Hedge Witch
Simon Kewin
Publication date: April 2014
Genres: Fantasy, Young Adult
Fifteen year-old Cait Weerd has no idea she’s being sought by the undain: sorcerous creatures of necromancy that feed off the spirit of the living. She doesn’t know the undain need her blood to survive. She doesn’t even know she’s a witch, descended from a long line of witches. Cait Weerd doesn’t know a lot, really, but all that’s about to change.
At Manchester Central Library she’s caught up in sudden, horrific violence. In the chaos she’s handed an old book that’s been hidden there and told to run, hide the book or destroy it. It contains all the secrets of the Undains’ existence. They and their human servants want to find that as much as they want Cait.
What’s more, she learns that the fate of two worlds is at stake here. Just what she needs. Along with definitely-not-a-boyfriend Danny, she has to decide what the hell to do. Run, fight or just hope it all goes away.
It’s only then she learns who she really is, along with the terrible truth of what the Undain have been doing in our world all this time …
My review:
I enjoyed the reading very much and I am looking forward to next book .There's magic aplenty here but also some old-fashioned strategizing.
But..... Here is the lesson .....Magic should never be used lightly using magic hat it's price- It is a wonderful and terrible gift and you should use it wisely if you use too much you can burn the magic out f you.
Cait lost her loved father in tender age , and since then her mother wasn't been the same, they become two strangers that living at the same house. On top of that, Cait thought that She is a total failure, going nowhere.
But at the same that she is getting a weird message - “They will hunt you! Once they find you, who you are and what you are, they will come! Day or night! You … here all along! All along!” - from a strange crazy beggar .It was too much for her and she turned and ran for the library. There she will meet her grandmother. Her grandmother was always pleased to see her. Always had time for her.
Underneath the Central Library of Manchester, a straight, concrete corridor, where a string of lights provide occasional clearings in the darkness, lead into the gloom of the vault! A strange place where old, wispy cobwebs, with no evidence of any actual spiders, hanging in the high corners and at a regular intervals were locked, metal doors.
“Book storage. We only have a small percentage of the volumes on display upstairs, you know. The rest are down here, carefully cataloged and protected....It's much bigger than the library upstairs. Not many people know this level is even here. It extends a long way under the streets. I like to think this part of the city is built on a foundation of books." Her grandma explained her.
In one corner a part of the shelf was sectioned off with strong metal grilling, a large padlock securing a hatchway in it. Several old books were inside, placed carefully onto the shelf so they weren't touching each other. “… why are these books locked away when they're in a room that's already locked? ”
.....“Oh they're valuable,” her gran said. “We sometimes look after books for other people. They have to be well protected for insurance. Some of them have been here for years.”
Suddenly there was a strength yellow green light and loud banging sounds and then a sharp smell of burn. from this moment everything had changed for Cait and the secrets surrounding her, and the introduction of Nox.
Nox, with his phalanx of bodyguards, their motorcycles gleamed silver in the bright sun, each wear a helmet so it was impossible to see their face, who love to hunt some low-life waster who barely knew what was going on, on his Harley-Davison V-Rod. He loved everything about this. The throb and roar of the bikes. The sweet smell of burning fuel. The thrill of the chase. and..the kill! He and his gang serving the Lich King on our world,
“Cait, listen to me. This thing is extremely dangerous and, I'm not going to lie to you, extremely frightening. It's come from another world in search of something. A book. And we must stop that from happening, at whatever cost. Do you understand?” In the fight on the protection of the book, one witch die and one got heart.. ..Cait grandma. The creature that can for the book run away.
By the orders of grandma, she reached inside Vault 42 (yes the same No. as in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, and In the Judaism, the Two Lettered Name" ascribed to God,and in the In Japanese, "shi ni" - four, two, that sound like the phrase, "unto death"... and so on.....) and took the book. A book that, etched into its leather a sketch of a skull and strange symbols. Cait put it under her arm, turned, and ran back to her gran.... "Take the book and destroy it. Burn it. Burn every page. Not a word must survive. When you've burned it, shred the ashes, too.” said her grandma.
And Cait succeeded to exit the library walking past Nox and head to her best friend Danny. Where they together tried to destroy the book, but couldn't.
Meanwhile, on another world, to Islagray, the Witches' Isle, in Andar , brought an unconscious witch..... “Her name is Fer. A hedge witch. She is uninjured. She worked some terrible magic and the pain threw her into this stupor. In time she will recover.”... said Ariane to Hellen Meggenwar, eldest of Islagray. She fought against pair of Undains and succeed to kill one, but she nearly killed herself with the magic she worked.
Under Islagray, five passageways, hewn from rock led off into the ground to an archive. Torches here and there showed many doorways in the walls of each passageway, leading to more caverns. Four of the five tunnels eventually disappeared around bends but the fifth, the central one, seemed to go straight down fore and in this spot the the two worlds where were connected, with the Manchester Library archive.
Undains - a creatures owning a rotting smell to them, are, sorcerous in nature, something that should never have lived. They are bone and feather lashed together in roughly the right shape and only able to move because of the death magic that filled them. Worse than the stench was the way the skeleton had been cut. Human bones sawn up and mixed with those of animals or some giant bird. They all created and ruled by Menhroth, the Lich King. This king rule the kingdom of Angere, that contain a big population of Undains that he himself created..
Johnny Electric - A wandering minstrel. A bard, a busker, a jongleur. A tall and thin, with a good–natured face, a wide smile. His hair was long and ragged. His eyes sparkle. He could have been a scarecrow taken from some sunny field and brought to life.
Ran - A dragonrider. Leather armor covered his torso, legs and arms. Tattoos deep blue, intricate whorls, cover his head and hands and would cover, his whole body. His hair was long and bound in a tightly knotted sheaf that reached half way down his back. In his left ear were one silver stud to denote his rank. Around his neck, a gold chain studded with string of small red gems, Penitence Stones. A shame burned in him. And the intense desire to spell out what the dragonriders had done all those years ago. As the king guard, they followed their orders and allowed Ilminion the necromancer, to work his necromancy. It is said that over a thousand people died within the chamber as Menhroth was ritually killed and brought back as undain. In this He offered Menhroth eternal life and inhuman power. Offered him all the powers of necromancy, too.
The book - Over long years, Ilminion perfected the Ritual of the Seven Ascensions, and described in the books. The necromancer's magic is all there in one book. How it works, how it may be broken. The book may be the only hope for stopping the Angere king, so they couldn't destroy it. By magic, Akbar, mancer of the failed Angere rebellion, split the book to two. One half were taken to Angere and the second they sent to Islagray. The copy of Angere disappeared and copy of Islagray has been sent,twenty years ago, to the other world.
Now the the witches of Islagray send a delegation to retrieve the book from our world. The delegation contain: Fer the young witch, Saleen another witch, Ran the dragon rider who want to compensate of the shame of his ancestors and Johny Electric that is actually a famous singer from our world.
On the other side in our world Cait, her Grandma, her mom, Danny tried to to prevent from the book to fall into the hands of Nox and his gang.
About the Author
Simon was born on the misty Isle of Man but now lives deep in the English countryside with his wife and two daughters.
He writes science fiction and fantasy as well as some stories that can’t make their minds up.
Find out more on his website at simonkewin.co.uk.Giveaway:
I will pick randomly one of the commentators for
one (1) ebook copy of Hedge Witch.
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