Book Review: Fragile Magick (Descent Trilogy - Book 1)
Fragile Magick (Descent Trilogy – Book 1) by Heather Marie Adkins
5 stars
Category: YA
Note: Novella-length
Summary: Brigitta is a teen witch, daughter of a famously powerful witch father. He loves his daughter fiercely, though he does still mourn her mother who died in a car accident while Brigitta was still in the womb. When Brigitta returns home one day, she finds her father slumped over his work, non-responsive. The spidery black veins covering him show someone magically poisoned him. In a bid to save his life, her cousin sends her to go talk to a mysterious someone, which turns into a journey to the Underworld.
Comments: Usually I make my decision to read a book at three chapters. So, I toughed it out as Brigitta mooned over the barista at the local coffee shop, agonizing over the idea that if she did have a relationship with him that it wouldn’t last because she was a witch and would outlive him. And I toughed it out through her gossiping with her cousin Jerick who was flamboyantly gay and obsessed with fashion. And at that point I decided the book was just not something I wanted to continue with. So I read through a bunch of reviews and ran across a mention of a journey to the underworld and decided to stick around for the journey. I’ve liked other books by the author. And it’s worth it reading Brigitta’s journey into the Greek Underworld. I loved the vampire she meets along the way. I thought it was hilarious when he told her he wanted to be known by a tough name, but she kept calling him by his real name in her head. I loved how she kept bugging him with questions while he was trying to cultivate a tough, dangerous façade. One word of warning is, this is book 1 in a trilogy (according to the title) but there are no other books in the trilogy out. Considering this book was published in 2017, I’ve got my doubts on getting a continuation on this, which is a problem since it ends on a cliffhanger. It is by no means a full adventure since it raised a ton of questions and didn’t answer any of them and she didn’t even accomplish the thing she set out to do.
5 stars
Category: YA
Note: Novella-length
Summary: Brigitta is a teen witch, daughter of a famously powerful witch father. He loves his daughter fiercely, though he does still mourn her mother who died in a car accident while Brigitta was still in the womb. When Brigitta returns home one day, she finds her father slumped over his work, non-responsive. The spidery black veins covering him show someone magically poisoned him. In a bid to save his life, her cousin sends her to go talk to a mysterious someone, which turns into a journey to the Underworld.
Comments: Usually I make my decision to read a book at three chapters. So, I toughed it out as Brigitta mooned over the barista at the local coffee shop, agonizing over the idea that if she did have a relationship with him that it wouldn’t last because she was a witch and would outlive him. And I toughed it out through her gossiping with her cousin Jerick who was flamboyantly gay and obsessed with fashion. And at that point I decided the book was just not something I wanted to continue with. So I read through a bunch of reviews and ran across a mention of a journey to the underworld and decided to stick around for the journey. I’ve liked other books by the author. And it’s worth it reading Brigitta’s journey into the Greek Underworld. I loved the vampire she meets along the way. I thought it was hilarious when he told her he wanted to be known by a tough name, but she kept calling him by his real name in her head. I loved how she kept bugging him with questions while he was trying to cultivate a tough, dangerous façade. One word of warning is, this is book 1 in a trilogy (according to the title) but there are no other books in the trilogy out. Considering this book was published in 2017, I’ve got my doubts on getting a continuation on this, which is a problem since it ends on a cliffhanger. It is by no means a full adventure since it raised a ton of questions and didn’t answer any of them and she didn’t even accomplish the thing she set out to do.
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