Aaron Gorvine

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This book is short. Very Short. It made me feel like nothing is happening, until the last couple of pages. With again a great open ending! Lauren Barnholdt and Aaron Gorvine know where to end a story! It really makes you look forward to the next book.

Cam continues to be very annoying and BLOND. He reacts like he doesn’t understand anything about women and hurts Natalia by doing so. He also thinks that he’ll be able to save them all, by himself. Yeah, we could see how that went… What is it about men and having to be a hero? How about stepping back and let Natalia fix it, because she CAN?

Overall rating: 2 hearts. I read the other books in an omnibus. It improved the flow of the story and it felt more natural. If I read the other books one by one, I don’t think I would have been that enthusiastic about the story. Still, there’s a great ending and the authors dropped some sentences in the book that made me think about which interesting things could happen in the future! However the story is TOO short. The story started slowly and then you’re already at the end. I hope they also make an omnibus of the second season, which reads much finer!… (meer)

I bought this because it cost $5 on Nook. $5 for 7 books seemed like a decent deal. I'm still trying to decide whether or not I wasted my money. I read them all, so I guess that counts for something.

They were very simplistic, basically. I mean, it felt like reading the script to some tv show. Maybe it is, I don't know -- I mean, throughout the books it's referred to as "Season 1," so either that's a new trend in naming book series or it is in fact based off some cheesy witch/teen/romance tv program. I don't know. It wasn't great, but it wasn't awful. There's really nothing to praise or rant about it. It's just . . . meh.… (meer)

ISBN: 2940012182036
Publisher: Self/Indie
Pages: 222

The Witches Of Santa Anna by Lauren Barnholdt & Aaron Gorvine is the first season / first seven books in the series (Claimed, Tricked, Rumored, Hushed, Pursued, Enticed and Ruined).
This series is about Natalia Moore. Natalia Moore is the new girl at Santa Anna Prep. All she wanted was to fly under the radar. All that goes out of the window when Campbell Elliot goes out of his way to be nice to the new girl. Natalia likes Campbell but Raine Marsden the most popular girl at Santa Anna Prep has her eye on him. And she doesn't like competition.
Raine and her friends are no ordinary girls, they possess powers that people can only dream of, and no one will stand in the way of what they want.

The only downside to The Witches Of Santa Anna was that it was too short! I finished the first season and wanted to carry on reading about Natalia and what would happen after. It was well written and I flew through it!

Available at Amazon.co.uk.… (meer)