Review: Boy Witch or Boy Detective?
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 28, 2014
I read and enjoyed the first book in this series, "Tex the Witch Boy." I inadvertently skipped book 2, but plowed ahead even when I noticed my mistake. Characters brought out in book 2 appeared in book 3, so I had some moments of confusion of the "who the heck is that?" variety. I just wanted everybody to know I read out of sequence (Gah! as Tex would say).This book was somewhat longer than book 1 and I grew a bit impatient because it seemed I came to the exciting conclusion and still had a lot more to read. But I see what Mr. West was up to. This is the last we'll see of Tex (maybe), thus loose string tying is necessary.As with book 1, Mr. West takes on another type of bullying, in this case, religious organizations like the real (unfortunately) Westboro Baptist Church who choose to be disgusting pieces of the worst of humanity all while carrying a great big cross in front of them. I was quite happy that Tex had a hand in taking them down (the fictional church in the book, not Westboro).My only complaint over all is that I would have liked to see Tex master witchcraft more fully than he appears to have done over the two year span of the series. While there is some reference to Tex being taught by Mickey, his mentor witch, he doesn't show evidence of having learned much he could use on his own without Mickey's aid,Other than that, I enjoyed the book and plan to go back in time to read book 2 some day.