I do love a story with a happy ending. And I like that the author spent time to tell the readers what happened to the other characters, no matter how brief their role was. Actually it's like saying no character is big or small. But that was the downside too. It was hard to know where to focus. The b...
Review to come soon
Magyk - book one of the Septimus Heap series by Angie Sage - conjured up a certain expectation in my mind before I started reading it: that of a young wizard in a medieval setting who has to fight against some other evil wizard. That's about as much as the blurb on my edition gives away.So, I'm gues...
As much as I ADORE fantasy fiction, this one was way too juvenile even for me. And I don't mean the story - premise was good - but the language! It felt like the author had written the book keeping ONLY 8 year olds in mind. It was way too simple, with too much "telling" and not enough "showing", to ...