{"id":1343,"date":"2010-01-22T10:05:38","date_gmt":"2010-01-22T10:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/wordpress\/?p=1343"},"modified":"2025-04-03T19:19:29","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T00:19:29","slug":"yafantasy_the_s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2010\/01\/yafantasy_the_s.html","title":{"rendered":"YA\/Fantasy: The Sweep Series (Books 1 – 15), by Cate Tiernan"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since I’ve already read the Twilight set<\/a> (yup, this one also<\/a>) and the Stackhouse books<\/a>, it seemed I should read these also.<\/p>\n

1: Book of Shadows
\n2: The Coven
\n3: Blood Witch
\n4: Dark Magick
\n5: Awakening
\n6: Spellbound
\n7: The Calling
\n8: Changeling
\n9: Strife
\n10: Seeker
\n11: Origins
\n12: Eclipse
\n13: Reckoning
\n14: Full Circle
\n15: Night’s Child<\/p>\n

This series is focused on wicca, with no vampires!, so there are good witches and bad witches and it’s primarily about a teenager girl named Morgan who discovered she’s a blood witch and then becomes entangled in the magical world through successive boyfriends.
\nThese were certainly entertaining and I really enjoyed the first 10 or so \/ I didn’t like some of the later ones as much, particularly the one from Hunter’s point of view…<\/p>\n

But they had some of those same problems that a “YA series rushed out” tends to have. Too repetitious \/ too much explaining or “reminding” the reader of things that the reader JUST read like 20 pages ago, or in the previous book. Do YA editors think kids can’t remember things? Because if they explained about being each other’s m\u00f9irn beatha d\u00e0n<\/em> (soul mate) one more fucking time, I was going to scream. [I enjoyed reading them anyway, but some of those things were really glaring, especially when you are reading so many of them one after the other.]<\/p>\n

If you like reading about magic, and you like having that “all caught up in your emotions” teenage feeling again, then you will probably enjoy these! And if you are sick of vampires – they are vampire-free!! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Since I’ve already read the Twilight set (yup, this one also) and the Stackhouse books, it seemed I should read these also. 1: Book of Shadows 2: The Coven 3: Blood Witch 4: Dark Magick 5: Awakening 6: Spellbound 7: … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-readin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1343"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1560,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1343\/revisions\/1560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}