The strongest part of this book was its premise: a teenage witch named Darlena is feeling the pressure to choose between the 3 traditional paths of magic: white, green, or black. But when she is suddenly forced to come to an abrupt decision, she blurts out the first thing that comes to mind--"Red!" It turns out that Red is chaos magic, a super rare path for witches to take. Now that Darlena has become one of the only Red witches in the world, a variety of forces seek to manipulate her for her own gain. Darlena must explore and learn to understand her quickly growing power, all while navigating a complicated love life, her home life, getting kicked out of school, and the frequency with which goddesses keep popping up in her bedroom. While the premise of the story was strong, a few other areas were underdeveloped. First of all, it is repeatedly stated that Black magic is not bad or evil, but the limited descriptions of it and the actions of the one Black witch character make that difficult to believe. If Black magic is not evil/harmful, then what is it? This would be a very interesting topic and could have been fleshed out a lot more. Many of the secondary characters are flat, especially the human villain of the story. She appears to be motivated solely by greed and jealousy, but her actions are pretty extreme not to afford a more in-depth and complex explanationBut my biggest critique is the way the novel ended. The "final battle" scene is a little anti-climactic and is over rather quickly. But aside from that,within the last quarter of the book, it becomes apparent that this book is setting up for a sequel. From that point on, the story ceases to be substantive in itself, and everything besides the final battle is totally geared toward setting up the events of the next book. The ending feels more like the beginning of the next story instead of the end of this one. While I don't generally mind cliff-hangers or books that leave you begging for more, I feel that Daughter of Chaos took setting up for the sequel to such an extent that it no longer is able to totally stand on its own. Darlena is normal girl… well, witch. She doesn't know what path to follow yet: White, Green or Black. The Withe's the good one, the Black is the kind of bad one (not actually bad but not very loved by all witches) and the Green that's a balance between the previous two.When Hecate, Queen of Witches, appears at her place and demands her to chose a path, Darlena panics and choose a path that she thought didn't exist: Red.At the beginning she's freaked out because she gets expelled from her school and her parents treat her like she was a bomb. But the she begins to learn a little bit about what Red magic really is: Chaos.Darlena has to face the decisions she made and choose a patron that will be her teacher and will help her along the way, but that's a bit difficult when all the gods are fighting for her attention and some of them are even willing to harm her in order to be her patron. Let's begin this saying that I liked Darlena, she's a little impulsive and sometimes she doesn't think well the decisions she make but I liked her character. I kind of expected some of the plot twists this book has, but it was still good, with a lot of action and that.I really like Justin but he confuses me a little with his moods. Rochelle's pretty cool with all her dark magic and so. Darlena's mother plays an important role and I like her character too.My favorite godess were Aphrodite (even though she's a little bit too obsessed with love) and Persephone, I've liked her even before I read the book, I think she's pretty cool. I also loved Hades, he's cute.Anyway, the book is fast to read because it's intriguing and keeps you wanting more, it's not that long and has a fair end. I like that it doesn't leave you incomplete like others do even though it doesn't answer many of my questions.I gave it a 4 because I didn't like the final end, it was quick and without a lot of harm or action. I hoped there would be more blood and more disaster since she's the Daughter of Chaos, but well…I really recommend it if you like books with action, a little bit of romance and that talk about these different kind of witches that have gods as patrons, that's a new idea and it's definitely awesome, I think that was my favorite part: the originality with the gods.
What do You think about Daughter Of Chaos (2014)?
Loved it! I always love a good witch story and all the mythology Jen added in was awesome :D
—ummer
Right from the beginning I was sucked into Darlena's life! I can't wait until book 2!
—Wawa
