Balefire (novel series)

Balefire is a fantasy novel series by Cate Tiernan, the author of the Sweep (aka Wicca) series. In 2006 the American Library Association picked A Chalice of Wind as one of their notable children's books for that year.[1]

Plot

After seventeen-year-old Thais Allard loses her widowed father in a car crash, she is forced to leave home. She moves to live with a total stranger in New Orleans. There, she meets her identical twin, Clio Martin. Thais soon learns that she and her twin come from a family of witches and that she possesses astonishing powers. The twins must learn to work together.

The series

  1. A Chalice of Wind
  2. A Circle of Ashes
  3. A Feather of Stone
  4. A Necklace of Water

Characters

Reception

Critical reception to the Balefire series has been positive. Of the first entry in the series, the School Library Journal praised Tiernan's characters[2] and Booklist wrote that the "action builds toward a tantalizing twist that will leave readers eager for future books".[3]

References

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