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Thirteen year-old Kara Westfall has been taught all her life to fear two things: Witches, and the otherworldly forest known as the Thickety. However, the discovery of her late mother's magical grimoire spurs Kara onto an adventure that will teach her there's more to witchcraft than she's been told.
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* DualAgeModes: Mary Kettle's body changes to a random age everyday without effecting her personality.
* HappyFunBall: Deprived of her grimoire, Mary uses enchanted toys as weapons and tools.
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* {{Oculothorax}}: Kara is guided by a raven-like creature with no head and a giant eye in its chest. It communicates by changing the color of its eye.
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* {{Oculothorax}}: Kara is guided by a Watcher, a raven-like Thickety creature with no head and a giant eye in its chest. It communicates by changing the color of its eye.
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* PlantPeople: Sordyr WasOnceAMan, now he's a humanoid tree with oozing black mud for innards who can't physically separate from the ground.
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* SealedEvilInACan: Sordyr is the Evil, the Thickety is his Can.
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* SealedEvilInACan: Sordyr is the Evil, the Thickety is his Can.
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* {{Transflormation}}: Sordyr creates his minions by feeding seeds of his essence to people and animals, turning them into wooden skeletons covered in flowers and other plantlife.
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* ConscienceMakesYouGoBack: Kara's father insists they flee the island to escape [[spoiler:Grace Stone]]'s magic rampage, but Kara has come to understand the villagers who mistreat them are more ignorant and afraid than evil and decides that's enough to deserve rescuing.
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* CruelTwistEnding: ''A Path Begins'' ends with [[spoiler:a mob led by [[DemonicPossession Clen in their father's body]] driving Kara and Taff into the Thickety and Sordyr's clutches.]]
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* CruelTwistEnding: ''A Path Begins'' ends with [[spoiler:a Kara heroically saving De'Noren, [[spoiler: only for a mob led by [[DemonicPossession Clen in their her father's body]] driving Kara to drive her and Taff into the Thickety and Sordyr's clutches.]]
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* GodzillaThreshold: In the climax of ''A Path Begins'', Fen'de Stone calls upon Kara, whom he just imprisoned and interrogated, to [[spoiler:save De'Noren from a power-mad Grace when his approved methods don't work.]]
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* GodzillaThreshold: In the climax of ''A Path Begins'', Fen'de Stone calls upon Kara, whom he just imprisoned and interrogated, to [[spoiler:save save De'Noren from a [[spoiler:a power-mad Grace when his approved methods don't work.]]
* HostageForMacGuffin: [[spoiler:Grace has a local boy lure Kara away while Simon kidnaps Taff to exchange him for the grimoire.]]
* HostageForMacGuffin: [[spoiler:Grace has a local boy lure Kara away while Simon kidnaps Taff to exchange him for the grimoire.]]
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Twelve year-old Kara Westfall has been taught all her life to fear two things: Witches, and the otherworldly forest known as the Thickety. However, the discovery of her late mother's magical grimoire spurs Kara onto an adventure that will teach her there's more to witchcraft than she's been told.
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* TheBeastmaster: Kara's magic is the summoning and commanding of animals, insects and creatures of the Thickety.
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* CreateYourOwnVillain: [[spoiler:Fen'de Stone considered Grace his greatest shame and harshly disciplined her for the simplest things. When Grace takes the black grimoire, she decides if her father thinks she's a wicked witch [[ThenLetMeBeEvil then she may as well be one]].]]
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* CreateYourOwnVillain: [[spoiler:Fen'de Stone considered Grace his greatest shame and harshly disciplined her for the simplest things. When Grace takes the black grimoire, she decides if her fatherthinks she's a wicked witch wants to persecute witches [[ThenLetMeBeEvil then she may as well be one]].she'll give him a witch]].]]
* CruelTwistEnding: ''A Path Begins'' ends with [[spoiler:a mob led by [[DemonicPossession Clen in their father's body]] driving Kara and Taff into the Thickety and Sordyr's clutches.]]
* CreateYourOwnVillain: [[spoiler:Fen'de Stone considered Grace his greatest shame and harshly disciplined her for the simplest things. When Grace takes the black grimoire, she decides if her father
* CruelTwistEnding: ''A Path Begins'' ends with [[spoiler:a mob led by [[DemonicPossession Clen in their father's body]] driving Kara and Taff into the Thickety and Sordyr's clutches.]]
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* PersonalityPowers: The kind of magic a witch uses reflects her talents and values. Kara the animal whisperer becomes TheBeastmaster whereas [[spoiler:Grace the ControlFreak]] favors spells that turn people into her mindless slaves. [[spoiler:Kara's mother Helena could heal wounds and grow plants, which proves she was ultimately a good person.]]
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* PersonalityPowers: The kind of magic a witch uses reflects her talents and values. Kara the animal whisperer becomes TheBeastmaster whereas [[spoiler:Grace the ControlFreak]] favors spells that turn people into her mindless slaves. [[spoiler:Kara's mother Helena could heal wounds and grow plants, which ultimately proves she was ultimately a good person.]]
* SelfDisposingVillain: [[spoiler:Realizing that Kara won't fight her to the death, Grace commits SpitefulSuicide to deny her rival a happy ending by casting her last spell: Kara's father is possessed by Timoth Clen and turns De'Noren against her, leaving the Thickety her only refuge.]]
* SelfDisposingVillain: [[spoiler:Realizing that Kara won't fight her to the death, Grace commits SpitefulSuicide to deny her rival a happy ending by casting her last spell: Kara's father is possessed by Timoth Clen and turns De'Noren against her, leaving the Thickety her only refuge.]]
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* SpellBook: All witches have their own grimoire and every spell cast uses up a page.
* WickedWitch: Timoth Clen's exploits are full of evil witches he killed.
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* SpellBook: All witches have their own grimoire and every spell cast uses up a page.
page. The golden rule is to not use the last page, or [[DealWithTheDevil the pact]] will be fulfilled and the grimoire will collect the witch's soul.
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* VainSorceress: [[spoiler:At the height of her power, Grace turns her [[WhiteHairBlackHeart stark white hair]] blonde and gives herself two healthy legs.]]
* VillainTakesAnInterest: Sordyr senses great potential in Kara and tries to lure her to his side.
* WickedWitch: Timoth Clen's exploits are full of evil witches he killed.
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* VillainTakesAnInterest: Sordyr senses great potential in Kara and tries to lure her to his side.
* WickedWitch: Timoth Clen's exploits are full of evil witches he killed.
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* BirthDeathJuxtaposition: Kara's mother gave birth to Taff the same night she was executed.
* CreateYourOwnVillain: [[spoiler:Fen'de Stone considered Grace his greatest shame and harshly disciplined her for the simplest things. When Grace takes the black grimoire, she decides if her father thinks she's a wicked witch [[ThenLetMeBeEvil then she may as well be one]].]]
* CreateYourOwnVillain: [[spoiler:Fen'de Stone considered Grace his greatest shame and harshly disciplined her for the simplest things. When Grace takes the black grimoire, she decides if her father thinks she's a wicked witch [[ThenLetMeBeEvil then she may as well be one]].]]
* DumbMuscle: As Grace cannot physically intimidate her victims, she uses the giant boy Simon Lodder as her toadie. Simon used to be a normal boy, but getting lost in the Thickety traumatized him into a lumbering imbecile.
* KidsAreCruel: Grace Stone is Kara's age and a budding psychopath. She wears a sweet and demure mask, but she enjoys causing pain and can turn violent when she doesn't get what she wants. [[spoiler:The black grimoire's influence turns her into a tyrant who kills ForTheEvulz.]]
* {{Oculothorax}}: Kara is guided by a raven-like creature with no head and a giant eye in its chest. It communicates by changing the color of its eye.
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* TheSociopath: Grace Stone wears a sweet and demure mask, but she enjoys causing pain and can turn violent when she doesn't get what she wants. [[spoiler:The black grimoire's influence turns her into a tyrant who kills ForTheEvulz.]]
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* YouMeanXmas: The Children of the Fold's Shadow Festival is pretty much Halloween.
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''The Thickety'' is a children's DarkFantasy novel series by American author J. A. White.
Twelve year-old Kara Westfall has been taught all her life to fear two things: Witches, and the otherworldly forest known as the Thickety. However, the discovery of her late mother's magical grimoire spurs Kara onto an adventure that will teach her there's more to witchcraft than she's been told.
The books included in this series are:
#''A Path Begins'' (2014)
#''The Whispering Trees'' (2015)
#''Well of Witches'' (2016)
#''The Last Spell'' (2017)
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!!This work contains examples of:
* AddictiveMagic: The black grimoire's power is an obvious allegory for drugs. It gives abused outcast Kara a sense of power and an outlet for her frustration, but it becomes physically painful to go without casting spells and more so to be away from the book. She even grows possessive of it and gets paranoid about it getting stolen.
* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: As the daughter of a convicted witch, the villagers treat Kara like a time bomb and allow her and her family to suffer in poverty.
* AlphaBitch: Grace Stone is the daughter of the Fen'de, De'Noren's religious leader and highest authority, and has the villagers' tripping over themselves to please.
* BeliefMakesYouStupid: [[spoiler:Fen'de Stone thinks a sermon can stop Grace's grunts from beating him to death. He is extremely wrong.]]
* BigSisterInstinct: Kara would brave any danger for her younger brother and LivingEmotionalCrutch Taff.
* CultOfPersonality: The Children of the Fold is a Puritan-esque cult that praises TheWitchHunter Timoth Clen and follow his collection of rules called The Path.
* DelicateAndSickly: Taff has been weak and prone to coughing fits from birth. [[spoiler:Kara manages to cure him with a healing spell.]]
* DontGoInTheWoods: The Thickety is not your standard creepy forest. It is ruled over by Sordyr the demon, full of nightmarish monsters, and grows so rapidly that people employed to clear it barely make one dent per day.
* DrunkWithPower: Magic is not inherently evil but a witch lacking in HeroicWillpower can lose herself in it.
* EvilCripple: Grace's leg was deformed at birth and she uses a peg leg with a cane. She's cruel, selfish and manipulative while playing the role of a WheelchairWoobie in public.
* TheFundamentalist: Fen'de Stone truly believes the only way to live righteously is to follow Timoth Clen's commandments to the letter, denouncing anything abnormal as magic and purging it. [[AbusiveParents His daughter is not safe from his intolerance]].
* GodzillaThreshold: In the climax of ''A Path Begins'', Fen'de Stone calls upon Kara, whom he just imprisoned and interrogated, to [[spoiler:save De'Noren from a power-mad Grace when his approved methods don't work.]]
* InternalizedCategorism: Kara grew up hearing that witches are evil incarnate, so it's no surprise she worries that she's evil when her natural talent for magic is revealed.
* InvisibleToNormals: A grimoire's pages appear blank to a person with no magical potential.
* MadnessMantra: After his wife was executed, Kara's father became a borderline EmptyShell who scribbles "Forgive Me" over and over in notebooks between periods of catatonia.
* OnlyFriend: Lucas Walker doesn't buy into the rumors surrounding Kara and is instead her loyal companion. When she admits her witchcraft to him, Lucas finds it easier to believe witches can be good than believe Kara is bad.
* PersonalityPowers: The kind of magic a witch uses reflects her talents and values. Kara the animal whisperer becomes TheBeastmaster whereas [[spoiler:Grace the ControlFreak]] favors spells that turn people into her mindless slaves. [[spoiler:Kara's mother Helena could heal wounds and grow plants, which proves she was ultimately a good person.]]
* SmallSecludedWorld: De'Noren is on an island cut off from the rest of the world. The Children of the Fold view the outside world as a den of rampant sin, while outsiders view them as religious nuts.
* TheSociopath: Grace Stone wears a sweet and demure mask, but she enjoys causing pain and can turn violent when she doesn't get what she wants. [[spoiler:The black grimoire's influence turns her into a tyrant who kills ForTheEvulz.]]
* SpellBook: All witches have their own grimoire and every spell cast uses up a page.
* WickedWitch: Timoth Clen's exploits are full of evil witches he killed.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Kara's mother sealed her fate when [[spoiler:she tried to share the wonders of magic with her best friends. One couldn't handle the power and killed herself and her husband, the crime Helena was found guilty of.]]
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Twelve year-old Kara Westfall has been taught all her life to fear two things: Witches, and the otherworldly forest known as the Thickety. However, the discovery of her late mother's magical grimoire spurs Kara onto an adventure that will teach her there's more to witchcraft than she's been told.
The books included in this series are:
#''A Path Begins'' (2014)
#''The Whispering Trees'' (2015)
#''Well of Witches'' (2016)
#''The Last Spell'' (2017)
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!!This work contains examples of:
* AddictiveMagic: The black grimoire's power is an obvious allegory for drugs. It gives abused outcast Kara a sense of power and an outlet for her frustration, but it becomes physically painful to go without casting spells and more so to be away from the book. She even grows possessive of it and gets paranoid about it getting stolen.
* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: As the daughter of a convicted witch, the villagers treat Kara like a time bomb and allow her and her family to suffer in poverty.
* AlphaBitch: Grace Stone is the daughter of the Fen'de, De'Noren's religious leader and highest authority, and has the villagers' tripping over themselves to please.
* BeliefMakesYouStupid: [[spoiler:Fen'de Stone thinks a sermon can stop Grace's grunts from beating him to death. He is extremely wrong.]]
* BigSisterInstinct: Kara would brave any danger for her younger brother and LivingEmotionalCrutch Taff.
* CultOfPersonality: The Children of the Fold is a Puritan-esque cult that praises TheWitchHunter Timoth Clen and follow his collection of rules called The Path.
* DelicateAndSickly: Taff has been weak and prone to coughing fits from birth. [[spoiler:Kara manages to cure him with a healing spell.]]
* DontGoInTheWoods: The Thickety is not your standard creepy forest. It is ruled over by Sordyr the demon, full of nightmarish monsters, and grows so rapidly that people employed to clear it barely make one dent per day.
* DrunkWithPower: Magic is not inherently evil but a witch lacking in HeroicWillpower can lose herself in it.
* EvilCripple: Grace's leg was deformed at birth and she uses a peg leg with a cane. She's cruel, selfish and manipulative while playing the role of a WheelchairWoobie in public.
* TheFundamentalist: Fen'de Stone truly believes the only way to live righteously is to follow Timoth Clen's commandments to the letter, denouncing anything abnormal as magic and purging it. [[AbusiveParents His daughter is not safe from his intolerance]].
* GodzillaThreshold: In the climax of ''A Path Begins'', Fen'de Stone calls upon Kara, whom he just imprisoned and interrogated, to [[spoiler:save De'Noren from a power-mad Grace when his approved methods don't work.]]
* InternalizedCategorism: Kara grew up hearing that witches are evil incarnate, so it's no surprise she worries that she's evil when her natural talent for magic is revealed.
* InvisibleToNormals: A grimoire's pages appear blank to a person with no magical potential.
* MadnessMantra: After his wife was executed, Kara's father became a borderline EmptyShell who scribbles "Forgive Me" over and over in notebooks between periods of catatonia.
* OnlyFriend: Lucas Walker doesn't buy into the rumors surrounding Kara and is instead her loyal companion. When she admits her witchcraft to him, Lucas finds it easier to believe witches can be good than believe Kara is bad.
* PersonalityPowers: The kind of magic a witch uses reflects her talents and values. Kara the animal whisperer becomes TheBeastmaster whereas [[spoiler:Grace the ControlFreak]] favors spells that turn people into her mindless slaves. [[spoiler:Kara's mother Helena could heal wounds and grow plants, which proves she was ultimately a good person.]]
* SmallSecludedWorld: De'Noren is on an island cut off from the rest of the world. The Children of the Fold view the outside world as a den of rampant sin, while outsiders view them as religious nuts.
* TheSociopath: Grace Stone wears a sweet and demure mask, but she enjoys causing pain and can turn violent when she doesn't get what she wants. [[spoiler:The black grimoire's influence turns her into a tyrant who kills ForTheEvulz.]]
* SpellBook: All witches have their own grimoire and every spell cast uses up a page.
* WickedWitch: Timoth Clen's exploits are full of evil witches he killed.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Kara's mother sealed her fate when [[spoiler:she tried to share the wonders of magic with her best friends. One couldn't handle the power and killed herself and her husband, the crime Helena was found guilty of.]]
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