In the first in a series, Harper L Woods shows the power of
Blood Magic.
Willow knew that after her mom passed away, that the Coven would come for her,
she just thought that she would have more time. When the Vampires come to take
her to Hallow Grove University, Willow is shocked with the state of the place.
Willow was taught magic by her mother and respects the old ways of blood magic,
give and take, but the University has forsaken all that. The Secret run deep
within the Coven and none of them run deeper than that of the Headmaster Alaric
Grayson. With the University finally accepting new students after 50 years,
they cannot hide from their past and the massacre that forced them to shut in
the first place.
I was totally looking for a witchy read and this book fit the bill for me and I absolutely LOVED the magic system in this book and that Woods had the bad guys be a mixture of demon/vampires who needed witches in order to stay this side of Hell. The beginning really starts off fast paced and I was hooked once the magic system was introduced but a few chapters in things begin to slow and by the middle of the book felt a little bit choppy and the chapters/scenes did not flow great together. I think this was due to the fact that sometimes we don’t really know that Willow is in a vision or a dream and things feel like they come out of no where. The ending obviously picks up but the middle was a bit rough.
Willow as a character is really nothing new for this genre,
though I did enjoy how the Vampires underestimated her at the beginning and
thought she would be an easy grab. Willow's magic is pretty incredible and I
love how humble she is about where she get it from. She knows that she has to
give something to the Earth in order to receive magic back from it. It was cool
to see those areas that had been deprived for so long reach for the blood to
get back what had been taken. I'm a little confused on the whole generational
magic idea (I feel like it wasn’t explained well). I also found that Willow
came off as naive in quite a few parts of the book that i was not expecting as
the felt like they came out of nowhere and clashed with her personality.
Gray is a fine MMC, once again adds nothing new to the
genre, but he does have some good one liners in the books. If you like the gray
(pun intended) of MMC then you will like Gray as a character.
I was able to figure out one of the twist, but this book did
not go the way that I thought it would, and I will 100% be picking up the next
book in this series. I think most people will want to with the cliffhanger
ending.
Enjoy!!!
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