![]() ![]() It's told in the present tense, in short, breathy, vivid sentences. In a nod to that other great franchise of our time, the vampiric Twilight, this is facilitated by drinking the blood of one of your relatives. ![]() ![]() Nathan is half Black, half White, and since his goodly mother has committed suicide, and his father is the worst Black Witch known to witchkind (he goes one better than Voldemort by eating his victims), the White Council is agog to know which way Nathan will turn when he reaches 17, the age when a witch is given the three gifts that complete his or her transition into fully-fledged witchhood. If you are in Gryffindor house at JK Rowling's magical school, Hogwarts, you are courageous if you are, in Sally Green's much-talked-about debut, a Black Witch, then you are, by definition, entirely bad. C hildren's fiction holds certain themes dear: trapped, orphaned protagonists at the mercy of darker forces hereditary talents uncovered as the hero grows older a dualistic view of the world and a categorisation of personalities into easily applied labels. ![]()
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