magickware | November 26, 2009
If you are a fan of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer’s Night Dream, you’ll fall in love with this book. Even readers who are not fans of old Bill’s works will be drawn into he improbable world where Titania and Oberon are real beings. As the days draw close to Samhain, the door between the world of [...]
magickware | October 29, 2009
The story opens with an image of 3 ladies. The accompanying text says “Ladies of light and Ladies of darkness…” Both the text and imagery are things that a Pagan child can identify with. The end of the opening page has the line “this is a prayer for a blueberry girl.” While Pagans don’t specifically [...]
magickware | February 19, 2008
Priestess of the Forest: A Druid Journey by Ellen Evert Hopman $18.95 US $21.95 CAN ISBN13 978-0-7387-1262-8 360 pages Llewellyn Worldwide, Ltd. www.llewellyn.com A masterful written, fictional, love story based in third-century Ireland, this book animates the basic life style of the ancient Celts. Penned along the same lines as The Mists of Avalon by [...]
magickware | September 20, 2006
Book Of Doom by John Peel; Llewellyn Worldwide Book Ten of Diadem Worlds of Magic got off to a slow and rocky start. Since this was the first time I had read a book from this series, I was at a bit of a loss as to who the good guys and who the bad [...]
magickware | December 18, 2005
The Dragons’ Legacy by Trish Reynolds Pagan World Press (Dubsar House) This final book in the Seeker’s Quest trilogy brings together the heroes, heroines and villains from books one and two. The initial chapter opens to full fledge world war. The reader is immediately gripped with a sense of urgency as Thannon, the capital city [...]
magickware | November 18, 2005
The Demons of Drey by Trish Reynold, Pagan World Press 2005 (Fiction) When I picked up this book my first thought was “Wait a minute, what happened to Laurel and Mykal?” They are nowhere to be found in book two of the trilogy. Soon I was engrossed in the story and forgot all about them [...]
magickware | October 18, 2005
The Witch of Dragon Swan by Trish Reynold, Pagan World Press 2005 (Fiction) The world of The Witch of Dragon Swan is reminiscent of any world created by Marion Zimmer Bradley or Anne McCafferty. Magic and non-human folk populate the pages. Trish Reynolds immediately draws the reader into Laural’s world with the same seamless skill. [...]
magickware | September 18, 2003
A Question of Balance, The Doctor and the Witch Book One By Trish Reynolds; Pagan World Press (Dubsar House Publishing)The battle between good and evil, light and dark, rages supreme in this well written book. The Witch, a Priestess of light and The Doctor, a scientist of the paranormal, become entangled with each other and [...]
magickware | May 18, 2003
Circle of Five Dolores Stewart Ricco Kensington Books Fiction ©2003What a surprisingly delightful book! The book begins with a prologue complete with a gruesome child abduction and murder. After that the story focuses on five completely believable women. Despite their varying ages and backgrounds, the women have been drawn together to form a coven. The [...]