So dumb but it gets my second grader reading. There's a little humor for any adult forced to read along, at least.

March 12, 2019

Wishmakers is chock full of all the ridiculous slapstick that annoyed me when I was the target audience's age and now I just found it tedious. I couldn't quite force myself to finish it. I'm sure sillier kids will enjoy it.

May 6, 2018
March 6, 2020

No sexual assult! Remarkable restraint by the author. Helen's personality had to be entirely altered for this story but it's fun once you forgive that.

September 27, 2018
July 30, 2018

Rich descriptions of the world, mythology, and magic. Very little actual plot. The blurb on the back of the book makes you think the full story will be complex but really those few sentences are the entire plot, just bloated with world building to be a full book.

November 10, 2016
April 13, 2020
April 24, 2017
June 11, 2018
July 27, 2017
September 24, 2017
January 28, 2015
June 4, 2020
June 9, 2019
June 25, 2018
June 9, 2019
February 3, 2015

The most vanilla protagonist doing the most vanilla things in the most vanilla town. A mysterious death leads to a pretty vanilla detective story.

But it works. I actually found it really enjoyable. I didn't think I would early on but I stuck with it long enough that it got good.

April 25, 2018
March 3, 2020
September 26, 2017

These books have gotten increasingly difficult to get through emotionally. This one finally crossed the line into unfinishable. Bullying, torture, rape, torture-rape... I had anxiety attacks. I think this is the first book I've quit for health reasons.

February 14, 2018
April 19, 2018
January 2, 2016
June 26, 2018
July 21, 2015