Monday, January 5, 2009

Bewitching Season by Marissa Doyle


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Bewitching Season by Marissa Doyle

I thoroughly enjoyed this book as it is very much similar to the book 'Sorcery & Cecelia' by Sterverner & Wrede.

Persephone & Penelope Leland are twins and gifted in magic. This book mostly focuses on Persephone or Persey for short. Persey is definitely a more diligent study than her sister mostly thanks to their governess Miss Allardyce or Miss Ally as the girls call her. Preparing for their first season is harrowing work especially when Ally is kidnapped and Persey and Pen have no idea where she's been taken. To make matters more troublesome for Persey, Lord Lochinvar Seton, has grown into quite a distinguished and handsome young man - a fair bit different from the boy who would chase them with frogs in his hands when they were all very much younger.

Persey is a bit perplexed about how to deal with this handsome young man and gets rather tongue-tied when he is near. Add to that trying to save Ally, ruining the plot of Sir John who is trying to take regency over Princess Victoria, and not ruining their evening gowns and you've got a fairly complicated plot. There are a number of difficult problems for the Leland girls to overcome but they tackle them mostly head-on. It is a good growing up story as well as a lesson in that things don't always turn out the way you would think or expect them to. It is very uplifting and at times was downright humorous. I'm looking forward to the next Leland sisters book.

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