Author: Juliann Whicker
Title: Darkly Sweet; Dread Delight (Rosewood Academy for Witches and Mages #1-#2)
Language: English
Format: ebooks
No of pages: 359+465
Reading challenge: Give an author a second chance
Rating: 2 stars
Read: 27.05 - 02.06.2018
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Witch vs. Mage. Let the battle of the hexes begin.Penny Lane has eight months to find a suitable husband among the monstrous mages at Rosewood Academy or her mother will lose her home and her life. With only a weasel, her wits and a handful of lollipops, she sets out to tame one of those mages, but can she keep her heart from being bewitched by notoriously wicked, Drake Huntsman?
My main comment after reading the first two books in Juliann Whicker's book series Rosewood Academy for Witches and Mages back to back is, what the hell is going on and is there a secret first book somewhere? You know how tiresome all those repeating parts in book series get where the author rehashes the events in the previous books and what's the background information in the first place? Well, this series doesn't have it and I must admit that it leaves the reader, in this case me, completely baffled at times. You see, I've read two books by this author now. These books are the first two books in a series about a 17-year-old girl named Penny who has to find a husband before her 18th birthday. Why? I *think* it's because her mother gets killed otherwise ... bu why does her mother killed, I have no idea simply because Whicker does not tell the reader. Nor do I know how or why a young girl's marriage is supposed to save a human's life.
There's very little information about the world itself and most of it the reader has to put together themselves because Whicker simply omits that information about witches, mages, Darkside, Dayside, and whatever other information there is.
On the upside I felt that the series actually had promise to be a very entertaining read after I downloaded the first book for free, but I felt that I had to return the second book due to numerous mistakes. There were spelling mistakes, character's names being switched, the story itself being whimsical and taking us actually nowhere. The promise is definitely there, but maybe a bit more time editing?
While most of the story is told from Penny's POV, there are also some chapters from Drake's POV (that's the mage she finds herself falling for even though she doesn't really want to) and I understand that Drake cannot know everything about Penny so soon after they met, and vice versa, but I simply wished that Penny's character herself had the audacity to explain to the reader's about her background - what's her connection to Pitch and Poppy, why does she have to get married before she turns 18... you know, stuff like that that this character is supposed to know. After all, it's always 1st person POV.
All in all, I hoped for more and hope that Whicker gives her readers more information next time.
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