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Chargement... Club 669par Amy Spector
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Appartient à la sérieHouse of Witches (1)
Club 669 (House of Witches Book 1) Witch's corpse. Witch's ticket. Witch's party. As a counter-boy at a high-end men's boutique, Charlie Jessup's life consists of little more than work and sleep. That, and enough flirting to help guarantee his commission on sales will pay his rent. So when a twist of fate, and some behavior unbecoming that of a Ganymede employee, leaves him in possession of a dead man's pass to a mysterious Club 669, Charlie has no desire to waste it. Every seventeen years, the House of Witches throws a party like no other. It's invitation-only, and for centuries it has helped ensure peace between the covens. It's the last place Caspian wants to be, but with the death of Queen Avel, and his own imminent rise to the throne, it's more important than ever that he attends. The stability of the House depends on it. In four days a new king will be crowned, but when Charlie unintentionally crashes a gathering of the most secretive of all the Great Houses, he sets in motion a series of events that could disrupt the transition of power, and threaten the future of the House of Witches forever. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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I really enjoyed the mystery and intrigue in this book. The plot is all rather vague however and left more questions unanswered than answered. I really hope the author goes into more depth about the world that she built as the series goes along about the witch society.
The story is set in what appears to be an alternate universe of Earth. It has many similarities, even the same companies and technology, but it’s also less functional on the human side. It’s like witches have more advantage but they tend to hide, and the life Charlie lives is rather sparse, if not hand-to-mouth. This is one of the questions I wondered about in this book. Is this Earth and there was a war amongst the witches that destroyed human society as we know it and so now witches are more in power? Or is this just an alternate Earth? In fact, I have a whole lot of questions I plan on posting behind a spoiler further on.
Like I said, the world that Charlie lives in is harsh. He can barely make ends meet and his days working at the men’s boutique are coming to and end because he is starting to look older. The only thing that makes his days is a hot guy that comes into his shop, who he later finds out is Caspian. He figures Caspian is a businessman, but later learns he’s way more important than that. What I found interesting is that Caspian patronized this store, even though Caspian is so filthy rich, he could have shopped at a much more expensive place. Why did he return there? It seems like he may already have been attracted to Charlie. Caspian’s personality is reserved when in human society, amongst his own people he’s more commanding. He always treats Charlie kindly. Caspian is also sadly resigned to his fate because it’s expected of him. After Charlie figures out who and what Caspian is, he’s willing to accept whatever he can from him. At least he’ll have this moment to remember for the rest of his life. For some reason I can’t place Charlie’s personality. Usually, characters have distinct attributes that are easy to figure out, but not Charlie. He’s protective of Caspian and he loves reading like Caspian. I get the impression Charlie is like, ‘My life sucks, but I can’t do much about it, so I may as well grab some happiness while I can.’ I do like both characters though and can see them together as a couple. They haven’t known each other for long, but Caspian and Charlie developed close feelings for each other in a short time.
There are a couple things that I had trouble within this book, and it could just be me. I thought the beginning was a bit slow and for some reason I couldn’t orient myself on what was happening in the plot. I don’t think the story settled for me until Caspian walked into the store. The second thing I had difficulty with was that even though this is told in first person from Charlie’s pov, at times it felt like there was a pov shift and I was in Caspian’s head or no one’s pov at all. It would take me a little while to realize that something was off, and I’d have to stop and re-read what I’d read which ended up pulling me out of the story.
I can’t forget the ending! It’s not really a cliff-hanger even though it feels like it to an extent. The story is complete as a first book, but the ending is a huge mysterious lead-in to the next book. It’s optimistic, not a HEA or even an HFN, but a hint of something going to happen.
Now, I wrote up a list of questions I had about the plot. I’m really, really hoping the author plans on answering these questions in the future books because my mind desperately needs to know the details about each of these points. I’ll put the questions behind a spoiler for those who don’t want any clues.
1) How did the Regent know that Charlie was the specific person that would upset everything amongst the witches? Was it just a vague vision of ‘someone’ or he knew what Charlie looked like even though he didn’t know who he was?
2) How did the Regent know to arrange it, so at the party Charlie would get kidnapped? Because the Regent mentioned that Sebastian had failed that night to bring Charlie to him. That sounds as if Sebastian was given orders to go after Charlie, which means the Regent knew who Charlie was.
3) Did the Regent set it up so that the brother of Sebastian was killed so then Charlie would find the ticket and end up at the party where Sebastian would drug and kidnap Charlie to bring him to the Regent?
4) What does Charlie’s faded tattoo mean? Is it just a mark of his family’s surname? Or does it mean he’s a part of a secretive group?
5) Do Adam and Sebastian get together? Or Adam and Dax? Because Adam and Dax would be cool.
6) When Charlie was a captive of the Regent, why did the Regent say, “He woke up,” when the lights flickered? Did the Regent drug Caspian?
7) And finally, when we know Caspian shows up at the end again. Why didn’t Charlie hear him or turn around? How could Caspian walk that fast to the apartment before Charlie turned around? Can witches make themselves invisible?
So those are just a few of the questions I have about this story. As you can see, there are a tremendous amount of, what I call ‘holes.’ Sometimes authors purposefully leave ‘holes’ to be answered in the follow up books, which I really hope is the case because I enjoy fantasy stories much more when a world is complete, in-depth, and the questions are answered.
Overall, I really enjoyed the world the author created as well as the characters. Caspian and Charlie are distinct personalities and seem well suited to each other. I didn’t however, like what I considered for me personally, too many unanswered questions. I want to give this book, 4 stars because of that, but the world-building and characters are great and deserves more than four stars. I’ll give Club 669, 5 Stars, and keep my fingers crossed that the author delves more into the world-building and provides answers to so many unanswered questions.
I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review. (