{"id":8877,"date":"2017-07-25T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-25T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=8877"},"modified":"2017-07-07T11:06:16","modified_gmt":"2017-07-07T16:06:16","slug":"spells-dangers-for-apprentice-witch-by-james-nicol-book-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=8877","title":{"rendered":"Spells &#038; dangers for Apprentice Witch, by James Nicol (book review)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"8879\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?attachment_id=8879\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Apprentice-Witch-665x1024.jpg?fit=665%2C1024&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"665,1024\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Apprentice-Witch-665&amp;#215;1024\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Apprentice-Witch-665x1024.jpg?fit=665%2C1024&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Apprentice-Witch-665x1024.jpg?resize=195%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"book cover of Apprentice Witch by James Nicol published by Chicken House Books | recommended on BooksYALove.com\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-8879\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Apprentice-Witch-665x1024.jpg?resize=195%2C300&amp;ssl=1 195w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Apprentice-Witch-665x1024.jpg?resize=665%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 665w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 195px) 100vw, 195px\" \/>Didn&#8217;t pass her witch assessment,<br \/>\nSent to a town near the Great Wood&#8217;s untamed magic,<br \/>\nShe knows she can do all the right spells&#8230; right?<\/p>\n<p>After learning <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/scholastic-audiobooks\/the-apprentice-witch-by-james-nicol-audiobook-excerpt\" target=\"_blank\">every glyph and its spell-powers<\/a> from her grandmother, Arianwyn was sure the assessment machine would pass her as a witch on the first try, but no&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>She didn&#8217;t expect to meet a friendly young man at the Civil Witchcraft Authority office or make a best friend right away in her assigned town &#8211; or that her archrival from witch school would arrive in that tiny town, either!<\/p>\n<p>Happy US and Canadian book birthday to <em>The Apprentice Witch<\/em>!  Read the first chapters <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chickenhousebooks.com\/books\/apprentice-witch\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> free, courtesy of the publisher.  And, yes, there is a sequel on its way!<\/p>\n<p>How do you work with that so-annoying, know-it-all, klutzy co-worker?<br \/>\n**kmm<\/p>\n<p><strong>Book info<\/strong>:\u00a0The Apprentice Witch \/ James Nicol. Chicken House Books, 2017. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jamesnicolbooks.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">author site<\/a>]\u00a0 [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.chickenhousebooks.com\/books\/apprentice-witch\/\" target=\"_blank\">publisher site<\/a>]\u00a0 [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=naDcHb-duKs\" target=\"_blank\">book trailer<\/a>] Review copy and cover image courtesy of the publisher.<\/p>\n<p><strong>My book talk<\/strong>: Posted to a remote town as a lowly apprentice witch during wartime, Arianwyn must keep Lull safe from the Great Wood&#8217;s dangerous magical creatures and cope with a snobby classmate&#8217;s arrival, all while dreading her re-evaluation for full witch status.<\/p>\n<p>As she and new friend Salle make the long-deserted Spellorium ready for charm-making and witchly duties, Arianwyn finds papers from the town&#8217;s last witch who vanished mysteriously, years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Snotlings and the terrible hex, an odd blue feyling and the breathtaking moon hare &#8211; magical creatures from pesky to perilous fill her catalog as the young teen defends Lull.<\/p>\n<p>Will she ever get every spell correct on the very first try?<br \/>\nCan she unravel the dark glyph haunting her sleep?<br \/>\nWhat&#8217;s wrong with rival Gimma&#8217;s spellcrafting?<\/p>\n<p>Arianwyn is growing in confidence and power, but the perils of the Great Wood are also! First in series.  (One of 6,000 books recommended on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abookandahug.com\" target=\"_blank\">www.abookandahug.com<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Didn&#8217;t pass her witch assessment, Sent to a town near the Great Wood&#8217;s untamed magic, She knows she can do all the right spells&#8230; right? After learning every glyph and its spell-powers from her grandmother, Arianwyn was sure the assessment machine would pass her as a witch on the first try, but no&#8230; She didn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8879,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[77,19,30,41],"tags":[90,22,7,4,11,45,20,16,18,44,43,38,49,31,15,9,21,66,35,33,3,6],"class_list":["post-8877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fantasy","category-fiction","category-legends","category-paranormal","tag-abandonment","tag-behavior","tag-beliefs","tag-belonging","tag-communication","tag-competition","tag-conflict","tag-determination","tag-family","tag-friendship","tag-growing-up","tag-magic","tag-memories","tag-non-us-author","tag-relationships","tag-school","tag-self-image","tag-series","tag-surprises","tag-survival","tag-teens","tag-travel"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Apprentice-Witch-665x1024.jpg?fit=665%2C1024&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8877"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8888,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8877\/revisions\/8888"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}