They don't so much review books as market them, and it seems that they will say anything about a book to get a target audience to read it, rather than be accurate in their description or comparisons. Publisher's Weekly has become completely untrustworthy to me.

Small rant here, pardon (related to Anna's comment): *Also makes me think 10th grade, but whatever. Not a particularly good book, but it's attractively packaged-I do love the cheesy die-cut action-and I can see how some teens (especially Stolarz fans) might find the series addictive. We've got spells, we've got rituals, we've got a Protagonist who is Forced to Rebel against her Catholic Parents. Seriously, this one will send anti-HPers through the roof. Synopsis: It's Sweet Valley High** and The Craft, but with boy witches, too! They live two hours from NYC and they find the idea of a classmate having piercings and a tattoo SHOCKING. I mean, what? These kids don't have Buffy? I'm not saying that she didn't know what the symbol's history was-I'm saying that she had no associations whatsoever. I also thought it was odd that the main character had never seen a pentacle before. Peasant shirt-that makes me think hippie*. A peasant shirt and violet toenails = sophisticated? My best friend, Bree Warren, arrived in a peasant shirt and a long black skirt down to her violet toenails, and of course she looked beautiful and sophisticated.

Morgan's discovery of the book leads her into the past.First of all, (yet again) Why I Am Not A Fan of Clothing Descriptions in Most Modern Fiction: Inside, she finds her mother's Book of Shadows, a book witches used to write down new spells and things about themselves. Morgan accidentally walks into her mother's study. One day, Morgan and Cal, her current boyfriend and muirn beatha dan, are planning to go to the movies. The very next day, Morgan finds out she was adopted!! Morgan is devastated and it takes her a while to get over it. Bree and Raven, one of Bree's friends, begin their own coven and are planning to get revenge on Morgan. (a witch whose parents were both witches) She has also found her muirn beatha dan (predestined soul mate) and lost her best friend, Bree, over all of this. Now, she has found out she is one of the most powerful blood witches. It has been just a few weeks since their first circle (in book one). He showed Morgan and her friends the amazing art of Wiccan Witchcraft.

Morgan Rowlands was just a typical Catholic girl, until her world got turned upside down by Cal, the hot, new boy.

Sweep book of shadows