she did when they were not in school. When they were not in school Holly and Jamie were pretty close and showed their true feelings for each other.
Jamie and Holly both cared a great deal for Jamie and would help her with any type of situation she got into which was not her fault. It wasn't her fault that someone was after her and wanted her dead. Why they wanted her to die she had no idea. She didn't know who or what these people were. All she knew was that she ended up fighting for her life and trying to stay alive with Holly and Jamie's help. Now that is what I would call a very good friend indeed.
I recommend Spellweaver to anyone who loves reading about magical elements and people with magical powers. I would like to have seen a relationship build between Felicity and Jamie which never happened and would have been fantastic oh well maybe in the next book they will get together and become a couple. But hey even without the love Spellweaver is still a very great read.
About the Author:
Claire Bridgeman is a secondary school English teacher living in Norwich, England, with her husband, their 1 year old daughter Pearl, their black fluffy cat and the fly infestation currently inhabiting the conservatory. She has written many books but it was only in 2013, at the age of 28, that she felt her work was good enough to be thrust upon the general public. She thinks it's an awful shame that there isn't more creative writing in the current education system of the UK and believes that every child should be encouraged to explore the wondrous depths of his or her imagination through an artistic medium.
Bridgeman loves all things fantasy. At the age of 16 she went to see The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring at the cinema 7 times. She recently replayed Neverwinter Nights: Hordes of the Underdark just to relive the Valen Shadowbreath romance. She wishes that Alistair from Dragon Age were a real person (so she could marry him). Her favourite book series is the His Dark Materials trilogy by Philip Pullman. She met him once. He was very nice.
Her debut novel is an amalgamation of all her favourite fantasy things - a pinch of Dungeons & Dragons, mix in some Buffy the Vampire Slayer (without the vampires) and top the whole thing off with a sprinkling of Harry Potter and there you have it - the Spellweaver Chronicles. Bridgeman hopes to tell human stories as much as fantasy ones, stories that deal with common, everyday themes and feelings like love, loss, grief, friendship and bullying. She wants to explore human emotion and experience using the fantasy genre, and with urban fantasy in particular, she feels that she has found the place to plant her stories and watch them grow.
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