Kindle Edition Download to your Nook (eBook) Amazon Barnes & Noble.com Edita A. Petrick Edita A. Petrick Category:  Action/Thriller Publisher: Wee Creek Press ISBN-10:  1942922035 Pages: 228 Copyright: April 15, 2015 ISBN-13: 9781942922032 Price: $4.99 (eBook) Kitaya and Karin are brought together under inhospitable circumstances and slowly forge a friendship that springs from their mutual need to find their place in a vast galactic society that will always be suspicious of those whose brilliant mind and mental talents set them apart from the rest of the populations. Young Kitaya has hundreds of mothers. Four-hundred-forty-three to be exact. She doesn’t remember living anywhere else but inside the great and forever-changing messy yard that is encircled by a massive wall. She’s home-schooled and when one of her mothers takes her on a field trip, it’s usually across the galaxy to learn how stars are born and how they acquire planets. She calls her home the Calamora Fort, but her friend, Joshua, calls it prison. What the jungle tribes call it depends on whether the frontier gods allow them to see it or not. When she learns that the Witches have started to erase Joshua’s memories so he would not reveal their existence she grows scared. Then she gets angry. Why is her childhood playmate being sent away?  At thirteen she knows that her magic isn’t strong enough to let her stand up against the fourth-hundred-and-forty-three self-styled gods, but there is an option. Steal Joshua’s dormant body and run. The jungle is teeming with vicious predators but she’s fearless and determined to reach the human party moving through the jungle. But single-mindedness has consequences. She is so focused on her goal just minutes ahead that she forgets to look behind. And by the time she does glance over her shoulder, death and destruction are not just perilously close but have caught up.

A must read for fans of paranormal young adult books, August 3, 2015
Well written and a fun young adult paranormal book. If that sounds like something you would enjoy I highly recommend this one. The author has great world building skills and right from the beginning you are introduced into a magical world. The conflict between Kitaya and Joshua is perfect and adds so much to the story. Lots of challenges, tension and suspense throughout. Unique and a real page turner.

A must read for fans of best selling young adult genres. Looking forward to more from the author.

What a unique fantasy read, August 9, 2015
I love YA fiction and particularly anything in the fantasy genre as I think that there is so much that you can do with it. Author Editha A. Petrick definitely knows how to spin a unique tale with her coming of age paranormal fantasy, "The Witches of Calamora". The story of Kitaya, a girl who is being raised in an unusual manner but seems content with it, despite protests from her closest friend that it is all wrong. Kitaya does have some powers and a series of events necessitate that she finally run for freedom and it's not a simple endeavor. This was an intense read that definitely had me engaged early on and I was impressed with the quality of the writing.

Good Reading, September 28, 2015
Deep in the forest magic flows shaping the worlds, buildings and all things material.

Kitaya and Joshua are orphans rescued by the Witches of Calamora when the Allied settlement is raised by privateers. Thirteen years later Kitaya is well on her way to becoming the strongest witch ever seen, while Joshua is magically mute, as well as being the only male in the community.

A slip in the time stream abruptly changes the community of witches and threatens to end their rule forever.

I did enjoy this book, the witches were not the usual pointy hat variety and their magic was out of the ordinary as well. Shape changing, teleporting, mind reading–all these were part of their abilities. I felt it sad that the burgeoning love between Kitaya and Joshua was frowned on by the witches but felt the frustration of Kitaya was excellently portrayed in her thoughts.

It was a shame that I kept losing the thread when a wrong word, usually wrong tense, popped into the story. It broke my concentration and detracted from the story.

Although mainly from Kitaya’s point of view, there are several other characters who have their say. I really liked the child prodigy medic Karin who arrived with the returning Allied forces. She brought a light humor into what could have become another battle scene which wouldn’t have really fitted with the magical aspect.

On the whole this book is a good read and ends with an unspoken promise of more books to come.