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Origins (Sweep #11)
by
Cate Tiernan
The chronicle of the deadly Woodbane conspiracy-as told by one of Morgan's own ancestors-has fallen into Hunter and Morgan's hands. Hunter and Morgan explore the world of these powerful witches, to find a way to vanquish them at last.
Paperback, 184 pages
Published
May 13th 2002
by Puffin
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I have to admit, I debated about the star rating of the book. I eventually realized that while I greatly enjoyed the books previous to this one & I did enjoy the ending, I just didn't really get all that into the story.
This entry into the series goes back to the origins of the dark wave. Hunter has returned from his trip to see his father & he's returned with the diary of Rose McEwan- the witch who created the dark wave. From her humble beginnings as a witch attempting to hide from the m...more
This entry into the series goes back to the origins of the dark wave. Hunter has returned from his trip to see his father & he's returned with the diary of Rose McEwan- the witch who created the dark wave. From her humble beginnings as a witch attempting to hide from the m...more
It was interesting to learn about the very beginning of Morgans past, about how it all started and how it all began for her. I loved the power of the book and the story line because although it did seem a little dull andboring in some places, it was also engaging and invoking in many ways. I found myself slipping back into the times, considering the possible dangers of witchcraft back then. What I loved was that there was clearly a lot of history put into the thought when writing this, but I als...more
This is a lame attempt to extend the series, painfully, by another book, into the past, so we get some more olden-times and Gaelic. boring.
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The first 2-3 books in this series are addictive, a fresh "modern-teen" POV in the tired genre of witches/kids with supernatural powers finding themselves (and the wonder of Wicca) among families/communities who "don't get it".
After #3, it goes downhill. There is no psychological development of the main characters (and the secondary characters are...more
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The first 2-3 books in this series are addictive, a fresh "modern-teen" POV in the tired genre of witches/kids with supernatural powers finding themselves (and the wonder of Wicca) among families/communities who "don't get it".
After #3, it goes downhill. There is no psychological development of the main characters (and the secondary characters are...more
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I'm both impressed and unimpressed by this installment in the series. Like its predecesor, Seeker, it too takes a major departure from the established format and narrative of the other books. Although the mythos Tiernan created/used for this series is based on many Neo-Pagan myths about the so-called Burning Times and proposed Wiccan historical traditions—all of which are wrong—the suspension of disbelief is pushed to the breaking-point in this story. The character Rose is not wholly believable...more
A Potent storyline; and despite it's diversion from Morgan's & Hunter's tale, this books still proves worthy of the Sweep collection. I hadn't expected it to be so good, as I prefer the first person being Morgan, however, I gained quite a surprise as I read it. This book unveils both innocence and guilt alike, from Rose's perspective. It is one of the most beautifully and potently crafted books of this series I've read yet. An intense, heart-wrenching tale of Morgan's ancestor living through...more
Die Geschichte der 'dark wave' ist das Hauptthema dieses Teils. Hunter findet auf seiner Reise nach Kanada ein Buch, in welchem diese genau beschrieben wird, geschrieben von einer Vorfahrin Morgans. Rose MacEwan ist eine 17-jährige Hexe, die sich verliebt und von diesem Kerl schwanger wird. Alles zu einer Zeit, als zum Einen durch Hexenjagd und zum Anderen durch die sozialen Ansichten, die Welt für junge Frauen kein sicherer Ort ist.
Ich finde diesen Band total klasse und die Idee sehr ausgefall...more
Ich finde diesen Band total klasse und die Idee sehr ausgefall...more
I totally loved this one. The speech seemed accurate and so romantic. The beauty of Rose's magic - especially her love spells. And the paranoia of all the witch trials. So accurate and fiercely scary. I loved the continuous tension.
And the beginning! I adore that Hunter was man enough to tell Morgan he kissed Justine. I like that Morgan didn't automatically succumb to forgiveness, that her stubbornness stayed true to her character.
Rose was a magnificently written character. I liked her power an...more
And the beginning! I adore that Hunter was man enough to tell Morgan he kissed Justine. I like that Morgan didn't automatically succumb to forgiveness, that her stubbornness stayed true to her character.
Rose was a magnificently written character. I liked her power an...more
Origins
This entry into the series goes back to the origins of the dark wave. Hunter has returned from his trip to see his father & he's returned with the diary of Rose the witch who created the dark wave. From her humble beginnings as a witch attempting to hide from the mass hysteria of the Salem witch trials to her inevitable fall into darkness, the book chronicles her decent into evil. I was quite surprised as I read. The book unveils both innocence and guilt alike, from Rose's perspective...more
This entry into the series goes back to the origins of the dark wave. Hunter has returned from his trip to see his father & he's returned with the diary of Rose the witch who created the dark wave. From her humble beginnings as a witch attempting to hide from the mass hysteria of the Salem witch trials to her inevitable fall into darkness, the book chronicles her decent into evil. I was quite surprised as I read. The book unveils both innocence and guilt alike, from Rose's perspective...more
At Hunter's arrival, Morgan is thrilled yet curious on what happened while he was away. But, she is surprised of the book that he brought with him. It was Rose McEwan's Book of Shadows. Her descendant. From her father's side.
Set in 1682, we follow through Rose's journey, and how she came to be the creator of the dark wave.
While I was reading it, I completely immersed myself in the book, so I was feeling what Rose felt, and not my own. Just when they it went back to Morgan's point of view, did I...more
Set in 1682, we follow through Rose's journey, and how she came to be the creator of the dark wave.
While I was reading it, I completely immersed myself in the book, so I was feeling what Rose felt, and not my own. Just when they it went back to Morgan's point of view, did I...more
I love this flashback to how the dark wave began. Rose's life is actually pretty understandable: young girl newly fallen in love, toying on the edge of darkness (with the crystal, dolls, etc), not *intentionally* being evil (yet). And how things were just wrenched out of her control and she wanted revenge but it got too far.
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This is the scariest one so far. I don't know what I would have done had I been in Rose's place. Seeing the result of the dark wave really was extreme and horrible. However, I can not judge Rose harshly for what happen to her has never happen to me. She was denied by the one she loved and basically reprimended in the most self humiliating way ever. I understand her fury and con not find a way to blame her for calling upon the dark wave. No one really knows what they whould do in a m...more
This is the scariest one so far. I don't know what I would have done had I been in Rose's place. Seeing the result of the dark wave really was extreme and horrible. However, I can not judge Rose harshly for what happen to her has never happen to me. She was denied by the one she loved and basically reprimended in the most self humiliating way ever. I understand her fury and con not find a way to blame her for calling upon the dark wave. No one really knows what they whould do in a m...more
Warning: This review contains spoiler for the first ten books in the Sweep series!
The year is 1682, the country is Scotland, and this is the story of Rose MacEwan, Morgan's ancestor - the witch who created dark wave.
Rose MacEwan, daughter of the high priestess Síle, is a Wodebayne (Woodbane). In fear of getting tried as a witch, every coven member goes to the local church every Sunday and tries everything to blend in. As if that wasn't enough, the tension between the Seven Great Clans -more spec...more
The year is 1682, the country is Scotland, and this is the story of Rose MacEwan, Morgan's ancestor - the witch who created dark wave.
Rose MacEwan, daughter of the high priestess Síle, is a Wodebayne (Woodbane). In fear of getting tried as a witch, every coven member goes to the local church every Sunday and tries everything to blend in. As if that wasn't enough, the tension between the Seven Great Clans -more spec...more
~3(maybe ~3.5)/5
This is a really good series. It's long, and I started it a long time ago, but each book's usually pretty short books, and they (usually) aren't hard to get through, either. Lately, though...
Usually we get to read about Morgan, and Hunter. The last book focused quite a bit on Hunter, as he went to visit his father and met a not-so-good lady. This book starts with Hunter returning, and telling Morgan about what happened. What happened, sucked, and I do mostly blame the woman, but...more
This is a really good series. It's long, and I started it a long time ago, but each book's usually pretty short books, and they (usually) aren't hard to get through, either. Lately, though...
Usually we get to read about Morgan, and Hunter. The last book focused quite a bit on Hunter, as he went to visit his father and met a not-so-good lady. This book starts with Hunter returning, and telling Morgan about what happened. What happened, sucked, and I do mostly blame the woman, but...more
In 1682 Rose MacEwan lived in dangerous times, more so because she was a witch. The daughter of her coven's High Priestess, Rose always felt that she was being held back from her magick by her mother. So when Rose meets the mischevious Diarmuid in the woods, she seizes the opportunity to work greater more powerful magick. But Rose's choices have consequences even she could never have predicted.
This is the eleventh book in the Wicca series (which began with Book of Shadows) and again is from a pe...more
This is the eleventh book in the Wicca series (which began with Book of Shadows) and again is from a pe...more
In this exciting book, Morgan finds a book diary from her ancestor: and sits down with her new boyfriend, and Council Meember, Hunter, to read it. She discovers a whole new part of herself when reading about this girl. She was a witch, whom with her friend and mother, lived in a non-witch village. She lives in secrecy of her religion, pretening to be a Christian so that she wont be burned at the stake. When she's out picking herbs one day, she comes across a boy: to whom she immediately likes. A...more
When this book started I was expecting it to revert to telling the story from Morgan's point of view .... Which it did for about a page and half before we go back in time with an old relative's book of shadows. Whilst I was disappointed that this was the second book in a row after 9 with the main group I did find the historical information fascinating and so went back to the 4 stars that has dropped to 3 with book 10. I am really hoping to a return to the original format with book 12 though. V""...more
This was the one Sweep book I pretty much skipped over. I don't personally think it should have been part of the series, but then again, the books don't exactly leave you hanging. I think this can be said for the entire series - they don't flow 100%. But this one? Gah. I read the first few pages, skipped to the end...sure, it's nice to know where the dark wave came from. But I could have lived without it and would have preferred to have more of the story between Hunter and Morgan.
This book is basically the story of one of Morgan's ancestors, Rose, who just happens to be the person who created the Dark Wave. It is set in the 1600's during the time of the witch hunts. Rose falls in love with a young witch who is not of her clan. I don't want to give anything away, but of course things go awry and Rose is accused of witchcraft.
This was a very interesting book. I enjoyed the new characters and the historical setting. It also advances the story because now Morgan and Hunter k...more
This was a very interesting book. I enjoyed the new characters and the historical setting. It also advances the story because now Morgan and Hunter k...more
I was not so thrilled with this one. It is the story of Rose MacEwan, an ancestor of Morgan's father. It was basically a coming of age story told in the first person point of view. Rose felt that her high-priestess mother was envious of her powers and was holding her back. When she fell in love with a boy from another clan and was betrayed, she turned to dark magick. This book tells of the origins of the dark wave that has decimated various clans through the years. I found it rather childish (fo...more
With all the great books for teens out there now about the paranormal and witchcraft, this is a forgettable one. In this book, the eleventh one in the Sweep series, Hunter and Morgan find the diary of a witch ancestor that tells the story of forbidden love and dark witchcraft in 1682. The characters are not particularly interesting and the story is familiar and poorly written, so unless readers in your library are reading the other books in the series and need the next one, this is not a necessa...more
Nov 19, 2007
Phung Nguyen
rated it
5 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
anyone that likes a bit of a history and shock
This book is one of the sweep series that I have been reading for the past year and cannot stop reading. Unfortunately there are only 15 books so I have 4 left to go! This book unlocks the secrets to a dark force known as the "dark wave" which destroys anything that the summoner visualizes. Morgan still learning her undiscovered magick, is to find the dark waves secret and put it to a stop before it comes after her coven. This book is about a book that was written by Rose McEwan, she was the fir...more
First i tought about giving only 1 star to this book! The character are not really interesting and you know they won't last so you don't really give interestin them. The only reason I give 2 star is because the idea of knowing the origin of the dark wave is good. Bu t I really think that it could have been done in some chapter of a book, not in a entire book consacred to that.
This book "origins" in the sweep series by Cate Ternam was my favorite. It was in the view of a person way back in time before anything in the previous books. It was my favorite and the story that was told was most interesting. I found it very surprising and suspenseful. It was full of love and betrayal. I LOVED IT.
Devo ammettere che la Tiernan mi sta stupendo, volume dopo volume.
L'idea di raccontare la storia di un'antenata di Morgan e relegare quindi i protagonisti della saga ai soli prologo ed epilogo si è rivelata una mossa vincente.
Perchè ha saputo raccontare una storia altrettanto affascinante, e non mi ha fatto sentire la mancanza di Morgan e Hunter neanche un po' (oddio sarà grave? forse mi sono annoiata di loro?? ...può essere!)
Uniche annotazioni: con la nuova veste editoriale, è cambiata anche...more
L'idea di raccontare la storia di un'antenata di Morgan e relegare quindi i protagonisti della saga ai soli prologo ed epilogo si è rivelata una mossa vincente.
Perchè ha saputo raccontare una storia altrettanto affascinante, e non mi ha fatto sentire la mancanza di Morgan e Hunter neanche un po' (oddio sarà grave? forse mi sono annoiata di loro?? ...può essere!)
Uniche annotazioni: con la nuova veste editoriale, è cambiata anche...more
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It was okay - I had to read it (and have not read any of the others in the series) for my book review group - I will probably put it on paperbackswap.com. It explains the origins of the dark wave of spells in Tiernan's Sweep series. It was a story within a story so it can stand alone.
Enfin fini!
Si ce n'était que de moi, je n'aurai pas lu le 11e tome. Mais force d'admettre que c'est bien de savoir le passé, les ancêtres des sorcières, la première vague sombre (Dark Wave) qui s'est abattue, les antécédents des clans, etc. J'ai trouvé que le 3/4 du livre était long, l'amour kitch entre Rose et l'autre là.. euh.. Diarmuid? Les petits sortilèges d'amour pour Kyra et Falkner... Et la maudite fatiguante de Siobhan et son long cou de cygne... Mais vers la fin, enfin un peu d'action...more
Si ce n'était que de moi, je n'aurai pas lu le 11e tome. Mais force d'admettre que c'est bien de savoir le passé, les ancêtres des sorcières, la première vague sombre (Dark Wave) qui s'est abattue, les antécédents des clans, etc. J'ai trouvé que le 3/4 du livre était long, l'amour kitch entre Rose et l'autre là.. euh.. Diarmuid? Les petits sortilèges d'amour pour Kyra et Falkner... Et la maudite fatiguante de Siobhan et son long cou de cygne... Mais vers la fin, enfin un peu d'action...more
Origins is a great addition to the Sweep series. It holds the power and enchantments of the other novels, but it also sheds light on the creation of the dark wave, along with how some witches would succumb to the temptation of the dark aspects of magic. The bittersweet love of Rose MacEwan and the injustices and prejudices against her clan will entrap you as she tells you her story.
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