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Scotch Broom (The Witches of Galdorheim Book 3) Kindle Edition

by Marva Dasef (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.5 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
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A magical trip to Stonehenge lands a witch in the Otherworld where an ancient goddess is up to no good. Kat expects to have a great time on her graduation trip to Stonehenge. However, from the moment she leaves the witches’ arctic island, Galdorheim, she gets in nothing but trouble. Her younger half-brother tries to horn in on her trip, she gets lost in the magical Otherworld realm, is led astray by a supposed friend, then she has to confront a Scottish goddess who’s fallen on hard times. While dodging the goddess’ minions and trying to find her way out of the Otherworld, Kat soon learns she shouldn’t underestimate the old has-been for one second; the crone still has a few tricks that can drain a witch’s magic in a flash. To make matters worse, Kat's brother secretly followed her into the Otherworld. Now he’s in danger too. Kat has to go one on one with the goddess to save herself and her brother.
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    9 - 18 years
  2. Book 3 of 6
    The Witches of Galdorheim
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    155 pages
  4. Language
    English
  5. Publication date
    April 8, 2014
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Scotch Broom is the third book in the Witches of Galdorheim series. All three books are currently offered in ebook, print, and audio. 
I hope readers will enjoy meeting Kat the klutzy teen witch, her smart-aleck brother Rune, Mordita the Sorceress, and the other witches on Galdorheim Island. In Kat's adventures, she'll meet legendary creatures presented with my own humorous twist. Trolls, giants, werewolves, spirits, goddesses, unicorns, and plenty of fey occupy the pages of Bad Spelling, Midnight Oil, and Scotch Broom.

About the Author

Marva Dasef is a writer living in the Pacific Northwest with her husband. Retired from thirty-five years in the software industry, she has now turned her energies to writing fiction and finds it a much more satisfying occupation. 
 
Marva has published more than forty stories in a number of on-line and print magazines, with several included in Best of anthologies. She has several already published print and ebooks, and is now turning them into audio books. Six audio books are currently available.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00JKR8XRG
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Marva Dasef (April 8, 2014)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ April 8, 2014
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 1473 KB
  • Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 155 pages
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Marva Dasef is a writer living in the Pacific Northwest with her husband. Retired from thirty-five years in the software industry, she has now turned her energies to writing fiction and finds it a much more satisfying occupation.

Marva has published more than forty stories in a number of on-line and print magazines, with several included in Best of anthologies. She has several already published print and ebooks, and is now turning them into audio books. Twelve audio books are currently available.

See a complete list of her published work at http://tinyurl.com/DasefAuthor/ and http://mgddasef.blogspot.com/

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William Haynes
5.0 out of 5 stars A BETTER THAN AVERAGE S/V STORY FOR THE TEACHER!!
Reviewed in the United States on October 15, 2014
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An appealing story, about a young girl, Kat (witch), & her brother Rune (Vampire), just graduating from School, & going on an overseas vacation! She's going to Stone Henge, in Scotland, & He's supposed to visit his dad in Transylvania-- But follows her instead! They have a Tif, & go different ways, & get lost! Kat is followed by agents of a Depleted Goddess (Cailleach), who needs blood to restore her youth! Rune meets an attractive Other World Vampire (Glaistig), who is also an agent of Cailleach, & is attracted to her! Cailleach forces Rune to drink Glaistig's blood, & kill her! Cailleach then drinks Runes blood, almost killing him-- But blossoming Her Youth! All the good guys, including Scottish Trowls, get together & beat the bad guys. Rune realizes that Glaistig sacrificed her life to save his life!
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TermiteWriter
4.0 out of 5 stars Young Witches Come of Age
Reviewed in the United States on January 23, 2014
Scotch Broom is volume 3 of the author’s MG/YA series The Witches of Galdorheim, which relates the adventures of a teenage witch named Katrina, or Kat, and her half-brother Rune who live on a magically transformed island in the Barents Sea, north of Russia and Scandinavia.
Katrina is about sixteen now and is going to Stonehenge for her Winter Abroad, something all young witches must experience on their own. Her younger brother Rune, a half-vampire, is being sent to visit his father in Transylvania, but since he isn’t keen on that idea, he takes off (via the Troller-Coaster again – see v.1) and follows his sister. Through the trickery of a fellow student witch, Kat and Rune both end up passing through a magic portal into the world of Gaelic Faery. Here we meet magical creatures – the stag Sianach, the green Hound from Hell Cusith, the fairy cat Cait Sidhe, a unicorn named Diamond, and others. But the most sinister and the most darkly funny character is the winter goddess Cailleach, who through lack of worshippers, has deteriorated into her hag form. Cailleach is eager to seize this young witch who is trespassing in her realm so she can steal her magic and regain her youthful powers.
Marva Dasef’s stories are particularly fun for their allusions and send-ups of our modern day. For example, when Kat makes a map of her trip appear in the air, Rune remarks, “Looks like Google Earth, except see-through.” Cailleach has a book on her shelf called “Selling Love Potions on the Internet.” The Otherworld is infested with skrats, strange little feathered creatures that appear to be a cross between a chicken and a rat. Actually, a skrat is an entity from Scandinavian folklore, but I was immediately reminded of Scrat from the Ice Age movies. The fairy cat Cait Sidhe is a particularly entertaining character, always independent according to cat nature but more willing to help than he wants to admit. He spouts breezy jargon, throwing out Spanish phrases like “De nada,” calling the unicorn the “donkey,” and addressing Kat as “witchy.”
The story gets more serious toward the end, however, when Rune undergoes a coming-of-age ordeal of his own in confronting Cailleach. After this experience he will never be quite the same devil-may-care youth that he has been in the series up to now.
And one more remark. The author threw in frequent references to the Wizard of Oz, particularly toward the end of the book. They add to the book’s richness and are a lot of fun.
I have given all three books in this series four stars. This one is definitely the best and if I could, I would give it four and a half. I recommend the series for any young person in the appropriate age group, and it’s a fun read for adults as well!
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Kymberlyn A Reed (The Fountain Pen Diva)
5.0 out of 5 stars Kat Goes to Scotland...Sort Of
Reviewed in the United States on February 11, 2014
If you don't like books with self-sufficient and adventurous heroines who would rather travel than be in a relationship with some irresistable "hawt boy du jour", Scotch Broom will not be for you. For those of us who love intrepid heroines who get themselves into and out of scrapes, the third book in Marva Dasef's Witches of Galdorheim series is a treat and proves that not every book with a strong heroine needs to be a romance.

What really stood out for me was this conversation:

***"I want to tell Andy I'll be gone until next spring, and...and I think we should take a break from each other."

Ardyth joined the conversation in her role as mom. "Sweetheart. Do you really want to do that? Andy is your first love, after all."

"Ah, Mom, he's smothering me!"

"Uh, sweetie, you haven't even seen him for months."

Kat tightened her lips. How do I explain long-distance smothering? "Mom, things change, or at least, I have. A lot. Andy is a normal human now, and I don't mean that in any negative way. We just don't have much in common. I'm a witch, and he no longer has his troll magic."

"It's not Andy's fault he changed back into human form when he left the Troll Kingdom."

"Actually, it is!" Kat almost stamped her foot but managed to hold back. Why don't they get it? "He can't live here without magic, and I can't live with his tribe with magic.***

*The Fountain Pen Diva says \m/\m/* See, you can have a great heroine who doesn't change at the first whiff of testosterone.

Kat is sixteen years old and ready to go on her Winter Abroad, a witch's first solo jaunt to the outside world. She plans to visit Stonehenge, stopping off first in Scotland to deliver some letters to the Trow (Troll) King Connor. Of course this being Kat, it's more than certain the best-laid plans will go astray. However, it's the machinations of a bullying former classmate named Merry who sends poor Kat into the Otherworld and into the hands of a weakened yet scheming goddess (who thinks that William Shakespeare was some kind of magician. The Macbeth jokes were hilarious). Caillech wants her power back and the only way to get it is for her to steal from a witch...and poor Kat, lost in the Otherworld and trying to make her way to the King Connor's hall, looks like the perfect victim.

Then there's Rune (better known as my fictional jailbait book boyfriend). He's being sent to Transylvania to meet his father, and he's not interested in the least. So Rune, being Rune does what he does best--get involved in whatever his sister Kat is into by ditching Transylvania and heading to Scotland:

***The other reason, though, was she was always getting into some interesting messes. Not on purpose, of course. But nothing exciting ever happened to him that didn't involve Kat. Her entertainment value was huge in Rune's mind.***

And indeed she does. Kat finds herself escorted (perhaps) by a magnificent stag, a green-tinted hell hound and a sarcastic sidhe who transforms into a cat. Oh and a unicorn (how remiss of me to forget). Meanwhile, Kat and Rune's mother and aunt are in rescue mode, headed to the Otherworld, hopefully before things get dangerous.

Unfortunately for Rune, dual-natured as he is, things take a darker turn.

Marva Dasef skillfully blends magic and mythology and humor. It's a great series for anyone who likes amazing, resourceful heroines who doesn't mind being brainy and who do their own rescuing, thank you very much. This is why she is my author rock star, and why I don't mind providing an honest review.

Oh, and I need copies of The Compleat Book of Bats. Care and Feeding of Monsters. Selling Love Potions on the Internet. Vampires: The Myths and the Facts, lol.

By the way, was I the only person to have a Jefferson Airplane moment with this line "One spell makes it larger and one spell makes it small."
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Victoria Haugen
4.0 out of 5 stars AWESOME THIRD INSTALLMENT!
Reviewed in the United States on September 27, 2018
Exciting third installment to the Witches of Galdorheim series! This is a very entertaining series, and I loved this Book #3! Just when you think Kat & her brother can't get into any more trouble, anything and everything happens, including them winding up in the Otherworld realm! What exciting and interesting characters she meets - very fun listen, really enjoyed this series and hope there's more coming in the future.

Loved the narration, as always, really enjoyable with all the amazing characters around! :)

I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.
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