The Spellcaster Trilogy by Claudia Gray

The Spellcaster Trilogy by Claudia Gray

My rating: 7/10

Would I reread this: Maybe

I just finished listening to this series on audiobook and they were pretty decent. After reading this author's other series, The Firebird Trilogy which is so much fun and now one of my favorite series, I had to try this series as well.

These are paranormal and set in Captive Sound, RI. The main character, Nadia, is a young witch who begins breaking the first laws of witchery in order explain to people what is going on and that Elizabeth is really behind all the evil in the town. Lots of chaos ensues, she accidentally helps the evil witch, she must swear herself to The One Beneath and become an evil sorceress in order to save everyone, then things get even shittier and she and her boyfriend both accidentally vow to become demons to save each other. Whoops. 

These are by no way super original or anything, but they are fun. In Spellcaster you have some hope that things will turn out okay when Nadia thwarts Elizabeth's plans, aka accidentally helps her. Then in Steadfast you begin to lose hope as the town is spitting up black burning tar and Nadia swears herself to evil. In Sorceress, you've lost all hope because you don't think things can get any worse until they do and you still don't know how this book is supposed to wrap things up because this town deserves a happy ending right? Well, for the most part they do, that is to say everyone, including one demon, gets a happy ending. Nadia's mother sacrificed the most to set things right and is the only one to suffer any consequences.

The magic system in these novels is generic but still interesting. Only females can be witches/steadfasts. Steadfasts are non witches who help anchor their witch and boost her power tenfold. They can see magic but they can't use it. There are laws called First Laws of Witches which say something along the lines of:

1. Do not procreate with the son of another witch. (The child witch is susceptible to evil, like Nadia.)

2. Do not tell man born of woman about witchcraft.

3. Something about steadfasts only being women.

4. Do not use your magic for evil.

But then as Nadia finds out, these laws (maybe not the first one) can be thrown out the window since her own steadfast is her boyfriend who was created via IVF and thus was not "born of woman" and so he can see and wield magic. Times are changing and it appears they get to create the future of witchcraft after the third book resolves.