Ring of Light

Circle of Three #6

by Isobel Bird

Here within the healing circle,
Bathe in the light and pain dispel,
All that sickens, all that troubles,
Wash away and be made well.
Disillusioned, Cooper abandons the Wiccan circle and Kate and Annie are left without her. But when an illness threatens someone close to one of them, Cooper returns. Can the circle, once broken, ever be restored?

Genres: Young Adult, Fiction, Fantasy, Witches, Magic, Paranormal, Supernatural

224 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2001

About the author

This is a pseudonym of Michael Thomas Ford.

Isobel Bird has been involved in the world of paganism and witchcraft for many years. She lives and dances beneath the moon somewhere in New England.

Reviews

[Alexia ✨ · Rating 3 out of 5]

These books are really light reading. Of course they are not the best way to learn witchcraft, not even by a close shot, it's a good reading to just clear the mind of troubles and get a bit distracted.

[Georgia]

Continuing to revisit this series. After the drama of the last one, despite serious illness, death, coming out of the broom closet, a major ritual and direct action by goddesses, this one felt a bit flat. I think it's how easily the characters can change their minds or actions. Annie is scared of elderly Ben Rowe after a couple of humiliating encounters with him; none of the staff at the care home can stand him. But she decides to be his friend, and turns him around in about ten minutes. Cooper's return to Wicca after her terrifying experience in the last book also seems too easy, and I'm not sure I'm keen on TJ persuading her through telling her she's a coward. Also, the local hospital appears never to have heard of patient confidentiality.

[James Crawford · Rating 4 out of 5]

This novel deals with the three girls pretty much separately. Cooper has turned her back on Wicca, and ends up getting a boyfriend. The challenge for her comes when the other two girls ask her to help out in a ceremony, and she turns them down.

Annie is working at a nursing home to work on her challenge of confronting death. She ends up befriending a man who seems to get along with no one else at all. Then disaster strikes.

Kate also has to confront the possibility of the death of a loved one when her Aunt develops cancer and seems to be fading. One possibility is to hold a ceremony to raise healing light, but that would require getting others to help, including Cooper, plus revealing to her parents that she is involved in such type of work, something she'd rather not do.

This is a good novel, especially in how it deals with the girls facing their personal problems and triumphing in the end.

[Luna · Rating 5 out of 5]

Such a beautiful book. Cooper leaves Wicca after the midsummer incident but discovers new things about herself. Kate's aunt is sick and she needs the help of her friends and family to help her. Annie faces death once more. The characters are beginning to find more and more out about themselves and uncovering things they have had hidden.

[Christel Franken · Rating 4 out of 5]

I liked the storyline in this one

[Jen · Rating 4 out of 5]

Omg the feels in this killllllled meeeeee.

But still beautiful.

[Emery · Rating 5 out of 5]

A book hasn’t made me cry so hard in a really long time. I love this series.

[Thomas · Rating 3 out of 5]

Still entertaining but not a super interesting installment in the series. Message: hey, wicca can heal.

[Jane Love · Rating 5 out of 5]

Kate's aunt Netty come's for a visit to celebrate the 4th of July only it also turns out that she has cancer and it is getting worse, Kate asks Annie for her help in doing a Ritual to help her aunt even though Annie has problems with her own life she agrees to help but when they ask Cooper she refuses she says she doesn't want anything to do with Wicca again. Annie starts work at an old peoples home were she befriends a grumpy old man Ben, Cooper now has a boyfriend TJ who is part of her band she let's slip that she was going to Wiccan classes and he calls her up on it and calls her coward. Will Cooper re-join her friends in the Coven, Will Kate's aunt get better and does Annie ever over come the death of her parents. I read this one in a day it was such a tearjerker I couldn't put it down I needed to see what happened next now I can't wait to read the next book these are getting better as they go

[Sonia · Rating 1 out of 5]

La Bird non sapeva più come proseguire e dopo essersi esercitata nell'arrampicata sugli specchi nel quinto volume(ed essere scivolata miserevolmente...) ha preferito cimentarsi in lacrime e commozione.
Perciò vai con la morte e con la paura di morire e con le malattie mortali e, mi raccomando, mettiamoci dentro tante possiblità di lacrime!!
Una serie che era stata presentata come una storia di streghe... ma dove??
superficialità a mille, tante parti inutili, situazioni scollegate e inconcludenti.
Bah.
Bah.
Bah. Avanti così per almeno 6 volte.

[DaNela · Rating 5 out of 5]

*BIO*

[Indah Threez Lestari · Rating 3 out of 5]

514th - 2011

[Drianne · Rating 3 out of 5]

Oh, the angst!

[Melissa]

good