Magyk book 26/12/2023 ![]() ![]() In some ways, Septimus Heap is a battle of magical good and evil in the vein of Harry Potter. What other book might you compare Flyte to and why? I was looking forward to listening to it. "! The Afterwords, for lack of a better term, are one of the more creative elements in Angie Sage's Septimus Heap series. ![]() There is one huge thing I would change about the book - I would include the narration for "What Happened Before. Is there anything you would change about this book? There certainly isn't a delicious anticipation to get to the next in the series as there was in the first. As it is, I'm not sure I'll go on with the series. Corunder's hilarious interpretations, and I wish I could hear him narrate for all the books. I almost felt as if I needed to reacquaint myself with some of the characters, who seemed totally different than in the first book (example, Marcia was so solid and funny and quirky with her fascinating purple shoes in the first book in the second, she seemed inept and downright irritating at times - and that to me really stemmed from the narration, not the writing). This second narrator was okay - and that was it - just okay. His voices were so riveting, entertaining, enchanting - it was hard for any of us to put the book down. Allan Corunder did such a phenomenal job in the first book. ![]() ![]() But, I can't help wonder if it was the narration that changed things for me. Angie Sage's second installment was still entertaining, albeit a bit more predictable while the characters were rather more irritating than enchanting, as in the first. ![]()
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