Early reviews of Spellbound:

As a former Christian who embraced my family’s Pagan roots as an adult, I am thrilled to find Nicole Ford Thomas’s Spellbound is set to target a specific readership and character age group. When I was in high school, I would have loved to have read about Davie and her friends as they not only come to accept how much magic drives their world, but it has been right under their teenage noses all along.

Like Davie, her soon-to-be friends Gretchen, Jordan, and Bryony are unlikely to be magical people. Davie is the local coven’s daughter and unwilling trainee, Gretchen is a shy artist, Jordan is a basketball player to the stars, and Bry would rather not be masquerading as her mother’s doll. However, they feel forced into molds that their parents dictate as being what is best for them, and those molds are more like shells of who they were always meant to be.

On this journey, readers will find healing paths for not only themselves as teenagers but also as adults looking back on their teenage years and longing for them to have been something other than what they were. At many times, I as an adult found myself in each of the three girls, and even with Jordan and his bro-dude like ways eventually won all the brownie points I could hope to give him.

The sensitivity Thomas takes to these characters and their situations is one of an author who sits free herself along with the readers following this quad of epic awesome magic users as they learn and grow. Thank you for sharing Spellbound with the world at a time where representation of all witches, male and female, straight and gay, teenager and not, is much needed.

I find myself wanting more than just a sequel with this book. I can see where these characters have so much to learn in their young ages, and forever will their magic be the path that brings liberation for those on the journey.

-Jenna O’Malley, The Soul Writer