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Reckless Magic

By: Rachel Higginson
Narrated by: Bailey Carr
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Summary

"Twilight meets Harry Potter." Fans of magic, mystery and romance will fall in love with book number one in the Amazon Best-Selling Star-Crossed Series!

Sixteen-year-old Eden Matthews has been in and out of private schools for the last two years. She can't seem to stop herself from closing them down. Kingsley is her last chance to finish high school. Only Kingsley isn't like the other schools she's been to. The students are different. But, then again, so is she. After meeting Kiran Kendrick, the mysterious boy who seems to be the source of all her problems, she is suddenly in a world that feels more make-believe than reality.

When her best friend Lilly is taken away and Kiran's life is threatened, Eden finds herself right in the middle of an ancient war that is so much bigger than high school. She alone has to find a way to save her best friend and the boy who has captivated her heart.

Reckless Magic is an intricate story about adventure, magic and forbidden love. Eden Matthews is an unlikely heroine determined to save the world and be with her one, true love before it's too late.

©2011 Rachel Higginson (P)2016 Audible, Inc.

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Needs SERIOUS editing.

The premise is fine, it could be good, but sadly isn’t. Trying to be twilight in a Harry Potter setting and failing to hit either mark at all.

I was made uncomfortable by the misogyny of the prose - idiot girl needs men to save her continuously, none of whom deign to offer her any explanation as to why. There is a lack of emotional depth to any of the characters, and the lead male is completely unlikable, treating the lead female extraordinarily badly throughout. I realise this is a children’s book, but this is not a healthy model of relationships to be presenting to anyone.

A personal issue: There are some phrases that cropped up repeatedly that must be American vernacular, which I found grating:
‘On accident’ and ‘could care less’.

None of this has made me eager to listen to the next book, which is disappointing as I am a committed HP fan and enjoyed Twilight too.

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Yikes

I read a lot of books, bad and good, this is truly a struggle to get through. Parts of the story are not too bad, I don't think I'm the target audience, but it's unforgivable to say "could care less" instead of "couldn't care less". Did nobody proof read it?
Also it's "by accident" not "on accident"
Narrator's English accent is like Keanu Reeves's in Dracula.
Just yikes.

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Want a rubbish teenage romance /Harry Potter take off? Absolute rubbish!!!

I would never write a review without listening to/reading the whole book, so made myself do it while gardening. Dire- poor grammar, childish use of multiple adjectives, obsession appearance, hair and designer products, so much repeated narrative you can predict the next words- that it “made my blood boil.” Think it would give JK Rowling a good laugh or reason to start a lawsuit.
Two good things about the audiobook were- I got it for free and the story was so repetitive, if I got to the wrong part after a break, it didn’t matter!The worse thing about it is I can’t give it no stars.

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Pure drivel

Vapid plot
Badly written
Insipid characters
Awful reader
Dire accents
My advice? Choose something else.

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Very distracting accents

It seemed a promising start, but as others have commented the world and characters are just not developed.
The narrator's voice is pleasant enough but I was completely distracted by very inaccurate British and French accents at times, it would have been better to read without accent at all.

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I could be done for murder.

If there was ever a character that I wanted to strangle more I don't know who it was. If she has a few brain cells they are shorting out. The stereotypical stupid female write large. The story was not bad the writing was fairly good but the main character was awful.

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Not for me!

So rare for me not to finish a book, but I couldn't with this one. I'm so sorry to the author who has obviously worked hard on this book and this series, but I got perhaps halfway through and had to stop out of pure frustration.
There's only so much willful ignorance I can take, and the main character was unlikable and under developed. The supporting characters, including the main love interest, were somehow 2-dimensional while also being generally infuriating.
The plotline is held up with the idea that no one ever explains anything, but they then blame others for making mistakes. And this is just accepted, with perhaps a few mysterious warnings sprinkled in for foreshadowing.
I think I made it as far as the third permutation of- character spends time with 'Frankly Dislikable Love Interest', one or more people 'Get Mad', character 'Continues Seeing Love Interest' because no one feels the need to explain why they shouldn't, more people 'Get Mad' but there are no ramifications to explain... anything!
It was annoying and difficult to care about the overly stupid, unrealistic characters, which is a shame as I'd have invested in the whole series if only this first book could have been more likeable.

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a waste of listening time

This is a very difficult book to listen to, the story itself is bad enough but it is made worse by the poor language skills of the author and then compounded by the awful narration.

Don't waste your money or time.

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Couldn’t get past narrators voice

I choose this book to take me to a place of fantasy, sadly I could not enjoy the book as the narrator voice was not for me, a sweet insipid throughout with no change in tone .

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Good, easy listen

I found this easy to listen to and will read the others. Only had a few annoying points but it was worth the listen.

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