The Binding Witch and the Fortune TakerGrowing up homeschooled on the Renaissance Festival circuit is weird enough, but when you’re the daughter of a powerful binding witch who makes a living as a fortune teller, and your best friend is a middle-aged sari vendor, weird is relative. Fifteen-year-old Kate Roark desperately wants to be a witch but isn’t – yet. It’s not likely at her age until she … her age until she meets the Fortune Taker and gets a taste of unimaginable power – but at what cost?
Forced to choose between keeping stolen power or making her magic dreams come true, her ultimate decision throws her entire world into question.
Compulsively readable, The Binding Witch and the Fortune Taker is the first in the saga of The Kate Roark Magic Series. Dive into this paranormal fantasy today!
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Our heroine is ready to perform her coming of age ceremony, but things do not go as planned. Now there are more questions than answers.
This is a fantasy short story which looks like it is targeted at the young adult audience. I found the story to be very well written and definitely intriguing. I really liked our heroine and want to find our more about the setting and what it happening. As a short story, there was not a lot of details provided, but there was enough to wet my appetite. Overall it was an enjoyable and quick read and I am looking forward to more.
Highly recommended.
I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout for review purposes.
This is book 1 in the series and a short one at that that hooks you into wanting to continue the series. Starts off kind of slowly but soon your engrossed. Good character and storyline development. The narrator did a nice job. I prefer narrating at my speed of reading. For this book a speed of 1.5x was perfect. I received a free copy of this audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.
The Binding Witch and the Fortune Taker by Laura Rich is an awesome story that I have loved reading. This is book number one in this awesome start to a brand new series. I highly recommend this story to everyone who loves reading about mysteries and fantasy in thier stories.
I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.
Great Start & Audible Listen Magical & Enjoyable!
The Binding Witch and the Fortune Taker
The Kate Roark Magic Series, Book 1
By: Laura Rich
Narrated by: Sara Pauley
This is a great start to a new series. Laura Rich created an imaginative world with equally imaginative characters. She fit a lot of story into this short book, it is a nice introduction to who Kate Roark is and the dynamics of her world. She lives with her mother, a witch with magical powers but Kate does not have those powers. She is told it is because her father was human. Her Mom has a booth at The Renaissance Festival to earn money for bills, but there was only a little money to be made. Kate finds out there is another fortune teller doing business at the festival and goes to check it out. Only it turns out to be something else, a fortune taker, a taker of powers. This person is not a good person and with the help of her mothers friend Indira she seeks to put an end to her bad magic. Kate finds things out about herself, questioning who she really is. This is a fast paced story, there is drama, action, twists, mystery and some thrilling suspense. It brings you to the edge of your seat and has you thinking of what is happening and what is coming next. Laura Rich, thank you for this great story.
I listened to the Audible edition, Sara Pauley is a terrific narrator and voice performer. She brings these characters to life and sets the perfect tone for the story. She is an entertaining storyteller and a pleasure to listen to. Thank you for this great listen
The Binding Witch and the Fortune Taker was written by Laura Rich. The story takes us into the world of witches some of whom have powers and they don’t want to use them and one who has very little power and wishes that she did have powers to use.
This is a story about a young girl and her mother, her mother is a midwife for a group of witches, who chose not to practice their craft, and at the time of childbirth have the midwife bind the powers of the babies so they are not able to access their powers.
The midwife and her daughter tend to this task, the midwife has some powers, the daughter has no active powers that she is aware of except, heightened empathy that causes physical pain when she lets her guard down, and she actively works at keeping up the barriers and not letting anyone into her mind.
The story is easy to read, and the author, Laura Rich, has done a great job of creating a world that is realistic and colourful, and is believable. This girl gets caught up in a bit of a mystery and sets it upon herself to solve it. During this she discovers that things aren’t always as they seem, and she is a force to be reckoned with, and that she does indeed have powers, and solves the mystery with the help of her friend.
She accidentally creates a familiar, in the shape of a bird, perhaps not the choice that would be made if she had all the information she needed.
This book would be ideal for a teen through to a young adult. I did enjoy this book, it was an easy read and would recommend it.
I was gifted this book by the author through Voracious Readers Only, this did not affect my view of this story or my review.
For, 15 year old, Kate Roark is all she really wants to be a witch, after all her mother is a binding witch. She can hardly wait. Her life so far has consisted of being homeschooled and traveling with the Renaissance Fair. She finds out there is another fortune teller at the fair and goes to investigate. She is unprepared for what happens next.
This is the first part of the young adult fantasy/paranormal saga, the Kate Roark Magic Series. It is filled with interesting, unique and somewhat quirky characters that have both strength and weaknesses. The narrative describes the setting well and gives insight into how Kate is feeling, her motivations and the actions she takes. The storyline flows smoothly and is filled with magic, mystery, danger and the value of family. This story gives hints that there are secrets yet to be investigated and sets up the storylines for future books. I enjoyed the characters and the closeness of mother and daughter and hope to read more about these great characters,
I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.
Received this free for a review. The story is good and I enjoyed it, but it was short. It is a preview to a new series. Hope the series is as good.