Star Cursed by Jessica Spotswood - ADVISABLE

Spotswood, Jessica  Star Cursed, 367 pgs.  G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 2013.  $17.99  Content: Language: PG-13 (10 swears); Mature Content: PG-13; Violence: PG-13.  

Cate Cahill is a witch living at a convent run by the Sisterhood.  She has left her fiancé Finn and committed to helping the witches of the Sisterhood against the dark manipulations of the Brotherhood in order to protect her two little sisters.  The Sisterhood has received a prophecy that one of the Cahill girls is going to be an oracle, and they all assume it’s going to be Cate, but when the Brotherhood starts imprisoning girls in an attempt to out the oracle, Cate calls her sisters to the protection of the Sisterhood.  

This is the second book in the Cahill Witch Chronicles and picks up where the first one left off.  Cate is a strong, kind sister who is trying to become a leader on the brink of war.  There is romance, magic and intrigue.  I enjoy this series because it’s pretty clean and has a strong and smart protagonist.  The ending of this book leaves the reader hanging, but the storyline is so intriguing I just can’t wait to see what happens next. 

MS, HS-ADVISABLE.  Reviewer, C. Peterson.