Don't Judge, Read: Blog Tour Stop: The Silver Key by Elena Schauwecker - Review

The Silver Key
by Elena Schauwecker
Genre: YA Fantasy
Release Date: December 6th 2016
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Summary from Goodreads:

“If those bad guys—Meladyne—if they have this Key, they will . . .?”

“Unlock the greatest power in all the universe and enslave every man, woman, and child on this planet, destroying the earth and all life as you know it; there will be nowhere to go but Meladyne. Then they’ll leave the Sunolians, the spirits, and all the magical creatures here to die.”

Alyssa pulled the Key out of her pocket and held it up.

“Unless I protect this little thing?”

“Yes.”

Alyssa McCaw is a normal fourteen-year-old girl, perfectly happy with her life. But when one little key falls into her hands, her whole world is turned upside down. She suddenly finds herself whisked into a world full of the one thing she never would’ve thought possible: magic.

At first, it appears to be a beautiful thing. But as Alyssa and her sister soon discover, magic, like all things, has a dark side. When her best friend Hazel is taken captive by a land of dark magic, it is up to Alyssa and her friends to rescue both Hazel and the world.

A classic tale of light versus dark, this book will pull you into a universe of love, betrayal, and, most of all, magic.

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(I received this book free in exchange for my honest review)
My Rating: ★★★★☆

I must say I am whole heartily impressed with this book, and what gets me more is the age of the author. At 14 to write and published a book, wow. When I was 14 I was lucky to get to the bus on time or have my homework done. (I was a lazy kid).

I love the flow of this book, it was fast pace and kept my interest from start to finish. There were no gaps, there was always something going on, and that is a good way to start off with your first book.

Most times the first book in a series is chalk full of info, basically it's just a big info dump and 9 times out of 10 we get through a first book just to read the second. I am that this wasn't the case for this book.

The magic school setting was done good, I don't often read choses sort of books, mostly because at my age reading about the hell that was hight school/ middle school - is just plain old annoying. I'm a pretty sassy lady, even when I was younger, so went I read about the "mean girls" and "the bullies" I just screamed in my head "Just throat punch them!" so yeah.

I don't want to get to much into this school of magic, because believe me, this isn't like anything you've read before.

In all I highly recommend this book, it's something special, and I can't wait for the next instillment.

Happy Reading

E.A. Walsh