Crushed: The Witch Game Novels, Book One (1) - Softcover

Blake, Kasi

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1634220838 ISBN 13: 9781634220835

Publisher: Clean Teen Publishing, 2015

Synopsis

The Noah girls have beauty, powers, and brains.

They use all three to play their games.

They blow the dust,

the boys are crushed,

and no one is ever the same.

Each year the Noah girls play a secret game― Crushed. The rules are simple.

1. Use wisdom to pick your target. The boy can't be too weak or too strong-willed. 

2. Blow the enchanted dust into your target's face to enchant (Crush) him. 

3. Give verbal commands and assign them tasks to perform throughout the year. The more tasks completed, the stronger the witch's power grows. 

4. At the end of the year, the witch with the most power wins cold, hard cash. 

As if being a witch in high school isn't complicated enough, Kristen picks the wrong boy to Crush. Zach is tall, handsome, and a little scary. Her Crush spell isn't working on him like it has with the others. In fact, he is behaving the opposite of every other boy she's Crushed, hating her instead of adoring her. Something is definitely wrong. After someone attempts to kill her, Kristen realizes there is more at risk than a few hundred dollars. She may be betting with her life.

About this title

From the Author:

If you ask Kasi Blake how old she was when she started writing, she will probably say twelve. That's when she wrote her first short story. But it started long before then. Her first characters were invisible friends she played with as a child. In the third grade she wrote a one-page story about a mummy for an assignment, and the teacher read it to the class. Even though she was embarrassed, the other kids laughed in all the right places, and she realized she could affect other people through her writing. She loves to get lost in emotional stories, crying and laughing with the characters, so she thinks it's the most amazing thing in the world to be able to do this for other people.  Originally from California, she resides in the Midwest on a farm with cows, chickens, ducks, a dog, and two cats.

From School Library Journal:

Gr 9 Up—The Noah triplets have a secret. All three of them are witches, though which of them is the most powerful remains a mystery. Every year Kristin, Brittany, and Cyndi wage a war against one another. Whomever can make a boy fall hopelessly in love with her without breaking the spell wins. This year the stakes are high with the sisters betting more than the usual large sum of money. The winner will gain the added advantage of taking the triplets' shared vehicle to college. Kristin, who is desperate to have the car and start a new life, chooses to crush Zach Bevian. There is just one problem. Unbeknownst to the trio, Zach is a warlock—and not just any warlock, a dangerously powerful one, hell-bent on revenge. This foray into dark magic is predictable in the romance department and a little light on suspense. However, there is no shortage of saucy magic use and mean-girl antics. Teens that enjoy Sara Shepard's "Pretty Little Liars" (HarperCollins) books are likely to dig Blake's entertaining series opener. VERDICT A first purchase for libraries where paranormal romance still has a strong hold.—Jennifer Furuyama, Pendleton Public Library, OR

About this edition

• Publisher: Clean Teen Publishing
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1634220838
• ISBN 13: 9781634220835
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 266