Remarkably, this is a book I chose not to finish after getting halfway into it. Take my advice and don’t waste your time. I’ve chosen not to finish books at the rate of about 1 per 500, so you get the gist. It is a fanciful story about the taking over of the world, as we know it, by the New Order. But, their progression towards total control is thwarted by a family whose teenage children, Whit and Wisty, are respectively a wizard and witch. As the teens get seized from their home in the middle of the night by storm troopers, they discover for the first time that they have magical powers. In jail, they learn more about how to make use of those powers to avoid their scheduled execution. That’s enough, but I’ll leave you with one line of dialogue in which Whit has just been saved by the spirit of his girlfriend on earth, a teen who was killed by the New Order and now appears in spectral form. Whit says, “I reached out to try to hug Celia in a moment of relief that we’d made it through to the other side. It didn’t matter how awkward and ridiculous it was trying to hug a ghost. That’s the cool thing about love. In my opinion, anyway.” After that line, I got through a couple more pages before giving up the ghost of this book.
West Coast Don
I tend to avoid books jointly authored by a name author and a no-name. I tried some stories with Clancy's name on the cover that were never as good as a Clancy-written book. I feel your pain. you're thinking 'now there goes x hours of my time i'll never get back.'
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