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School Library Journal
Reviewed on April 1, 2014 | Grades 9 and Up
Gr 8 Up—Good witch or bad witch? This is the question that plagues 17-year-old Nathan, the product of two witches, one white, and one the infamous, hated black witch, Marcus. Readers will be intrigued by this work from the very beginning, as it opens in medias res, with Nathan living in a cage but attempting at every opportunity to escape, being submitted to beatings and ill treatment from a strange woman. Soon, flashbacks reveal Nathan's backstory: his precarious position in society is a result of his mixed parentage, and t...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on March 1, 2014
"Good" White Witches living in the modern world use their gifts to hunt down and kill "evil" Black Witches. Nathan is an anomaly as the only "Half Code," the son of a White Witch mother and Black Witch father. The novel begins with teenage Nathan a prisoner in a cage, and flashbacks reveal his early life in England living with his grandmother and half-siblings among White Witches who ostracize and persecute him for being the son of Marcus, the "most wanted Black Witch," w...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Guide
Reviewed on January 1, 2014
The novel begins with Nathan--son of a "good" White Witch mother and an "evil" Black Witch father--a prisoner in a cage. Flash...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
