Pagan Eyes

Initiation, Book 1

By: Rayna Noire

Narrated by: Dollcie M. Webb

Being a teen witch is no sitcom with canned laugh tracks. It's especially hard when your crush's family is old school burn the witches at the stake type.

Leah decides not to mention her membership in the black hat society if it will score her points with Dylan. If only life was that easy.

Best friend Stella pulls her in to a tolerance project that tests Leah's beliefs by sending her hurtling through time where people really do burn witches. If that isn't enough, everyone back in times old and smelly recognize her as the local mean girl.

Fast thinking, luck, and whole lot of magick might get her out of her current dilemma; then again, it might not.

©2013 M Carole Wyatt Stamm (P)2016 M Carole Wyatt Stamm

Teen Magic

I did the audio of this story of witches,magic and learning what it means to grow up with this secret! All of the characters come alive with the wonderful narration this story has. Very well researched and when you hear the way the story is written plus putting voice to the story it is just brings everyone alive and I think with the narration it makes the story much more exciting as the story progresses and the way that the story is written. You go from the present to the past and It's done very well where you don't get confused at all! Whether you read the story yourself or the audio,don't miss such a fantastic story. This is a series,so off to the next book! Try both ways,read and then the audio,you will see what I mean.

Loved the story, but...

I had to sit on writing this review for a couple of days so I could formulate my thoughts on this book, the actual book is 4 stars, it’s a well-written story about Leah, a teenage girl who just so happens to be a witch. Leah has trouble embracing her Wiccan side, but when she’s thrust back in time, a time when witches were burned at the stake, her innate abilities save her in more ways than one. Sounds good, doesn’t it? What ruined the book for me was the narrator, she takes way too many pauses and I just found her delivery boring and I kept drifting off, I can’t imagine this audiobook keeping the attention of a young teen, not a good sign. Considering that I listened to a sample before requesting this audiobook, I had to go back and relisten to the sample, and yep it has the same problem, how did I overlook it? Purely because of the writing of Rayna Noire, the sample was so interesting I didn’t pay as much attention to the delivery by the narrator as I should have, but when you start listening long term the problem becomes glaringly obvious and I gave up on listening to it.

Luckily, Pagan Eyes is available on Kindle and I cared enough about finishing the story to buy and download the book and I highly recommend it, not only for teens but anyone who likes a good urban fantasy or paranormal book.

This audiobook was gifted to me exchange for an unbiased review!

Really enjoyed this new author and narrator. Looking forward to more to come

Really enjoyed this new offer and narrator. Looking forward to more to come. Great job.