Never have I been so balladée that in this book! Many times I had to "bump" in the pages to know where I was! For example, Cassandra asks a question (beginning of a dialogue), and 2 pages are an explanation of the reason for the question. This is very interesting of course, but when the answer arrives, we just lost the thread ... I even considered not finishing the ha ... but not so, I feel that there is "some-thing" I continue .. And now ... I give 4 stars. The story is wonderful, written in the first person as most bitlit. The passages on witchcraft are stunning. Accustomed to vampires, I was fascinated by this magical world. You will find: Wizards (black and white magic), for me, the most terrifying book Vampires, kind, wicked, Werewolves and other changeling, (nice and nasty) Ghosts: bluffing !!! A "simple" psychic high by vampires discovers immense powers, aided by a super ghost friend (the friend we all would have) and other vampires. Everything is qu'affrontement, friends turn out manipulators and vice versa. A dose of eroticism, but not too good then everything depends on our tolerance threshold at this level. So, I'll buy Volume 2 (hope nonetheless that this is less clutter-clutter)