Book of Shadows

The Sweep Series, Book 1

By: Cate Tiernan

Narrated by: Julia Whelan

Length: 4 hrs and 56 mins

Publisher's summary

Something is happening to Morgan that she doesn’t understand. She sees things, feels things in a new way. She can do things normal people can’t do. Powerful things. Magical things. And it scares her.

She never chose to learn witchcraft, but she’s starting to wonder if witchcraft is choosing her.

Morgan and her best friend, Bree, are introduced to Wicca when a gorgeous senior named Cal invites them to join his new coven. Morgan falls for Cal immediately—and discovers that she has strong, inexplicable powers.

©2001 17th Street Productions, an Alloy company, and Gabrielle Charbonnet (P)2011 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Critic reviews

“This delectably dark [novel], first in the Sweep series, brings a supernatural spin to classic teen issues—popularity, romance, alienation and the search for self…While Tiernan’s ingredients are familiar, she stirs the cauldron with engaging, even cinematic, prose and sharply individuates her characters. She introduces the Wiccan material with some depth as well as with a skillful degree of ambiguity; readers will not know immediately whether or not the series embraces Wicca.” ( Publishers Weekly)

surprisingly good

I was very surprised at how good this book was. I didnt think I was going to like it much but gave it a shot and I really enjoyed it. on to book two. keep up the good work. and narrator did a great job also.

Loved it.

This book was great. It had words on each page. There was even a picture on the cover. Great value!

Loved it!

I love the realm of the unknown. And Morgan is taking her with us on this journey of discovering witches and everything there is to know about wicca.

Love this book!!

I only tried this book because it was part of the free section of my book club. And I am certainly glad I did!! I don’t normally enjoy young adult typically I like a little bit more of adult-based themes but this book is definitely worth a credit if you can’t get it for free too!! I would definitely say you have to go in with an open mind because it is young adult they are in high school so you can’t expect an adult theme. But I love how she enter twine‘s history and real life facts and items into the story!!! I am now on book 4 and I decided that I love them so much that I actually ordered myself the actual paperback book set!! I’ve only done this one other time when listening to audible books.

So glad I got this

This is not the type of book I would normally get. It was included in the audible membership so I had picked it up. After putting it off for a while, I finally tried listening to it. It was great. Simple story with little things happening. Great focus on the main character. The narrator really did a good job reading and putting you into the story.

Now, off to listen to the next book in the series.

awesome for teens

Loved it for my daughter! We will be doing the whole series! let's see what happens to Morgan!

Enjoyed

Enjoyed it! Got to a point quickly and the story flowed. Loved the narrator as well. I am curious to find out what happens next!

Nice find

Story was great and reading was great. I just happened upon this set and I can’t wait to continue.

really good 😊 five stars 👍🤩

it was cool because it was about witches and wicca. if you are looking for something about love and fantasy read this book

Love and deception inside the witches circle🤓

First in this series of a Wiccan coming of age story. It's interesting, if teenagery and angsty. It restoked my interest in Wicca and I liked the story. I'll probably read the next one!