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While the parallel stories are compelling, the world is fascinating, and the characters complex, I just didn't click with either of the main characters, and that took the story down a notch for me. Still, it's a strong book with a cliff-hanger of an ending and lots of unresolved bits and pieces that will definitely have me picking up the next installment. Although fantasy, the fantastic elements are almost beside the point, with the learning of magic centered more around almost-forgotten rhymes
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Take any of those twee stories about wizarding school and then shove bleak, black despair down its throat. That's this book. It starts out sweet and cliched: a little farm girl can commune with animals, but her father hates magic; a little boy is about to enroll in wizard school. The chapters are short, without much to them. As the characters get older and the story grows more complex, the chapters cease being little cute snippets of their lives and become longer. With time, as more of each situ
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I had a few problems with this book. The first, and most major, was that it was far too short. I know it is the first in a series, but just as I started to really get a feel for what was going on in the two separate stories being told, the book came to a rather abrupt end. Now I suppose if you look at it from another perspective, the fact that I wanted to keep reading and reading these stories IS a good thing. :-)
And the other minor issue I had was that the repeated use of the word "shit" in an ...more
And the other minor issue I had was that the repeated use of the word "shit" in an ...more
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