So You Want to Be a Wizard (Young Wizards Series Book 1)

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So You Want to Be a Wizard (Young Wizards Series Book 1)

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Pros & Cons

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Pros

Review is for the kindle edition ebook. Still, i do recommend getting the books in ebook format. It helps to have ebook copies to take with you if you want to do a bit of reading while travelling.

Diane duane has a knack for creating worlds that you wish you could go to as well. Duane creates sympathetic characters who are smart, snappy, yet wonderfully flawed in believable and understandable ways. The villain is especially interesting as he ha... Read More

Diane duane's young wizards series is an enchantment that transcends age. The author directs this to children without patronizing then or pandering with cheap theatrics. These are the books i will very subtly be sticking out of the shelves when they t... Read More

Cons

Even the completely original bits aren't satisfying, because the characters other than nita are very shallow. Magic and premises are taken too lightly.

The story is deeply convoluted with one dimensional characters and strangely familiar situations. It is clear the author probably should have done more research before trying to reference such weighty concepts as entropy and space-time curvature. Ther... Read More

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Quality

The writing is clean and crisp the worldbuilding is fantastic and the characters are wonderful and come in everexpanding varieties

Nita and kit are well developed characters for a ya series and the other characters introduced especially those of the embodied... Read More

And since these are the ebooks of the original editions i knew the continuity issues of the print versions would still be there... Read More

Random trademark symbols and asterisks scattered into the text odd capitalizations and some words changed into nonsense like um... Read More

Shipping

It arrived promptly in good shape and made a nice gift

Competitiveness

Ive long been of the opinion that these books are far better than the harry potter series despite the mass appeal of the others... Read More

Comparisons can be odious but i have to wonder why this far superior work never got the attention that the harry potter series received

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wizard, magic, young, first and great.

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This product had a total of 671 reviews as of our last analysis date on Mar 29 2024.