The Books of Magic<\/i> John Ney Rieber<\/p>\n
The Books of Magic: Bindings (1)
\nThe Books of Magic: Summonings (2)
\nThe Books of Magic: Reckonings (3)
\nThe Books of Magic: Transformations (4)
\nThe Books of Magic: Girl in the Box (5)
\nThe Books of Magic: The Burning Girl (6)
\nThe Books of Magic: Death after Death (7)<\/i><\/p>\n
In her quest to get me to read comics, Erin gave me book 1, Bindings, for my birthday, and so, finishing the first and being me, I had to read the rest. (Yeah, I know, I\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2ve got a bad book addiction, but it could be worse.)<\/p>\n
The fact that I have not read the initial The Books of Magic<\/i> didn\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2t keep me from following the story, but I did frequently feel like I was missing something. (I vaguely remember coming across The Books of Magic<\/i> somewhere, so I\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2ll have to see if I can find it.)<\/p>\n
As a whole, the series is so-so. There were threads started and then apparently forgotten, leaving you to wonder what happened, and the last books just got really weird , leaving me more confused than anything else. Characters appeared, and then disappeared, and I never really felt like I understood why they were acting the way they did. Things happened for no reason, or for some strange reason that was never fully explained, and it was hard to understand why people acted they way they did, and more importantly how they ended up where they were.<\/p>\n
It was mostly enjoyable, but I felt let down by the end of the series. There were so many interesting places the story could have gone, but didn’t.<\/p>\n
ADDENDUM the First<\/b>: Michael just finished reading the Book 7 and said, “I HATE the way that ended!” So I don’t think it was just me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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