The thing I liked best about Wizards at War was that there was finally a character who wasn't a wizard and yet claimed her right to participate anyway.
Things I did not like: It was padded. The pivotal character (the female insectoid) sort of appears out of nowhere, then doesn't do much of anything. The climactic battle seemed to be the same climactic battle that happened in the last few books. And when the reader is convinced with good reason that nothing permanently bad will happen to anyone, the stakes are yawn-worthy. And the revelation about Ponch made sense, and yet was profoundly annoying.
I think what I like best about So you Want to be a Wizard is the creepy transformed New York, and the Lotus. And that for the first few books, Kit and Nita were the only characters you were sure-- well, pretty sure-- would survive the book.
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Date: 2005-09-16 05:09 am (UTC)Things I did not like: It was padded. The pivotal character (the female insectoid) sort of appears out of nowhere, then doesn't do much of anything. The climactic battle seemed to be the same climactic battle that happened in the last few books. And when the reader is convinced with good reason that nothing permanently bad will happen to anyone, the stakes are yawn-worthy. And the revelation about Ponch made sense, and yet was profoundly annoying.
I think what I like best about So you Want to be a Wizard is the creepy transformed New York, and the Lotus. And that for the first few books, Kit and Nita were the only characters you were sure-- well, pretty sure-- would survive the book.