“I do have a secret, though. A secret
so dark, so hopeless, so absurd that I can never share it with anyone. It is a secret story that I tell myself when I’m
in bed at night. My father is not evil
at all; he is powerful and strong. And he
cares about me… he loves me… And I lie in bed and imagine that one night he
will come for me and we will fly away through the night together.”
Imagine a world where everyone is a witch. They are either a black or white, bad or
good. Now imagine a dangerous life where
you are segregated based on the color of your witchcraft, of your family’s
witchcraft. If your white, then you make
the rules, after all you’re the good kind of witch. It doesn’t matter if you kill witches, torture
them, and create laws that affect children of mixed witchcraft, because you are
doing it for the good of everyone, for the good of the world!
That is the life that our main character, Nathan lives
in. He is the son of one of the most
dangerous and loathsome black witch of them all; however, he is also the son of
a white witch. Marcus, his father, is
known for killing witches and stealing their gifts but when he killed Nathan’s
Mother’s husband it wasn’t to steal the man’s power… it was to away his
wife. Years later, now that Marcus is on
the run and Nathan’s mother is dead, Nathan must deal with the fall out of his
parents’ tryst.
This is such a captivating story of racism, hidden in the
depths of magic, but still racism. A
story of segregation, and the misguided illusion of social justice. I cannot wait to pick up the next book to
find out how Nathan will get under the white witches’ skins and save the day
and the girl.
Thank You Edelweiss!
4 out of 5 stars.
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