Septimus Heap ~Book Two~ Flyte

Wow, ok, yeah……totally forgot about doing this. I finished the book last Saturday night but what with packing for college and actually getting here I completely forgot about putting it up here. Oh well. Anyway “Flyte” is a sequel. For me sequel’s are never anywhere close to the level of interest that the original book achieves. In a sequel there’s not nearly as much “new” material, in other words you can expect what happens, the reader knows the rules of the world the novel takes place in. However “Flyte” does a moderately decent job of keeping a fresh feeling to itself while maintaining the previous storyline. Unfortunately the story itself isn’t anything that makes you guess what will happen (Much like the first one). Mrs. Sage’s skill seems to be in the invention of interesting characters and scenarios, but not in the area of unseen plot twists. Still the book was definitely worth reading, if for nothing else but to see the expansion of the original world created in “Magyk” and characters that are sure to make you laugh with their quirky ways. Although I was disappointed that the cat-transformed-into-a-duck-that-attacks-randomly didn’t make an appearance but was there only by a brief mention or two. Poor Bert….. maybe in the next book he’ll get a lead role……

Flyte

-JD

~ by twilightspath on July 12, 2008.