Once A Witch, by Carolyn MacCullough
Tamsin is supposed to be the most talented of all the witches in her family. However, her Talent never appears, and she instead craves the normal life of a teenager to match. Working in her family's book shop one day, she meets a man who asks her to find a clock lost in the late 1800s. Flattered by his attention, she agrees to do so, but in the process releases a deadly power.
Three strikes:
1. She smokes. I realize this is more of a rebellious thing to do, an 'I want to be an individual' kind of thing, but it's disgusting and not a good message to teens.
2. She drinks and goes to bars with a fake id. How is this ok? I don't care if she's a senior in high school, it still bothers me and again I feel like the last thing teens need is a bad example.
3. Time travel. And this is where people might get mad at me. I'm sorry, I just have an incredibly hard time wrapping my head around time travel. Typically I can't finish a book if it has it in it.
That said. I probably would have finished the book if even one of those strikes weren't there, but I think when reading it's a good way to ensure you don't read a book and walk away totally hating that you spent your time on it.
1 comments:
I agree with strikes 1 & 2. But 2 bothered me the most. I just keeping trying to figure out what was the point to it, and why you would want younger readers to read this. Honestly, I didn't like it, but I still really liked the book overall.
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