The Initiation

This is the first book in The Secret Circle series. Cassie and her mother have returned to New England, Cassie not knowing that her mother has ulterior motives. They live in New Salem in an area of extremely old homes.

Her introduction to the new school is rough and extremely unfriendly. She's bullied by a group of people that almost everyone, including the teachers, is afraid of, a group called The Club.

Cassie ends up at first on the fringes, but the death of an potential member of the club results in her being kidnapped and initiated into the club. She quickly sees that some members are good, some pursue a course that is bordering on evil, if not actually evil, and at least one doesn't seem to care which way things go at all.

One of the bad girls even ends up blackmailing Cassie, and making her basically her servant girl.

The story itself is interesting and not bad, as long as you don't really start to think too much about what is happening.

First, her mother apparently has planned this and is using Cassie. Second, Cassie is kidnapped from her home and taken to the initiation. To me, that's kind of an act of violence. Third, The Club seems to be a very strange Wiccan group. Granted, they are teenagers, but it is painfully obvious that some of them follow the path of light while others are willing to follow the path of darkness, and I just don't see how that kind of a group could really be stable and last very long. The members seem to know enough about witchcraft to recognize the idea of a Book of Shadow and ritual instruments, so I would assume they have studied witchcraft somewhat and are not totally ignorant of the Wiccan Rede and the three-fold rule (whatever you do to anyone else will be done to you three fold, and that includes doing something bad. You'd get back something three times as bad as what you caused), so this is why I don't understand how their group could stay together.

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