This is a fun and action packed middle grade read. If you have a reader who enjoys magic with a bit of mystery and action thrown in, this is great choice. I thought the protagonist is a strong female character - Cara Moone. Although I wish Cara came to accept other points of view earlier in the novel, she is spunky and a bit of a risk taker. All references to HP are in fun and the author offers another view of magic school. ( )

Spell sweeper is the perfect amalgamation of Harry Potter and Worst Witch. There’s the magic school, the secret magic the normal society can’t know about. There’s even the non-magical society that the magical call Bliss: as in ignorance is bliss! Cara is a young witch who happens to come from a bliss family and she can’t let anybody know that she’s magical. However at magic school she learns that she may be magical but just barely. Her magic is good enough to be the janitor. In this magical world all magic has repercussions and if these are not cleaned up it can cause disasters. So if you don’t have someone trained as a spell sweeper the Bliss are going to learn about magic one way or another. We follow Cara as she comes to term with being a Magical Occurrence Purger (aka MOP) and learns that her sister knows more than she ever let on. This book is both a great thriller, a magic story, and a family story. It gives you everything readers of Harry Potter want without letting a person who doesn’t believe in all people profit from her fandom. Spell Sweeper was so magical that I want more books in this land and I think movies and TV shows would be absolutely great. It seems like a series that could do well on Disney+ if they gave it a chance. I was so watch it and champion it. This is a magic people can believe in and this is the magic people should believe in. ( )

This was a voicegalley of Spell Sweeper, so I cannot comment on the narration of the finished product.

The book was great! I love that Spell Sweepers are a thing and that wizard's spells leave behind magic dust that needs to be cleaned properly or dastardly things could happen. I truly hope this will become a series, I would love to see more of Cara's adventures as a MOP.

Highly recommend. ( )