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Where do I even begin? The first half of the book is a complete snooze fest. It does have its interesting points but NOTHING happens. The 2nd half of the book is an acid trip of random. I started out liking it but yeah it was not for me.
This is a rare instance where I will say save yourself and watch the TV show. The book isn’t worth reading.
So plot summary:
The story is broken into 4 (very uneven books)
Book 1: Quinton goes to school to learn magic. He meets ...more
Where do I even begin? The first half of the book is a complete snooze fest. It does have its interesting points but NOTHING happens. The 2nd half of the book is an acid trip of random. I started out liking it but yeah it was not for me.
This is a rare instance where I will say save yourself and watch the TV show. The book isn’t worth reading.
So plot summary:
The story is broken into 4 (very uneven books)
Book 1: Quinton goes to school to learn magic. He meets ...more
Well, this book kept me reading it, but did not live up to what it could have been. I rated it three stars because it was compelling enough that I kept reading, but perhaps it should be 2 1/2 stars if I could do that because after all that reading, I did not like the message nor the way it turned out. It is rather a mash up of The Chronicles of Narnia and Harry Potter and it does have some fun and different magical elements. But it is ugly. Fillory, a total copy of Narnia, turns out to be much u
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Probably deserves a 4 but I just have to admit to myself that if I don't like any of the characters I am likely not going to like the book. I do want to read the sequel, just haven't geared up for it yet.
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I was instantly absorbed in this novel. It reads like a collaboration between C.S. Lewis, J.K. Rowling, and Bret Easton Ellis, with a lot of Dungeons and Dragons references.
I'm out. I can't read another page of this. I hate the main character and the author doesn't go into any real depth of the other characters for me to feel anything for them. There's very little world building and what exists is just not interesting.
How can anyone make magic school seem so boring? Like nothing interesting is happening at all. It's just a never ending internal dialogue of smugness vying with self-loathing and hormones. I think I'm just not the intended audience for this book. If ...more
How can anyone make magic school seem so boring? Like nothing interesting is happening at all. It's just a never ending internal dialogue of smugness vying with self-loathing and hormones. I think I'm just not the intended audience for this book. If ...more
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