Holly Cathers is not the same person she was almost a year and a half ago. After discovering her connection to an ancient legacy of witches, Holly has accepted her destiny as a descendant of the House of Cahors and is determined to end an intergenerational feud that has plagued her family for centuries. But Holly will have to overcome unworldly obstacles as she battles to protect her loved ones – including Jer, a member of the rival House of Deveraux and her one true love. A war of magical proportions is being waged, and Holly is right in the middle of it. Lives will be lost, and sacrificed will have to be made.
This chunky volume comprises books three and four of the Wicked series by Nancy Holder and Debby Viguié and follows the publication of Wicked – Witch and Curse, the first two books, last September. The fifth and final book, Resurrection, is due for publication in April.
Legacy picks up where the second book, Cursed, left off, both in terms of the plot and the continued magical development of Holly and her Cathers cousins, Nicole and Amanda. It opens with Holly, and what remains of her coven, en route to London to rescue Nicole, who has been abducted by members of the Deveraux family and the Supreme Coven to whom they hold allegiance. Newly found abilities enable Holly to rescue first Jer and then Nicole and they all escape back to America where they come under an attack of almost cosmic force from Jer’s father, Michael Deveraux.
By the end of Legacy, the coven is once again in complete disarray with neither Jer nor Holly in any state to help. Spellbound provides some resolution and introduces an entirely new character, Alex, to the coven. Whether he is a force for the good or the bad, however, remains to be seen.
There is plenty of action, mostly involving a vast array of magical pyrotechnics, although with a few conventional arms thrown in to leaven the mix. When not in the middle of the action, Holly and Jer struggle to disentangle their own personalities and desires from the weighty expectations of their family histories, and to understand their personal positions in what is essentially a conventional battle between good and evil. As with the previous books, an assortment of Cathers , Deveraux, and now Moores (the Supreme Coven’s controlling family) ancestors play their role, taking the reader to thirteenth century France, and also early twentieth century USA and late eighteenth century Australia. Add elements of Wicca, Voodoo, Shamanism and even Christian exorcism into the mix and you have a story that rips along at a ferocious pace and is a real page turner.
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