Mona Hanna

I received this book for an honest review. I have read the first book previously and this continued the story of Erica, her family and Gareth whom she has grown very close to now. It is now Erica and her families turn to make the trip to visit her mothers friend and their family. Their meeting is full of excitement though as James, one of Hallies twin sons, is kidnapped for a very brief period by another witch after which he starts to black out on occasions. James is scared and only confides in his brother and Erica who he thinks can help him. They find out his body is being taken over by this other witch for some reason. They need to find out how to stop it and why it is happening. A very good story that I enjoyed reading. And will continue to look for new books in this series.… (meer)

A couple of days ago, I found out that I had won the eBook ‘Witch Emerging’ by Mona Hanna. In the email, it said that it was the second book in the series, and that I could download the first book ‘High Witch’ for free from Smashwords. And so I did.

High Witch is a novella of approximately 82 pages, and revolves around Ariel and Brayden, and their battle against the bad Julius and his Nadia. Of course, since it’s only 82 pages, I expected nothing much to happen but I was quite surprised. Because a lot happened in this book.

I am going to start with the insta-love between the two main characters; Ariel and Brayden. They only met like two days before, and they’re already so in love with each other; enough to have sex (and they have that quite a lot in this book actually). Then, after only two weeks, Brayden wants to marry her. And they do eventually after four months, and on their wedding day Ariel tells him that she’s pregnant.

I’m not a big fan of romance in books, especially not if the characters seem to fall in love with each other right from the first moment they met. But this was just a bit weird, in my opinion. That is the reason that I didn’t like this book that much, because most of it was just them kissing, them having sex, and them telling each other how much they loved each other. Oh, and there’s also a bit of magic in it.

I liked the magic, because I am just a big fan of magic, so that was a plus. But other than that, I didn’t really enjoy this novella. I hope the second book is a bit more enjoyable (it’s about 125 pages, so that’s a plus)! I do love the cover though, it give me a magical feeling!… (meer)