Beatrice Hale has sent me a review of my most recent ebook, The Disenchanted Wizard. She's really enthusiastic about it. This is an abridged version of the review.
This is a beauty of a story! It’s a hugely intriguing
adventure story of discovery where people are ‘folded’ and put in The Map, and
have all sorts of adventures trying to get out of the map. It’s a story of the
goodies and the baddies, and of course the goodies win, eventually.
What did I like? The fantasy, obviously, of The Map
and the wizardry which came with it. The pace was lively, dialogue was great,
characters good and clear, and what got me most was the detail in the
descriptions of the events: the
Antiquarian Bookshop, the ‘folding’ experience, the books coming off the
shelves, the wolves scrabbling and howling, scrambling and scrabbling up the
chimney with ‘shapes’ hurtling round, the wolf biting into a box, and the final
chapters of the soccer match with the pin-up hero Xanadu Whitworth (what a
name!) being revealed as a good wizard and on the right side, as pin-ups ought
to be.
Favourite bits?
I loved the words: ‘Vertical and horizontal dimensions/to both of these
you pay attention.’ Fun! And think of ‘Fold In, Spiral Out’ - a picturesque view of movement.
The story for me was on different levels. Beneath the fantasy origami stuff of being
folded up into small paper shapes and ‘put into the map,’ imprisonment, baddies
and goodies, is a story of children learning to think their way through a
situation, to look for solutions, to try things out, and to keep on trying.
Just suspend your reality, move into the next world –
and ENJOY!
The book is on sale at various ebook outlets. Here are some of them:
The book is on sale at various ebook outlets. Here are some of them:
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