Dreams of You All Through My Head
The Red Ring —
Jen Frankel
Blood & Magic, book 2
2014’s
The
Red Ring is
the second volume in Jen Frankel’s Blood
& Magic
series. My review of book one, The Last Rite, is here.
In the previous volume, in order defeat a vicious warlock, almost-sixteen year old Maggie Stuart gave up her magic and now must live as a muggle. None of her former friends remember that she saved them from the warlock (or even that they had been her friends). Her loathsome mentor is pressuring her for sex. If she had any friends, she might cry on their shoulders … but the last three years has sent her decidedly into social reject territory.
Magic
is about to come back into her life in a big way.
Into the Sea of Waking Dreams
The Last Rite —
Jen Frankel
Blood & Magic, book 1
2012’s1 The Last Rite is the first volume in Jen Frankel’s Blood & Magic series.
Thirteen-year-old Maggie Stuart is an unwilling loner, unable to make friends at her Toronto school and unsure why that is so. Even the boy on whom she has a painful crush is barely aware of her. If he notices her at all, it’s to ask for academic help.
No worries, though, because the Burnt Man has taken a keen interest in young Maggie. He wants to be with her for ever and ever. Or until Maggie dies. Whichever comes first.
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