{"id":14243,"date":"2018-04-25T13:59:11","date_gmt":"2018-04-25T18:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sadieforsythe.com\/wp\/?p=14243"},"modified":"2021-10-30T20:02:17","modified_gmt":"2021-10-31T01:02:17","slug":"review-of-magyk-septimus-heap-1-by-angie-sage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sadieforsythe.com\/wp\/review-of-magyk-septimus-heap-1-by-angie-sage\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review of Magyk (Septimus Heap #1), by Angie Sage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-14244\" src=\"http:\/\/sadieforsythe.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/13500230.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"175\" height=\"175\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sadieforsythe.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/13500230.jpg 175w, http:\/\/sadieforsythe.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/13500230-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 175px) 100vw, 175px\" \/>I borrowed a copy of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0009929K6\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B0009929K6&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=sadieforsythe-20&amp;linkId=abca69010b2f9c69ad6e6212a2ed489d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Magyk: Septimus Heap<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=sadieforsythe-20&amp;l=am2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B0009929K6\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>, by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.angiesage.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Angie Sage<\/a> from my local library.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Description from Goodreads:<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Enter the world of Septimus Heap, Wizard Apprentice. Magyk is his destiny. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>A powerful necromancer plans to seize control of all things Magykal. He has killed the Queen and locked up the Extraordinary Wizard. Now with Darke Magyk he will create a world filled with Darke creatures. But the Necromancer made one mistake. A vital detail he has overlooked means there is a boy who can stop him &#8211; the only problem is, the boy doesn&#8217;t know it yet.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>For the Heap family, life as they know is about to change, and the most fantastically fast-paced adventure of confused identities, magyk and mayhem, begin.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Review:<\/strong><br \/>\nI am not the intended audience for this book, being far too old. But I rented it to listen to with my 10yo, on a car trip. She quite enjoyed it. I didn&#8217;t dislike it, but didn&#8217;t fall in love either. While I was entertained, I also found the whole thing obvious and flat.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve seen a somewhat convincing argument that the whole thing is meant to be a Christian parable. I&#8217;d never of made the connection on my own (Christian parables seriously not being my thing), but once pointed out, I could see where the reviewer got the idea. If you&#8217;re looking for that in a middle grade book, pick this one up. Maybe reading it from that perspective will give the narrative the oooh I felt tit lacked.<\/p>\n<p>All in all, not bad, entertaining in a youthful sort of way. But lacking in enough depth to make me love it. It&#8217;s no Harry Potter, that&#8217;s for sure, though likely aimed at part of the same demographic.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Allan_Corduner\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Allan Corduner<\/a> did a marvelous job with the audiobook narration though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I borrowed a copy of Magyk: Septimus Heap, by Angie Sage from my local library. Description from Goodreads: Enter the world of Septimus Heap, Wizard Apprentice. Magyk is his destiny. A powerful necromancer plans to seize control of all things Magykal. He has killed the Queen and locked up the Extraordinary Wizard. Now with Darke [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1103,397,231,61,1890,93,338],"class_list":["post-14243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book-review","tag-angie-sage","tag-audiobook","tag-book-review","tag-fantasy","tag-harper-audio","tag-magic","tag-middle-grade"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sadieforsythe.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sadieforsythe.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sadieforsythe.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sadieforsythe.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sadieforsythe.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14243"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/sadieforsythe.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19755,"href":"http:\/\/sadieforsythe.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14243\/revisions\/19755"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sadieforsythe.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sadieforsythe.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sadieforsythe.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sadieforsythe.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}