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Phoebe Who
Reviewed by Tim McCree
January 2007

 

BOOK: Phoebe Who
AUTHOR: 
Emma Harrison
NOTE: This review may contain plot spoilers.

Before I start, I just want to wish everyone a very Happy New Year!  I hope you all have a great 2007 :) 

Way back in 1999, one of the first Charmed fan fictions I wrote was called Forget Me, Phoebe.  The plot dealt with Phoebe accidentally losing her memory and the Halliwell’s then nemesis, Rex Buckland, taking advantage of the situation.   Now an idea similar to mine has been professionally written.  I must say that I enjoyed this book, for the most part.

 While fighting some rather nasty Demons (called Flecters), Phoebe gets separated from Piper and Paige.  Before she can return to her sisters, Phoebe is hit by a powerful spell, that causes her to lose her memory.  She has no idea who she is, or who her sisters are.  After wandering around for a while, Phoebe is befriended by a witch called Aura.  Aura claims to know Phoebe as someone named “Ruth”.  She takes the amnesiac Phoebe back to her home, where they met Aura’s two friends, Delilah and Terra.  It seems that Aura, Delilah, and Terra have an agenda of their own, and they are using Phoebe to help achieve that agenda.

 Meanwhile, Piper and Paige are having problems of their own.  Aside from a missing sister, they are being assaulted constantly by the Flecter Demons.  They need The Power Of Three to vanquish said Demons, but how can they do it without Phoebe? 

I liked most of this book, as the confused Phoebe blindly trusts her new friends at first.  However, as the plot continues, Phoebe begins to suspect that Aura and her two friends are not as they seem.  However, she cannot put everything together, which the three evil witches count on (shouldn’t Aura and her friends be called Warlocks, since they are witches gone bad, but I digress).   As the plot continues, Phoebe does question the methods of Aura and the others, but cannot bring herself to outright confront them.  After all, they are the only people she knows in her current state of mind.

 

However, there is one thing about this book that I didn’t like.  It featured a plot device that I grew to hate on the television show, fairy tale characters.  This book has leprechauns, fairies, wood nymphs, you name it.  However, these characters only play a small part in the overall story, so I can live with that.  The reasons these characters are there is because they have heard of Phoebe’s Advice Column and want her to help them with their own relationships!  Yep, it seems that Ask Phoebe is just as popular in the magical world as it is in the mortal world!

 Some other points:

 -still no sign of Big Chris. 

-Daryl is actually in this book, which is nice.  Hopefully, the books will keep him around, and not drop him like the show did.

 -Leo also gets lots to do in this book, which I greatly liked.

 -I have to wonder about where the author got the names for some of the characters that appear in this book: Aura, Delilah, Terra, Nayla, and Maribel.   This really shouts SAN FRANCISCO all over it!

 -the subplot with Piper and Paige battling the Flecter Demons was well done.  It’s interesting to see the Charmed Ones fight evil on two fronts.  In this case, neither evil they are fighting is allied with the other, but rather just had the bad luck to show up at the same time.

 -Phoebe’s reaction when she realizes that the evil witches named her “Ruth” was priceless.

 Anyway, I liked this book.  I give it an 8/10.


  
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