Name: A Wizard Alone (The Young Wizards Series #6).
ISBN: 9780152049119

Diane Duane

A Wizard Alone (The Young Wizards Series #6).

Jacalyn Boggs

I remember the first time I read, So You Want to be a Wizard. I loved it. Boy, I looked all over my library for my OWN Wizard's manual. If wishes could come true, I'd join forces with Kit and Nita!

I love this series and was glad when I discovered the author was adding to it again. I dove into book 6 with a zest, imagine my surprise with the newest kid to join the wizarding world.

Nita is still mourning the loss of her mother after losing the battle with The Lone Power for dear mum's life. I cried at the end of that book, probably because the cancer angle struck a little too close to home. 

Kit is lonely, missing his partner, but has his trusty dog, Ponch, to keep him company and help out on assignment. Now, if we could just determine what is going on with Ponch, maybe things will start to fit into place. Needless to say the old duo looks to be maybe a trio in the future.

Kit's assignment is to observe a new wizard trapped for three months in his Ordeal. Worried that something must be terribly wrong, Kit gets sucked into the problem and it might just take Nita overcoming her grief to save him.

The new wizard is autistic, which gave this book a whole new angle. Not only did it bring up autism and give some good information, I really liked the author's "insider's view" of what was going on in the boy's head. Let's just say it was pretty fantastic. Especially when he passes some of his traits on to Kit. 

Autism is something that has many people questioning so there's definitely a plethora of theories of how the autistic brain works. The author weaves some of these theories into quite the fascinating worldscape for her characters to battle things out. 

The last book dealt with cancer and this one deals with autism. The author really is covering some hefty topics and doing them well.