Thursday, December 3, 2020

Review: The Witches of Vegas by Mark Rosendorf @MarkRosendorf


The Witches of Vegas

by Mark Rosendorf

Published: August 5, 2020

Publisher: The Wild Rose Press

Genre: Young Adult, Vampires, Witches, Paranormal, Urban Fantasy

Blurb:


Where can Witches and their vampire mentor practice their powers without being discovered or persecuted?

By using their magic, the Witches of Vegas become the number one act performing on the Las Vegas Strip—a great achievement for them, but not so much for the magicians—who can't possibly keep pace.

Isis Rivera is the adopted fifteen-year old daughter of The Witches of Vegas. Zack Galloway is the teenage nephew and assistant to the last magician left in the city. Although they should be rivals, when Valeria, a four-hundred-year-old witch with a long-seeded grudge against humanity arrives in Sin-City, both teens act to bring their families together to stop the evil hag in her tracks.

But can the combined witches' powers and the ingenuity of the magicians be enough to stop Valeria from taking over the city and possibly the world?

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My Review:

Imagine being nine-years-old and strange things start to happen all around you and you have no idea what is going and you look around trying to figure out what is happening and you start to notice everyone looking at you like you are the devil or something and it frightens you to the core of your being.

You soon realize that the strange things that are happening are you, that you caused all those things to happen but you have no idea how or why. Now everyone is looking at you like they want to burn you alive like they did to those people in Salem in 1692. Well, this is just how I imagined Isis Rivera felt as it was happening to her.

Fast forward about six years, Isis is fifteen-years-old now and living with her adoptive family in Las Vegas. Isis was adopted by a coven of witches after that horrible time in her life and she has been living in Vegas ever since.

This coven of witches performs magic on the stages of Vegas. They use and practice their magic right out in the open in front of a crowd of humans. Isis has been taught by the coven to hide what she is, a witch. And what better way to stay hidden? By performing out in the open under the disguise of being a magician.

The witches have been warned by their vampire mentor that something big was coming and they must prepare for it by practicing their magic as much as possible. What is coming he has not deemed it important enough to tell them.

Then we meet Zack Galloway the teenage nephew of the last magician in Vegas. Zack’s uncle is teaching him all the tricks and trades of being a magician so that one day he will hopefully be as famous as Houdini himself.

One day Zack is sent to spy on the witches to learn all their secrets and find out as much as he can about them. When Zack meets Isis there is an instant attraction between the two.

Isis gets permission from her parents to attend one of Zack’s performance but when she doesn’t return home her family begins to worry about her as Isis has always been one to stay close to home as that is what she has been taught as it can be dangerous out in the world for a witch.

Isis has been taken by a four-hundred-year-old vampire. After Zack’s show, they go backstage to visit for a while and run into the vampire. The vampire throws Zack and his uncle out the door and won’t let them back in. Afraid for Isis’ life Zack runs to the witches to get their help to rescue Isis. Zack and Isis’s family must overcome their differences if they are to save Isis. Can they be friends long enough to save Isis? Or will the world as they know it is destroyed?

The Witches of Vegas was a fun little read. I love the concept of witches in Vegas and performing magic right in the open for everyone to see and no one knowing it is real.

I love stories about witches especially the Salem1692 witches. So with saying that I can’t wait for the next book in The Witches of Vegas series, Journey to New Salem. What will it be about? Will our two young friends Isis and Zack take a journey? What is this New Salem? Will Zack and Isis be back or will we be introduced to a whole new set of characters. Oh, I can’t wait.

I highly recommend The Witches of Vegas to all fans of witches and vampires. One-click your copy of The Witches of Vegas today to begin this magical journal!


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