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Jessie never suspected that witches are real, or that she is one, in the start of this paranormal suspense saga from #1 New York Times bestselling author Christopher Pike.
Heading off for a weekend in Las Vegas with her friends, Jessie Ralle has only one worry—how to make it through the road trip in the same car with her Ex, Jimmy Kelter. The guy who broke her heart five months ago when he dumped her for no reason. The guy who’s finally ready to tell her why he did it, because he wants her back.
But what Jessie doesn’t realize is that Jimmy is the least of her problems.
In Las Vegas she meets Russ, a mesmerizing stranger who shows her how to gamble, and who never seems to lose. Curious, Jessie wants to know his secret, and in response, alone in his hotel room, he teaches her a game that opens a door to another reality.
To Witch World.
Suddenly Jessie discovers that she’s stumbled into a world where some people can do the impossible, and others may not even be human. Are there really witches? Is she one of them?
Originally published as Witch World, this classic edge-of-your-seat thrill ride from #1 bestselling author Christopher Pike keeps you guessing right until the last page.
- Sales Rank: #794528 in Books
- Published on: 2014-08-19
- Released on: 2014-08-19
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.25" h x 1.50" w x 5.50" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 560 pages
From School Library Journal
Gr 10 Up-Jessie Ralle starts out as a typical teenager with a complicated love life. She and some friends, including her ex, all head to Las Vegas to celebrate graduation. Strange things start to happen, culminating in Jessie's getting murdered and mysteriously brought back to life-with superpowers. As if that weren't enough, she finds herself in a parallel version of Vegas. Luckily, her long-lost father turns up to explain everything. Less luckily, there is a lot of explaining to do. It turns out that Jessie is a witch, or a human with superpowered genetics. Now that she has "connected" to her true nature (by dying), she will start experiencing life in dual universes: one day in the regular world followed by the same day in the witch world. There are also two versions of herself, Jessie and Jessica, and Jessica, the witch version, has a baby named Lara who has been kidnapped by a rival group of witches who are trying to take over the world and . . . so on. The complications of the two universes and the fact that all of the characters have two versions of themselves make the already-convoluted plot completely unmanageable. Also off-putting is the way that the rules of Witch World seem to be inconsistently applied and the characters, including the protagonist, are frequently unsympathetic. Though the book is written for teens, the characters talk and act like adults, and there is no shortage of sex and violence, making the novel most appropriate for older teens. Even the most dedicated Pike fans may have trouble making their way through this messy tome.-Eliza Langhans, Hatfield Public Library, MAα(c) Copyright 2011. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
From Booklist
There are two worlds, each mirroring the other—almost. One is populated by humans, the other by witches; one plays the card game Twenty-One, the other symbolically plays Twenty-Two, known as Red Queen. Jessie Ralle is introduced to this bifurcated world during her high-school graduation trip to Las Vegas, a trip that effectively murders her and brings her back to life not only as a witch but as a mother to a nearly perfect witch child coveted by the evil Lapras, one of the two covens within Witch World. It’s another Pike roller coaster ride, with Jessie plunging into dangerous situations and scrambling back out through her supernatural witch powers, only to plunge into yet another bizarre, terrifying mess. The Las Vegas glitter and gambling is juxtaposed with the barren desert, much like the good Tar witches morphing into the evil Lapras. The novel will force readers through a tug-of-war between two worlds and the powers that connect them: good and evil, pain and pleasure, love and hate. HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: Pike is the New York Times best-selling author of the Thirst series, and fans will be clamoring for his latest. Grades 9-12. --Frances Bradburn
Review
"[A] suspenseful thriller, with frank handling of such topics as sex, alcohol, violence, gambling, and witchcraft...a well-written, interesting, unpredictable story."--VOYA
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful.
Pike has created an amazing parallel world!
By Darlene
Witch World completely sucked me in!
At the outset, we meet Jessie Ralle and she is reflecting back on her life. She discovered that she was a witch at the age of 18 just after graduation, when her class took a weekend celebratory trip to Las Vegas. Jessie and her best friend, Alex, hit the blackjack tables when they get to Vegas. She meets a man named Russ, who seems to have a knack for knowing what cards he is going to get. He gives Alex bad advice on purpose to get rid of her so that he can have Jessie all to himself. Jessie ends up spending her last dime at Russ' insistence that she put all her money in. Before the night is out, Russ is up over half a million dollars and Jessie has won a substantial amount herself. The only problem is that Jessie is only 18 years old and, therefore, underage. Her fake ID may have been sufficient to get through the door, but she now needs to provide her Social Security Number to collect her winnings. She agrees to let Russ cash out the chips for both of them, and she waits for him in his hotel room. Although she worries a bit about whether he will skip out on her, she also feels that she can trust him.
The next day, Jessie is kidnapped and thrown into a meat locker. She tries to escape but fails, and she slips into unconsciousness as the effects of hypothermia begin to take their toll. When she awakens, she is in a morgue and the coroner is about to cut her open to perform the autopsy. Her mind is awake but she cannot speak or move, and she has no idea how to get his attention before he kills her for real when he removes her organs!
Pike has created an amazing parallel world called Witch World. A person can have up to ten extra genes, but the genes can overlap to create extra abilities. For example, a person can have three extra genes but possess six special abilities such as a gene for healing or longevity or strength. These unique individuals with these extra genes are known as "witches," and dying activates these "witch" genes. When a person with these extra abilities dies in the Real World, she awakens in Witch World. It exists at the same time as the Real World, but in a different time zone. The person transitions between worlds at dawn, so she will go to bed in Witch World but wake up in the Real World but a day earlier. Essentially, she will live each day twice: First in Witch World and then again in the Real World.
I liked Jessie, whose strength is admirable. She is thrust into this unknown reality and has to figure out how to tap into her special powers to enable her to survive. While Witch World looks very much like the Real World, the rules are different. Jessie straddles the line between good and evil, which makes her a bit of a loose cannon and an interesting protagonist. She does have some dark tendencies, and she could go either way.
The first half of the story was really fast-paced and was hard for me to put down. In the second half of the book, the world-building became more complex as Pike goes back in time - sometimes thousands of years - to explain the back-story of some of the characters. There were parts that were somewhat convoluted, and it felt a bit like information-overload. However, overall, I still really enjoyed the book and I am planning to read the sequel!
I am surprised by the "Grades 9 and up" rating of this book. Due to the sexual content and the age of the protagonist, it definitely qualifies for the "New Adult" label.
Narrator Justine Eyre is new-to-me, and I really enjoyed her performance. It was very easy to determine who was speaking due to the subtle inflections and accents that she gave to each character. Her pacing was excellent, and she was a pleasure to listen to!
I received this audiobook from the publisher in exchange for an honest review. I did not receive any compensation for my review, and the views expressed herein are my own.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful.
Happy to see Pike creating new characters, but found this book confusing
By Jennifer
I have to start out by saying I have been a huge fan of Christopher Pike and his books for nineteen years. I started reading his books around the time I was 11 or 12, and if I'm remembering correctly, the first one I ever read was Whisper of Death. Unfortunately I don't remember that book very well, but reading it influenced me to purchase the first Pike book I would ever own (which is still either my #1 or #2 favorite, depending on the day you ask me), Remember Me.
It's been especially exciting over the past few years to see The Last Vampire re-packaged for a whole new generation of fans to enjoy, and then to eventually see Pike start releasing brand new books such as Thirst No. 3 and Thirst No. 4--and now Witch World. Before I knew what Witch World was about, I assumed it would be another bind-up like To Die For, but I was ridiculously happy to find out it was totally new.
Witch World begins with the graduating senior class of Apple Valley High planning a trip for a fun-filled weekend in Las Vegas. Jessie is still in love with her ex-boyfriend, Jimmy, and her drive to Las Vegas becomes uncomfortable after she finds out he'll be riding there in the same car with her. She still doesn't understand why he broke up with her, and it hurts her that he left her for his previous girlfriend, Kari. Jessie is hoping that while they are in Las Vegas she'll finally get the truth behind their break-up.
Once in Las Vegas, Jessie and her best friend Alex break away from their classmates and head out on their own into the casinos armed with their fake IDs. At a 21 table, Jessie and Alex encounter a handsome stranger named Russ who doesn't seem to be able to lose the game. When Jessie is left alone at the table, she follows Russ's lead and begins to win at the game herself--the sum is astonishing, and will pay her college tuition. Later on that evening in Russ's room, he teaches Jessie a game called 22 and she learns another version of herself exists in an alternate reality called witch world.
Alternate reality/time travel stories are tricky to follow, and it takes a very skilled writer to make it have sense to the readers. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to keep up with Christopher Pike's thought process in this book. Perhaps it's because I just had too many follow-up questions, I didn't pay close enough attention, or it simply hasn't been explained yet. I did learn that there is to be a sequel to Witch World, so I am hoping if we are purposely kept in the dark about certain things, then it will be explained in the next book.
Pike's witches are actually pretty unique; there are no magic potions, spells, or anything generally associated with witches. I didn't quite grasp all of the scientific explanations, but there are genes that determine if a person is a witch or not. In Witch World, there appear to be two different groups of witches, a group call the Tars and another called the Lapras. Both sets are powerful, and both are dangerous. Once Jessie becomes "connected" to witch world, she slowly begins to recover Jessica's memories and learns that she and James (the witch world version of Jimmy) conceived a daughter together. Lara, their daughter, is the only witch to have ever been born that possesses all ten genes. This is why each group wants her in their clutches, but I think it still remains to be seen which side has the best intentions.
As is tradition with Christopher Pike novels, many of the characters have very rich, fully fleshed out back stories. Their narratives sometimes can go on for pages and pages, but I felt with this particular title there were simply too many things going on. In the late 80s and 90s when Christopher Pike's books were first being published, they were at most 200 pages. In today's publishing, books in the YA genre on average are around 400 or 500 pages, so Pike now has to meet those publishing needs. In my opinion, it just made this story suffer. Too many characters, too many various plot lines, too many different settings and a world that just wasn't explained enough for readers to follow. Unfortunately most of what I'd want to expand upon are events which occur later in the books, and would be incredibly huge spoilers for people who haven't yet read the book. For those people, I'd strongly recommend taking notes on characters and explanations as they are provided, and then trying to make sense of it all once you've finished the book. I began taking notes, but wasn't always reading in a location where I had access to my notes or could jot any down. I feel as if there were some contradictions; they may have been intentional, since I seem to remember another Pike novel that discussed paradoxes.
I've re-read nearly every Christopher Pike novel I own numerous times, but sadly I don't see myself wanting to read this again at any point. I'm interested enough in Witch World to read at least one sequel and then decide from there if I want to read any further novels in the series. As with any favorite author of mine, I'm bound to be on the fence about a title or two. I had high hopes for this one since it's the first novel in years featuring new characters, but it just wasn't for me. As always, I'll be eagerly waiting for whatever comes next.
*The publisher provided me with an ARC of this book to review.*
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
I wanted so much to like it...
By J. McGinty
Warning: contains spoilers
I write this review with a heavy heart. I love Christopher Pike; I've been obsessed with his works ever since 6th grade when I discovered the Final Friends series, and The Last Vampire series (reprehensibly retooled as "Thirst") helped shape my adolescence--I've re-read Sita's adventures several times since, well into my late 20s. I've recently been reading some of Pike's adult fiction and really liked that too, so when I stumbled upon Red Queen (for $1.99 on kindle no less), I was like "hey, why not?"
I wanted to like this book. Like I said, I'm obsessed with Pike's books. The first 3 chapters go by quickly, and there's definitely potential. What others have said, though, is 100% accurate. Let me explain why things fall apart:
1) Jessie/Jessica (our heroine) is not a likable character. Part of the reason is that she is flat--like so one-dimensional it's physically painful. But her age--particularly due to her life trajectory and the feats she accomplishes--makes her feel particularly "fake". Let me explain. Jessie is supposed to be 18, fresh out of high school. But we learn she's got this daughter in an alternate world, and she's got all these intuitions that lead her to all these uber dangerous places, and you're like "wait how can she only be 18?" Like, her experiences don't match her age, while her emotions are actually stunted even for a teenager. I'll reference the Last Vampire series quite a bit, because A) I found myself internally comparing the two as I read and B) another reviewer had already likened Jessie's actions at the end of the book to something Sita might do. From the first page of TLV, we understand Sita--her motivations, her sense of morality, and, despite the fact that she's an ancient vampire who's killed thousands, we see her humanity. I still haven't figured out if Jessie is a human or not. She never has any strong feelings or emotions. She has no strong motivators (other than what other characters tell her to have), and we have to be explicitly told she's a sweet girl--none of her actions--even pre-"connected"--ever indicate anything about her character.
2) My biggest complaint about Jessie's flatness is when she is reborn as a witch, finds Russ and her dad, and learns about Witch World, witch genes, the fact that she's a witch, and the fact that she's the mother of a perfect witch baby. A normal person, I would think, would find all of this pretty incredulous. I try to never project myself into the characters, but, come on! At the very least, I would have expected Jessie to be like "No way I don't believe you" and take some time for self discovery, research, angry teen defiance--anything! But instead, flat 'ole Jessie just accepts everything without question--just like that. Her lack of confusion, or questioning, or even frustration kind of soured me to her and the story in general. Bottom line: if you have a flat character--particularly your MAIN character--you don't like that character. And if you don't like that character, you neither root for them or really care what happens to them in the end.
3) I never really believed in the Witch Wolrd universe. Now, a lot of that has to do with what I mentioned in #2: Jessie's blind faith in everything that everyone tells her about witches and Witch Wolrd without question. But Pike never really does a cogent job of explaining how the two worlds worked. I just could never wrap my head around how a witch could live two separate lives, but then once she is Connected there's only one of them, but then there's not? I ended up being more consumed with the "whys" instead of the story, and it ended up being very distracting. Like, what happens to the other personality when a witch is connected in one world and that personality travels between the two worlds? Does that personality just disappear? Saying "you get their memories" is a very unsatisfying answer. Again, I think of TLV series--I followed Sita all over the world, back in time, and even to the stars in a magical spaceship. And I believed it all--everything made sense in her universe because you were invested in her character and her reminiscing of the past throughout made the time travel seem natural. But I don't believe anything that happens in The Red Queen. If Pike would have just spent a little more time on character development and rules of the universe, I feel like I would have been less distracted and would have been more open to believe what I was reading. Again, I know this is fiction--the issue isn't the "realism" as compared to reality, but as compared to the universe Pike attempted to create.
4) I felt nothing when any of the characters died. The ancillary characters were far more interesting that Jessie, partially because they had interesting back stories, and partially because they felt feelings. But part of the reason that you feel something when a character close to the main character dies is because you care about the main character and don't want her to suffer. But, again, I never really felt that Jessie cared about any of the other characters (even her beloved Jimmy), and so when people died I was just li,e "oh well s/he's dead now; I guess that happened". It's a real shame, because I think back to Sita, and how devastated she was when she had to kill Yaksha, and even though he was evil you care about him because of the emotions she is experiencing. But with Red Queen there is no emotion, and so I ended up just not caring.
All this reminiscing about Sita makes me want to re-read the Last Vampire series for a 4th time, and that would be my suggestion to you, oh avid review reader. Save your brain for something with heart :)
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