Name: Always a Witch
ISBN: 9780547224855

Carolyn MacCullough

When Tamsin Greene discovers that her enemy Alistair Knight successfully went back in time to Victorian-era New York to destroy the Greene family, she is forced to follow him into the past, in the sequel to Once a Witch.

Always a Witch

Monicap

nice follow-up from the awful cliffhanger that left us hanging t the end of Once a Witch. again, i feel the romance between her and gabriel was anti-climatic and not epic enough, but i've grown to expect super-epicalist romances from these types of books. 
the time-travel was thing was iffy. time travel is always dangerous, especially when you interact with family from your past. you could end up being your own great-grandfather (that happened once on Stargate SG-1) or you could end up wiping out your family line entirely which i think happened for a time during this book)
and the "terrible choice" Tamsin had to make wasn't that terrible, if you ask me. Would I have made it? probably not, but then, I'm not a character in a book. if I were a character in a book, and if I were the good character (which I might not be. i always seem to have more character traits in common with the villains of stories) yeah, I'd've made that choice. I mean, what else was she gonna do? leave it and have to end up doing it all over again?
anyway. good book. should read.

ashley hopkins

I got this from netgalley I think around the 26th of October, but didn't start it right away (I had others going) I officially started reading this 10-30-10 and finished tonight 11-3-10. :) Anyways, I loved it and that's saying alot because I haven't read the first one yet. :( I know shame shame. I put it on my to order list. So for starters not having read the first one I found it very easy to understand what was going on right away. Which to me is a plus. In the story itself the characters did tell about things that happened in book one, which for me made it all the more reason to read the first book as soon as I can buy it. 

The main part of the story revolves around Tamsin traveling back to around 1887 to warn her past family about a danger that good ruin the Greene Family. How can she possible do that without her timetraveling boyfriend? Well once she finds the way. She manages to get there and wiggles her way into the Knight's household. What exactly goes on there? You'll have to read and find out. It has exciting twists and turns and roundabouts. :) I will say that the ending not so much what I was expecting. I did enjoy it. 

I'm also a fan of the whole Talents. Not all the characters can do the same as the others. They all have well "Talents" from freezing, fire, reading this book (like a teller),timetraveling, bodyslipping (don't actually know what it's called), absorbing others talents, and some others those are the main ones though. 

I loved the MC from the beginning of the story and all the rest of the characters. Tamsin is full of witty comebacks and she seems to care alot about her family (even if she does mess with Rowena and the dress she picked out for the wedding for Tamsin). Everyone of the family members were funny. Uncle Chester and his fixing things like the teapot to make it sing "I'm a little teapot" too funny. The grandmother even though she didn't do or say much. What she did have to say was plenty. Like all Grandmas she's wise. Gabriel oh Gabriel the awesome boyfriend (and timetraveler) cares alot for Tamsin. He's just the all around good guy. *sigh* The best friend Agatha, who didn't have a big part but never the less was a good character/friend.

I can only hope that somehow a third will come from it. :) 
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