Steadfast

Spellcaster, Book 2

De: Claudia Gray

Narrado por: Khristine Hvam

Captive's Sound is still standing...but a new evil is rising.

Nadia saved the town of Captive's Sound from a fiery apocalypse and vanquished the Sorceress Elizabeth...or so she thought. But a crack into the underworld opened, and a greater evil is breaking through.

As Nadia's Steadfast, her boyfriend, Mateo, should make her magic stronger, but the curse that torments him has only intensified. And try as she might, Nadia can't break the cruel spell on her best friend, Verlaine, or stop a mysterious illness that's striking people down one by one.

Nadia must gather all her strength to protect the ones she loves. But she is more vulnerable than ever to a darker power. The One Beneath has begun to call Nadia's name, and Nadia must decide how close she's willing to get to the darkness....before she can't escape.

©2014 Amy Vincent (P)2014 HarperCollins Publishers

Love this series!

If you could sum up Steadfast in three words, what would they be?

Unpredictable, different, exciting.

What did you like best about this story?

I love stories of magic and such, but this one is such a fresh take on it. I love that I honestly did not have any clue what was going to happen and I'm pretty good at calling things beforehand.

What about Khristine Hvam’s performance did you like?

Such a beautiful voice! She was great at differentiating between the voices of the characters without sounding strange or silly. I really did thoroughly enjoy this!

it was a little dark for me

it was a little drake for me. I thought the writing was good as well as the performance

The story descends

We slide toward apocalypse, including an awfully slow moving CDC epidemic response team. Nadia's clear thinking shrinks chapter by chapter. And as average American high school students, she and her group face world-threatening catastrophe without even seeking any help from anyone beyond their grade in school; except from the sorceress and demon they are trying to outwit. There is plenty of lampshading in this story (Harry Potter references, imagined newspaper articles) as it spirals down; not enough to turn it into a comedy, though. So, I check out. Waiter! Bill please. Sadly, already bought book 3.