I have recently read The Witch and Wizard by James Patterson. All I can say is that it is an amazing book that you just don’t want to put down, there is something different and interesting on every page.
What would happen if everything in life was normal, except for the fact that your girlfriend has disappeared, until one night you go to bed and get woken to soldiers being in your home taking you from your parents accusing you and your bother of being a witch and wizard? Well that is what happens to Wisty (Wisteria Allgood) and her brother Whit (Whitford Allgood). They were rudely awoken by the New Order (N.O.) soldiers, ripped from their parents and jailed, accused of being witch and wizard. They were each allowed to bring one item with them so their parents gave Wisty an old drum stick and Whit a diary that had never been used, but why those two items?
The New Order took over the world taking children from their families throwing them away in jail, killing them or turning them into their puppet soldiers. It happened to a school mate and enemy of Whit and Wisty named Byron Swain who was also at their home the night they were accused and called dangerous. You also find out that Celia Whit’s girlfriend was murdered also being accused but comes to Whit as a ghost to help them out.
Come to find out Wisty and Whit are witch and wizard. Random things appear in the blank diary given to Whit and Wisty starts to glow and float in her sleep. There is nothing like going from being a normal family to being jailed and finding out you are a witch or wizard and can do amazing things but they mostly happen on accident, like turning Byron Swain into the weasel he acts like. Or being able to escape and finding Garfunkel’s store has become home to all the kids that got away and are trying to save the rest running from the One who is the One and his New Order soldiers.
Do they find their parents and are they alive? How many children do they help and just how powerful do their powers get? You will just have to read the book to find out! I'm off to start the second book, The Gift, and see how much trouble brother and sister can get into.
