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    Spellspam: Worldweavers, #2
    Spellspam: Worldweavers, #2
    Spellspam: Worldweavers, #2
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    Spellspam: Worldweavers, #2

    By Alma Alexander

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    "You've Got Mail"

     

    In a richly magical world, computers were the only things that were thought to be impervious to magic... or so everyone believed. Until ordinary emails that began by sounding like practical jokes started turning into real working spells, with increasingly perilous consequences.

     

    Thea Winthrop, double seventh, child of magic, had thought that her unique ability to access magic through this unexpected medium was something that was hers alone - until she discovers taht there is someone else out there - someone with similar powers, but bent on using them witha  wild and dangerous agenda. And Thea, still finding her way through her new magical gifts, is called upon to step up and face a difficult decision, and a task that might break her.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAlma Alexander
    Release dateApr 18, 2023
    ISBN9781611389227
    Spellspam: Worldweavers, #2
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    Alma Alexander

    Alma Alexander was born in Yugoslavia and has lived in Zambia, Swaziland, Wales, South Africa and New Zealand. She now lives in Washington state, USA. She writes full-time and runs a monthly creative writing workshop with her husband.

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    • 4/5
      Computers are supposedly magically inert, but Thea can do magic with them anyway. When spam messages start to trigger spells, Thea and her friends at school work to solve the mystery and stop the spammer.Second in a solid series.
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      It's the next year with everyone back at the Wandless Academy. A girl, LaTasha, runs screaming from the Library. To Thea she looked like she had no skin on her face just the muscles. Thea finds the spam email LaTasha read still on the computer screen; guaranteeing clearer skin than you can image. Could there be a spell involved? Here at the Wandless Academy where no one can do magic. And from through the computers where magic can't affect any one... Is Thea going to be the one blamed for all these spellspams since the principle knows what she can do?This book is an excellent second book. It focuses on the wonderful story more than the setup of the characters and magical world. I felt there were two additional climaxes to the storyline that went with the main story, almost like two bonus short stories added in. The spellspams were fun as the way they were worded made me chuckle and as the story went on I wanted to figure out what the spell would affect before I knew the results of it.Thea and her friends are curious about what they did with the computers last year, as they are a group on magicless kids in a world full of magic - and last year seemed like magic. They start to investigate more into the unique computer magic. Thea had thought she was the only person that could touch computers in a magical way, but these new spellspams leave her wondering if there is someone else out there like her.In this book Thea's powers start to grow. It is also very nice to see Thea stand on her own two feet when it comes to her magical abilities. She is starting to get better control of what she can do, when to ask for help, and who to ask. Thea is a young girl starting to grow up. We also take Thea out of her safe zone of the Wandless Academy which opens up a door to more danger. The Alphiri are still a shadow in the back of Thea's mind that could jump out and take her at any time.I enjoyed the characters in this book as well. Thea's aunt is one of my favorites for the way she talks and her magic. But I enjoyed the way all the characters interact with each other. Alma is great at picking up children's views of happenings around them.This book is great for Young Readers and Young Adults as there is no gory violence and not sexual content.

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