Witch and Wizard

I finally got my hands on this book! Yeah, I heard that it was awful but I wouldn’t believe it. I mean, this is the guy who wrote Maximum Ride! (I know, I know, that book had it’s own problems, but that is for another post. And I still love it despite the flaws.) I’m sorry to all you Max fans… This book was pretty bad. The book is in some alternate future where this New Order takes over the country (I don’t know what country) and makes magic illegal. Even though nobody believes in it. Then the main characters are taken away to prison and accused of being witches and wizards. It is an okay premise. The problem is that you can’t tell the difference between the two main characters. The chapters are, on average, two pages long. That was fine in Maximum Ride because there was only one Narrator. But there are two in this book and they both talk exactly like Max. And think like her. And act like her. Even though one is a guy.

The author, I doubt that it was Jaypat, used the juvenile technique of making something completely random happen to a character when he couldn’t get the person across a room. For example…  Author doesn’t know how to make a conversation end- makes Wisty catch on fire. Author wonders if readers are getting annoyed at the way all the authority figures are acting the same way- makes Wisty catch on fire. Author can’t figure out a way to save all the little children from the prison- makes Wisty catch on fire. I swear to you that I am not exaggerating.

The book got better near the end, and I will read the next one, but it really was a disappointment.

abi