Even though we all
know that witches don’t exist in the world some people like to pretend they do.
In this book there is a whole other story with boy and girl witches. One
interesting thing is that there is no boy witches, boys that have powers are
called warlocks instead. So you see that there is a whole other twist with the
witches and warlocks. “Parties and Potions” is completely a story that will
pull you into real life with its realistic life capturing moments with romance
and a ton of drama. I assure you that what I’m telling you is true.
The main character “Rachel” in this novel is going through a
tough time with these two boys she really likes: Raf and Adam. Rachel was
already dating Raf when she met Adam in Charm school. Adam thinks that she
should tell Raf the truth about her being a witch. Rachel tried telling her dad
but it wasn’t how she hoped it would and didn’t want to go through it again
with Raf so she broke up with him, heartbroken.
Also with what happened with her dad, telling him the truth almost made
him faint not wanting to see the girls for a while to take it all in. That
really started to upset the girls mostly Miri; Rachel’s little sister. During
that time for the next few paragraphs all Rachel wanted to do is lie in bed and
cry herself to sleep. Reading the part about her breaking up with Raf and her
crying almost made me cry and feel miserable, same with her seeing her dad and
not being able to see or speak to him made me miss my dad. This is only the
drama part of the spectacular story.
What I am about to tell you doesn’t happen in most stories.
It is the story of young love. Rachel finally gets the guy of her dreams and
believe it or not, she counts every single kiss they shared and got up to one
hundred and thirty-two kisses, then at the end they did one more that made one last
kiss that was number hundred and thirty-three. Those two really liked each
other from the very beginning. They would go out to a pizza place with their
friends and hang out at each other’s house watching movies. Rachel does start
to like the new guy Adam but only as a friend, though he does start to like her
and tries to kiss her but she refuses. I know I would do the same thing even
though in the book she was flirting with him without even knowing it.
Because of all the different characters that are in the
book. One time in the book Rachel finds out that there is something very
strange about Raf, it is that he likes to yell at movies. Rachel invited him
over for a movie night and he was just going on yelling at the actors saying “Get
out of the way” or “Don’t go in the closet are you mad”. Whenever Rachel gets nervous
she sometimes falls randomly by tripping on something right in the middle of a
party. This mostly happened whenever she saw Adam and Miri would make a kissy
face. I would always feel so embarrassed like it happened to me or someone I
know.
It really breaks my heart to say this but this is the last
book Sarah Mlynowski made and so goes
the magic. I will always remember this with its humorous life breaking
adventures and magic.
