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    <body><![CDATA[I've liked everything else I've read by Stroud, so I tried this one as well.  It's my least favorite, but it does a good job of imagining an ancient castle and 3 teens who take up temporary residence, and their struggle against the outside world.  Decent suspense, but not nearly as involving and viv...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68353771">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A delightful and well-delivered young adult novel from the author of The Bartimaeus Trilogy, The Last Siege plays with the conventions of fantasy while lightly skirting the genre. Stroud's characters are believable, which is important to the reader's experience, since they are not always credible. I...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6972816">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really like Jonathan Stroud's books but this one did not grab me like some of the others have.  I think it is because I do not like snow nor the cold and reading it just made me think of being cold.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a good book but if you go to it after having finished the Bartimaeus trilogy, just be aware that this is very different.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is about three friends and their adventures in their local castle. Two of the kids live locally and the other one lives a city over. the castle is supposed to be off limits, which makes it that much better when they get in it. They pretend to be the owners of the castle and try to repel th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49992679">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I guess I was expecting something fantastic to happen in the story, but it is modern-day regular fiction.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I started this expecting it to be funny like the Bartimeus series.  It was the most un-funny book I've ever read.<br/>It was still good, just not what I was expecting.<br/>I skipped to the end when I lost patience and was kind of sad that I did.  (The end wasn't as predictible as I would've though...]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I had been expecting something along the lines of time-travel and an actual siege of the old castle ruins in medieval times. This sort of adolescent story does not appeal to me (they never do, I confess), but there's no denying that Jonathan Stroud's writing is nothing short of brilliant, as always....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32937573">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is one of those stories where you just want to shake the main characters for getting themselves into such a predicament.  However, having got themselves there you still want to find out what happens to them.<br/><br/>The ending was slightly lame, but all in all a diverting read.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I picked this up because I wanted to track the progress of an author.  I wanted to see what came before the Bartimaeus trilogy.  The curiosity and everyday sense of magic is there a bit but its slow and Stroud doesn't really love any of the characters in this book.  ]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I like the detail made into this book and the mood of the castle.I like how the three explore the castle and find uses for each room. The actual siege scene really excited me the way the three used traps and snowballs to repel the police. nice twists in the book. :)]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Boring.  We got this on audio to listen to on a road trip.  I kept thinking something exciting was going to happen, but it never does.  Full of whiny teenagers.  This is nothing like Bartimaeus. I didn't even listen to the end.<br/>Recommend: I don't really, but 10+]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Aug 04 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm half way through and I'm not going to finish this book.  I didn't like the fact that the young boy in the book swears, drinks and smokes.  I kept hoping for more of a plot, and maybe it does get better, but I'll probably not find out.  ]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Feb 19 02:30:24 -0800 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[This little number by Mr Stroud is a good, quick read. It is more of a real life bit of fiction, but for someone who spent a lot of time admiring castles in pictures and then finally living in a countryside littered with them, it hit the spot.]]></body>
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    <review id="1483644">
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    <rating>4</rating>
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  <date_added>Sun May 27 19:32:32 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun May 27 19:33:15 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[ Jonathan Stroud yet again produces a great book with lots of imagination and a few laughs pushed in there too. I was a little disappointed with the ending, though. ]]></body>
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</review>
    <review id="20365767">
    <user id="1091460">
    <name><![CDATA[Paul]]></name>
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    <rating>3</rating>
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  <read_at>Thu Apr 10 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Apr 17 06:30:55 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Apr 17 06:33:12 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[After reading the Bartimaeus Trilogy, I wanted to read more Stroud.  I was fairly disappointed by this one.]]></body>
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    <review id="9905297">
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    <name><![CDATA[Kasey]]></name>
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  <date_added>Mon Dec 03 18:23:01 -0800 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Dec 03 18:24:27 -0800 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Extremely well written.  A great mix of realistic fiction and a good adventure story!!]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9905297]]></url>
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    <review id="11413348">
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    <name><![CDATA[RoseAnn]]></name>
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  <read_at>Tue May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Jan 01 18:45:38 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Jan 01 18:46:44 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Set in the present time about friends and foes who can go too far.]]></body>
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