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Spellbound Trilogy #0.5
LoveSpell
The one spell that started it all…
Gabriella Havish has it all ... beauty, wealth, powers, friends, and a loving family. But there is one thing she wants above all else ... James Dalton. Too bad the sexy warlock is not only from an enemy coven, he barely knows she's alive.
So Gabriella makes a deal ... and suffers the devastating consequences. She's just a girl in love, but she soon discovers that true love can't be found in a magic bottle. She has no idea that one spell will forever change the course of her destiny, and that her nightmare is just beginning.
This is the story before the story…Find out what really happened to Gabriella all those years ago.
***AUTHOR’S NOTE: Although this novel precedes the Spellbound Trilogy, it is intended to be read AFTER reading the series as it reveals many important spoilers and plot twists that will diminish the reading experience of Spellbound.***
Gabriella Havish has it all ... beauty, wealth, powers, friends, and a loving family. But there is one thing she wants above all else ... James Dalton. Too bad the sexy warlock is not only from an enemy coven, he barely knows she's alive.
So Gabriella makes a deal ... and suffers the devastating consequences. She's just a girl in love, but she soon discovers that true love can't be found in a magic bottle. She has no idea that one spell will forever change the course of her destiny, and that her nightmare is just beginning.
This is the story before the story…Find out what really happened to Gabriella all those years ago.
***AUTHOR’S NOTE: Although this novel precedes the Spellbound Trilogy, it is intended to be read AFTER reading the series as it reveals many important spoilers and plot twists that will diminish the reading experience of Spellbound.***
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347 pages, Unknown Binding
First published June 24, 2013
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Penelope King
14 books360 followersPenelope King is the author of several bestselling Young Adult fantasy-romance novels, including the "Spellbound Trilogy" and the "Demonblood Series."
Penelope graduated from the University of California, Irvine and currently resides in Charlotte, North Carolina
For more information please visit: authorpenelopeking.blogspot.com
Penelope graduated from the University of California, Irvine and currently resides in Charlotte, North Carolina
For more information please visit: authorpenelopeking.blogspot.com
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December 13, 2018
3.5 Stars.
It's been three years since I read the Spellbound trilogy. I remember I really liked it, and I gave my friend copies of the books so she could read them as well. We went on a New Years vacation together last year, and she was in the process of reading the last book so we buddy read some of it together. Doing this rekindled and reminded me of my love of the trilogy, so when I heard of the existance of Lovespell, a prequel to the trilogy, I wasted no time in buying it.
It's now August, and I've read over thirty other books since then, but I've finally done it! I read Lovespell, yaaay :).
So of course it was really weird diving back into this world that I haven't visited in a long time. It was even weirder that this was told from the point of view of Calista's (heroine in the Spellbound Trilogy) MOM. Obviously as an adult, Cali's mom (Gabriella) was mature and stuff, so that's how I remembered her. In Lovespell we see Gabby when she was a really immature, stupid, rash, crazy teenager.
I feel like a lot of people might be turned of by Gabby a lot in the beginning because of her personality and how she acts. It didn't bother me that much, because I was always wanting to know what will happen next because the story moved along nicely. There were a lot of little things from the Spellbound trilogy and references that I liked, though of course I don't remember a lot of them.
As a warning, this book has some mature scenes like violence and gore (of which I can see as being scary to younger audiences), and characters have sex multiple times.
If that warning doesn't matter to you or turn you off I would really recommend this book to readers who liked the Spellbound trilogy. It was really satisfying, and it's not a novela, it's its own legitimate complex story. I know a lot of times little companion books like this can be unsatisfying *cough*Fairest*cough*, but I really had a good time reading this.
It's been three years since I read the Spellbound trilogy. I remember I really liked it, and I gave my friend copies of the books so she could read them as well. We went on a New Years vacation together last year, and she was in the process of reading the last book so we buddy read some of it together. Doing this rekindled and reminded me of my love of the trilogy, so when I heard of the existance of Lovespell, a prequel to the trilogy, I wasted no time in buying it.
It's now August, and I've read over thirty other books since then, but I've finally done it! I read Lovespell, yaaay :).
So of course it was really weird diving back into this world that I haven't visited in a long time. It was even weirder that this was told from the point of view of Calista's (heroine in the Spellbound Trilogy) MOM. Obviously as an adult, Cali's mom (Gabriella) was mature and stuff, so that's how I remembered her. In Lovespell we see Gabby when she was a really immature, stupid, rash, crazy teenager.
I feel like a lot of people might be turned of by Gabby a lot in the beginning because of her personality and how she acts. It didn't bother me that much, because I was always wanting to know what will happen next because the story moved along nicely. There were a lot of little things from the Spellbound trilogy and references that I liked, though of course I don't remember a lot of them.
As a warning, this book has some mature scenes like violence and gore (of which I can see as being scary to younger audiences), and characters have sex multiple times.
If that warning doesn't matter to you or turn you off I would really recommend this book to readers who liked the Spellbound trilogy. It was really satisfying, and it's not a novela, it's its own legitimate complex story. I know a lot of times little companion books like this can be unsatisfying *cough*Fairest*cough*, but I really had a good time reading this.
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March 27, 2015
Good book, but I didn't like it as well as the others in the series.
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