The Truth Spell (Werewolf High #1)
by Anita Oh
Release Date: November 2015
Summary from Goodreads:
As soon as I stepped onto the grounds of Amaris High, I knew I'd made a big mistake. I could never fit in at such a snobbish school – I was more IT girl than "it girl". But then I saw him.
Sam Spencer. My childhood best friend. But it couldn't be. Sam Spencer had died three years ago, on the night that changed everything. I need to know what happened, why he's suddenly not dead and is hanging out with a bunch of rich kids.
When the school is hit by a truth spell, it seems like the perfect chance to find out what Sam and his creepy new friends are hiding, but the weirder things get, the less I'm sure I want to know. Even for Sam, even for the free food, Amaris High might be more trouble than it's worth.
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“Take
heed!” a voice boomed out.
All
of us jumped and spun toward the voice.
Someone had clearly slipped something funny into the water supply,
because the statue of Professor Amaris had stood up from his Buddha pose and
was pointing right at us. The entire
garden was lit with a blue glow.
“Take
heed!” he repeated in his booming voice.
“Those of you with secrets in your heart and falsehood on your
tongue. A light has arrived to shine on
your darkness, to clear away your shadows.
There will be nowhere for you to hide.”
The
blue light grew brighter and brighter, until it was blinding. It condensed for a moment into a small, impossibly
bright ball, then exploded outward, like thousands of tiny blue fireflies.
“Well,
that was weird.”
“Nobody
speak until we’re back at the house,” Tennyson Wilde said quietly to Sam and
the others. “The commoner is right,
something strange is happening.”
Q. How did you come up with the idea for
Werewolf High?
A. I really
wanted to create a world that I’d enjoy hanging out in. When I think about my favourite stories,
they’re mostly based in schools – stuff like Harry Potter and Buffy,
as the most obvious examples. I think
schools are a great setting because you’re forced into constant contact with
all sorts of different people, which mostly sucks in real life but is great for
creating dramatic scenarios in a book. Plus, I love werewolves! So it seemed like a good idea to combine the
two.
Q. The series is Werewolf High but the first
book is called “The Truth Spell” – that sounds more like witches than wolves!
A. The
werewolf pack is at the heart of the series and the main story focuses on the
wolves, but when you throw witchcraft into the mix, there’s no end to the fun
stuff that can happen. When I was first
developing the series, I decided I’d like to play around with a different trope
in each book, body swaps and soul bonds and so on, and a truth spell was
perfect for the first book, when everyone still has something they want to
hide.
Q. Is the main character a werewolf?
A. Lucy is
an ordinary human girl. She comes from a
poor family where she’s had to take responsibility for her younger siblings, so
she’s had to be a practical, logical sort of person, and she finds it hard to
accept magic and werewolves. She also
struggles being at such an elite boarding school, where people throw money
around. It’s a totally different world
for her.
Q. What do you find the hardest part of the
writing process?
A. I have a
chronic illness, so everything is hard all the time, but the hardest thing is
keeping to a schedule. Just sitting down
to do something every day is really difficult, sometimes impossible, but if you
do a little bit and then a little bit more, gradually it builds up. I’ve spent a lot of time feeling sorry for
myself and making excuses but it gets to the point where if you want to do
something, you have to do it. My
sister’s a writer and she said to me, “quit your dillydallying and write your
book already, sheesh!”. Most people I
know are like “one day I will do this” or “I’ll do that someday”, but if she
wants to do something, she just does it – travel the world or become a writer
or whatever. When someone like that is
standing in front of you, it’s hard to make excuses for yourself.
Q. What do you do for fun?
A. Mostly,
I chase my dog around the house while pretending to be T-Rex. She’s a beagle, so she doesn’t know that the
T-Rex has tiny little arms that can’t possibly catch her, so she’s super fast
and good at evasive maneuvers but I will get her one day!
About the Author
After several years in the warm, comforting cocoon of fandom, Anita has decided to see what's up with this real world she's heard about. Judgment is reserved until more information can be gathered.
Anita likes dogs, naps, food, and Japanese idol group Arashi. Everything else can be improved when combined with these four things.
Anita lives with a grumpy beagle who bosses her around terribly, and won't even snuggle.
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