The Line

Witching Savannah, Book 1

De: J. D. Horn

Narrado por: Shannon McManus

Savannah is considered a Southern treasure, a city of beauty with a rich, colorful past. Some might even call it magical....

To the uninitiated, Savannah shows only her bright face and genteel manner. Those who know her well, though, can see beyond her colonial trappings and small-city charm to a world where witchcraft is respected, Hoodoo is feared, and spirits linger. Mercy Taylor is all too familiar with the supernatural side of Savannah, being a member of the most powerful family of witches in the South.

Despite being powerless herself, of course.

Having grown up without magic of her own, in the shadow of her talented and charismatic twin sister, Mercy has always thought herself content. But when a series of mishaps - culminating in the death of the Taylor matriarch - leaves a vacuum in the mystical underpinnings of Savannah, she finds herself thrust into a mystery that could shake her family apart...and unleash a darkness the line of Taylor witches has been keeping at bay for generations.

In The Line, the first book of the Witching Savannah series, J. D. Horn weaves magic, romance, and betrayal into a captivating Southern Gothic fantasy with a contemporary flair.

©2013 Brilliance Audio, all rights reserved.; 2014 J. D. Horn

A good start but stumbles a bit.

What did you love best about The Line?

The plot was interesting, limited info dumping to a minimum and didn't give the plot immediately away within the first chapter.

What was the most interesting aspect of this story? The least interesting?

The main character Mercy was the most interesting. She seemed fairly fleshed out as well as Oliver.

The entire love quadrangle. If Mercy was younger (13-15) I cold maybe see this as an important plot element but it just bogged things down.

What did you like about the performance? What did you dislike?

The Voice Actress could convey emotion well and fitted it to what was happening in the narration.

I didn't like that there were only a few unique voices and sometimes the VA mixed up which character was speaking and used a different voice.

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

Yes

Any additional comments?

Overall it's not a bad beginning to a series. The novel suffers from a few issues, like having a too neatly tied up ending. I wish Jackson, for example, could have been a great loose end.

The whole love plot was strange and detracted from the plot for me.

MUCH better than Sookie Stackhouse, etc

I really put of reading this book because it so often gets compared to Sookie Stackhouse and Discovery of Witches crap. So glad I finally gave it a shot. This was a much more coherent story with a solid plot. While there are still a few details that don't seem to add up, it was still far superior writing and thus far more enjoyable than those books to which it is often compared.

Also, it was nice that this book was not a romance. The focus is firmly on the intrigue among the witches and the mystery of who killed Aunt Ginny. While some things are obvious from the beginning, there is still room for the author to surprise the reader here and there.

I look forward to the next book.

Enjoyable read!

Lately Amazon has suggested books I normally wouldn't think of. This was one of them. I really enjoyed this and purchased the audio to go along with it so I could listen on my daily commute. I enjoyed the young heroine of the story. So much that I'm going to look into getting the next book in the series. The audio narrator did a great job too!

loved it

Thos was a page Turner. I couldn't put out down. I loved loved loved it

Great way to free your mind in Rush Hour Traffic

i really enjoyed all the twist and turns. it had me on the edge of my seat.