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It'll go down a storm with anyone who loves books

Advantages: Witty, exciting, entertaining....start of a equally fantastic series
Disadvantages: It's not the best in the series (but as you start with this, you can't tell)

I can remember the first time i read this book. I got it from the library as i had ran out of books to read, and being a fan of all things fantasy, thought i'd at least give it a go. Fate must have been shining that day, as the author has now become my fa ...

super-t 22.01.2007 · Read full review
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Review of Storm Front - Jim Butcher

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A great opening to a series

Advantages: well constructed, well written, great main character, no former knowledge of high magic needed
Disadvantages: without the magic and the charm of the main character, the detective element of the novel is bland

From my experience, the problem with man Urban Fantasy books I've read recently is that either the author fills the story with technobabble (or it's fantasy equivalent) or they assume the reader already knows all about the way things should work in their ...

aridad 23.04.2013 · Read full review
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Review of Storm Front - Jim Butcher

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Storm Front Kicks up a real Storm

Advantages: Entertaining Read
Disadvantages: begining and end were a little slow

This book in my Opinion was very cleverly written, it has all the magical trates that i enjoy in a book an during the middle of the book i was totally hooked! i feel it started off very slow. it took me a little while to get into this book, but as soon a ...

Zfarley1 24.09.2010 · Read full review
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Another brilliant book by Garth Nix

Advantages: So much facination
Disadvantages: Sometimes can be confusing

This is another excellent book wrtten by the brilliant author Garth Nix. It is such a fantasy book that at some points it is confusing because the heros in the book are getting attacked by something called "nothing". However don't read this book until you ...

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Review of Sir Thursday (The Keys to the Kingdom) - Garth Nix

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Off to join the Army!

Advantages: You experience what the hero experiences in the book
Disadvantages: You have to wait for the next book to see what happens

Who says children's books are only for children? Brilliantly and ingeniously written, and follows fluidly from the previous books in the series. Wonderfully full of action and suspense injected with comical statements to add to the twist. The plot is i ...

kar_man 05.10.2007 · Read full review
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Review of Sir Thursday (The Keys to the Kingdom) - Garth Nix

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