“Knowledge is valuable, but imagination is invaluable.” –
James Patterson
Witch
& Wizard by James Patterson is a fantasy series that depicts the
persecution of two magical siblings by the new totalitarian government, ‘New
Order’. The Gift is the second instalment
and it follows Whit and Wisty Allgood as they figure out how to better control
and use their magic while trying to save everyone endangered – their parents,
Whit’s girlfriend and all the brainwashed children. Meanwhile, the tyrannical
leader is on the hunt for the Allgood siblings in order to take their gifts and
be able to control everything and everyone.
I received this book as a gift
and I’ve really enjoyed reading it. I can’t wait to read the next book, to
figure out all the cryptic clues. However, I do feel that The Gift went in a circle; I don’t really know more than I what I
got from the first few pages. It seemed that Patterson was trying too hard to
extend the plot so that it could become a lengthy series; at one point, the
plot became Whit and Wisty running away, then getting caught by the villain
then escaping then getting caught – and it just wasn’t going anywhere! Really,
none of the answers proposed at the beginning were answered. Maybe, this was
because I skipped the first book and went straight into the second; the lack of
background information could have hindered my immersion into the story. However,
I don’t think this was too big of a problem as I didn’t even realise this was
the second book until I started writing this post. Patterson managed to catch
all the readers up to the full story quite easily, as there were so many
references to the past, which I’m assuming mostly happened in the first book.
