magic book

[Alvin]

I’m a huge Harry Potter fan. And as a Potterhead, I personally consider reading any fantasy and any magical-related novels as sacrilege or disrespect. Early this year, I accidentally bumped to a bookshelf in a local bookstore here in our province. This particular book, “Wizard’s Tale” caught my attention. I found myself in the cashier and bought the book. Later that night, I scanned its pages. And what seemed to be just scanning and skimming turned out to be leafing its pages until to the very end. I just couldn’t put it down. I was magically hooked. I finished reading the book in just one whole night. Well, though it is not comparable to Harry Potter series, I feel a sense of pride that Pinoys could really match any novelist in writing relative to fantasy and wizarding world. This book is a combination of the resurrected and long-lost trading of story telling, the likes of Pedro Penduko, the nuno-sa-punso, and other folkloric tales to the tune of modern or present era of presenting a tale. Like Harry Potter, one of the central themes is about friendship, loyalty and the joy of being in love. The magical sensibilities are added to create not just an illusion, but a reality that everything is possible when one just believe. Now after reading, I realize that WT1 is not a disrespect anymore, I consider this book as a companion to my HP books, and once more brought my senses into being that I really believe in magic. I still do.