Firespell (The Dark Elite, #1) in SOS: Serious Overload of Series

Nov 05, 2010 Sandra rated it really liked it

Shelves: own, pnr-uf, chloe-neill, ya

What a pleasant surprise is this YA book. Sure we had high school kids, school, homework, a slight love interest schoolgirl-wise, but we had intelligent writing, focus, kick-ass goodies and baddies and no-one presuming instant knowledge of magic power. No teenage angst to drive the story.

Our heroine Lily is sent to St Sophias School when her parents go on sabbatical to Germany, she becomes BFF with Scout and learns about Magic.

There is more going on though than the baddies, called the Reapers, ...more

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Oct 07, 2010 Amelia rated it liked it

Shelves: young-adult, paranormal, library

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Nov 15, 2009 Larissa rated it liked it

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Lily Parker lived a calm and peaceful life with her parents in Upstate New York. When their work takes them for a year-long sabbatical in Germany and Lily is dumped in an all-girls boarding school in Chicago, Lily’s life changes more than she thought possible. Her new best friend has a secret and finding it out might be not be as fun as she thought.

Firespell is the first book in Chloe Neill’s Young Adult series. I have ...more

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Feb 11, 2010 Kay rated it it was amazing

Shelves: young-adult, ya-fantasy-paranormal

WOW!

I picked up Firespell for the Debut YA Author Challenge - and boy am I glad I did! I had heard of Chloe Neill's Adult Series, but nothing about them seemed to pique my interest. So I thought I'd test out her YA debut before I dove into the Chicagoland books.

Unlike a lot of YA out there right now, Firespell is based more around Lily and her new universe - rather than around her relationship with a boy. Although there is certainly a love interest (and I think I am right in foreseeing a future ...more

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Nov 27, 2010 Mariya rated it did not like it

Shelves: young-adult, dropped-series

So I think I was just expecting too much from this book from the start and I was excited to start it but from the beginning it was slow and it stayed slow. I just couldn't get into this book. I felt bored all the way through. I don't really like the characters. I felt like the characters were boring and I just don't know. I just think from first reading the Chicagoland Vampire Series which I was hooked immediately that my expectations were too high. I felt like this story was too predictable. Al ...more

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