{"version":"1.0","type":"link","provider_name":"Hardcover","provider_url":"https://hardcover.app","cache_age":86400,"title":"Witch","url":"https://hardcover.app/books/witch-1990","description":"From Publishers Weekly\r\nIn this hokey, meandering novel, Julia is a girl gifted with a healing touch and the power to glimpse the future. When she sees a vision of her best friend\u0026#39;s boyfriend, Jim, shot and bleeding to death, she does her best to keep him out of danger. But then another friend is shot while witnessing a gas station holdup, and Julia and Jim set out to wreak revenge on the gunman. Meanwhile, Julia\u0026#39;s best friend discovers that the gunman just happens to be the deranged former boyfriend of Kary, the recently deceased half-sister Julia never knew. Julia\u0026#39;s mother--also a healer--had died in an attempt to save Kary\u0026#39;s life. In another part of town, a carload of good witches is hot on Julia\u0026#39;s trail, determined to keep her from abusing her powers. Typically, Pike\u0026#39;s writing is peppy enough to animate his most tangled plots; here, however, his style becomes choppy and unconvincing--unable to sustain the coincidence-riddled story. In addition, the text is littered with sexist one-liners which, along with a humorless running \u0026quot;joke,\u0026quot; are as irritating as they are offensive. Ages 13-up.\r\nCopyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.","author_name":"Christopher Pike","author_url":"https://hardcover.app/authors/christopher-pike-34b5dfbe-8229-4a74-9b01-0883b6e1ac3b","thumbnail_url":"https://assets.hardcover.app/external_data/27563454/61caeb78c9164f6982b4e4b56185ff9cbbf8b812.jpeg","thumbnail_width":314,"thumbnail_height":500}