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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. It starts with a man who was heading back home to his family where his wife was having their seventh son. He found a baby girl on the walk and decided to take her in, especially when he came back to the midwife running out claiming his son was dead. So he and his wife raised the little girl for 10 years, even when his wife figured out she was the princess. Since the queen was killed and the baby was lost not long ago. After 10 years the top wizard person (extraordinary wizard) came to tell them that their neighbor was a spy and they all made a plan to hide Jenna (princess). Marcia (the wizard) took Jenna with her for a bit and they found an army boy and helped him. Later Marcia gets taken by an evil wizard and they work to help her. With the help of others and a ring that controls a flying ship. At the end of the book Marcia sees that the army boy has a gift for magic and offers him to be her apprentice. Which allows him to receive a gift or something. It is later revealed that he is the seventh son who the midwife had actually kidnapped for the dark wizard. But there was a mix up of which baby the dark wizard was supposed to take. So his name was actually Septimus Heap. Ei, see ei ole uus Harry Potter. Kohe kaugel sellest. Nii et need, kes vapustava Harry imepärast järglast ootavad, võivad kohe lugemise pooleli jätta. Aga need, kes otsivad originaalset maailma, kus toimetab terve hulk võlureid ja muid põnevaid tegelasi, peaksid raamatusse vaatamist kaaluma. Angie Sage´i Septimus Heapi seitsmeraamatulise sarja esimene raamat “Wõlukunst” üllatas mind kahel põhjusel: esimeseks on suurepärased kõrvaltegelased, kelle puhul (mõistetavatel põhjustel) ei häiri, et nad nad jäävad vaid visandlikeks. Näiteks kivist lemmikloom, või rotist kuller, kelle tähtsus ja pühendumus hoidis kogu aeg muige suur, või siis vapustavalt hästi kirjeldatud muhe (aga täiesti sõge) vanamees, kes sellesama roti ära röövis. Ja loomulikult rabarulle, kellest kujunes minu jaoks selle raamatu täielik pärl. (Võib ju vaielda, kas boggarti tõlkimine rabarulleks on päris asjakohane, aga sellesse raamatusse sobib see nagu rusikas silmaauku!) Kahjuks ei saa sama öelda raamate peategelaste kohta, kes on kohati lausa karikatuursed – mõnel puhul ilmselt küll taotluslikult, nt rääkides tähtsast Ebatavalisest võlurist Marciast või suurest kolepahast kurivõlurist DomDanielist, kuid sügavusest jääb puudu ka kandvate tegelaste kirjeldamisel, kes justkui kordamööda peategelaseks kandideerivad, ja kellele lugeja peaks justkui kaasa elama. Selline pealiskaudsus teeb lugemise raskeks, eriti raamatu esimeses neljandikus. Teiseks üllatuseks oli lausa plahvatuslik sündmuste tulevärk. Toimub kogu aeg nii palju ja nii erinevaid asju, et mingil hetkel ei oska enam midagi oodata. Juba see, et raamat algab sarja äsjasündinud peategelase surma ja ulguva ämmaemandaga, kes lapse laibaga öhe kaob, annab kerge lõuahaagi, edasine juhtumiste virrvarr viib lõpuks lausa kerge peapöörituseni. Raamatu plussiks on kindlasti lühikesed peatükid, mis teevad sellest suurepärase teose unejuttude lugemiseks, ja ilmekad illustratsioonid. Belongs to SeriesSeptimus Heap (1) AwardsNotable Lists
After learning that she is the Princess, Jenna is whisked from her home and carried toward safety by the Extraordinary Wizard, those she always believed were her father and brother, and a young guard known only as Boy 412--pursued by agents of those who killed her mother ten years earlier. No library descriptions found. |
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This book has a tendency to underdevelop characters and details while also overexplaining things. I likely would have found the repetition and simplification as well as the use of bolding and capitalization juvenile even as a young child. The characters do not have distinct voices, and most do not have unique personalities. The dialogue is strange and the phrasing unnatural, making the first half of the book very difficult to get through (ex: "He had broken his fifth metacarpal. His little finger."). Random things are constantly added into the story, such as a magical dragon-boat, which could have worked if the bizarre and whimsical aspects of the world were consistently part of more of the story. If that were the case, this could have been a wonderful Alice-in-Wonderland-esque children's book. Instead, each addition feels like it was not thought through, with no connection to earlier in the book, as if the author just added things in as they came to mind.
I thought the plot was very predictable, but I enjoyed the tie-in of the book's cover design and Septimus' apprentice journal at the end. I found myself looking forward to the illustrations at the start of each chapter, and the seamless perspective switches between characters and even creatures were fun. ( )