The Scent of Magic. Cliff McNish

The Doompell trilogy is full of the magic that Cliff McNish writes into his books, they are full of mystery and excitment from the first page. As the first book starts Rachel and Eric are normal children but as soon as they are pulled through the door of Ithrea by the witch they start to discover their inner magic. Rachel discovers her magic first, discovering her great abilty of unusual shifting and shape-changing. Eric takes longer to find out his macical power which is called the fatal gift...

The doompell trilogy is exciting, magical and full of brilliant action!Rachel and Eric are ripped away through their celler wall and into another world. The Witch, Dragwena has taken them away, like many other children. The Witch tests Rachel and Eric and soon finds out that Rachel is extroardinarilly gifted. Rachel can transform herself into a anything an animal a feather anything. she can fly on an owl, fly and shift.Eric is also gifted, he cannot do the things Rachel can but he can 'delete' spells a gift no other children can do.The Witch is planning to use these new chidren for her own dreadful purposes. But the Witches plans may not suceed.And for the Witches slaves, Rachel is the one that can help. This is my Second most favourite book.I like this book because it makes you wont to keep reading it on and on, you dont wont to stop. It is full of action and it is very imaginative.It is magical and anything can happen.