jonathanpalfrey's review
2.0
This book is a good deal livelier than the previous one, although there's more action and outbreaks of the bizarre than genuine plot. At least you get the feeling that things are happening.
The author used up his main ideas in the first three books, and now he needs some new menace for the wizards to cope with. He finds something that will do; it's quite an interesting idea, but perhaps it could have been better developed.
Not a boring book, but it leaves me rather unsatisfied.
With this series, you could stop reading after the third book without missing much. The fourth and fifth aren't horrible, but they're not up to the previous standard.
The author used up his main ideas in the first three books, and now he needs some new menace for the wizards to cope with. He finds something that will do; it's quite an interesting idea, but perhaps it could have been better developed.
Not a boring book, but it leaves me rather unsatisfied.
With this series, you could stop reading after the third book without missing much. The fourth and fifth aren't horrible, but they're not up to the previous standard.
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