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Summary: Deep Wizardry rocks your socks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: Now, let's get this straight. Once and for all. This book is for grade school students and junior high school students. You high school and college kids are too old for books written for little kids!
As for us old folks, we'll just have to hide this book somewhere or maybe pretend that our children or grandchildren are the ones who are reading it.
Seriously, it really is a book for kids. But it's fun for everyone. It has the straightforward spookiness of a children's story. But it also has the highly imaginative touch of Diane Duane as an author.
You don't have to start with the first book in the series, but I think it's better if you do. In the first book, Juanita wanders into trouble pretty easily, but in this book, she really dives into it.
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Summary: Too much description, too little humor...
Review: My wife and I read this book (and the first in the series) aloud to our 7 and 10 year old daughters. By and large, they enjoyed the book. We were struck, however, by two aspects of the book that dramatically decreased our enjoyment of it. First, many parts of the book contain seemingly endlessly detailed descriptions that go on for pages. These often do not serve to clarify the nature of the involved sceens, but instead, more often than not, cloud them (and make readers just say "OK, let's just get on with it"). The detail was also potentially detremental in that it left little to the imagination.The other less than appealing aspect of the book was its generally intense and mostly humorless tone. Whereas the intense situations in the Harry Potter books are made tolerable by the addition of humor infused throughout the book, this book fell short. There is precious little comic relief to be found in Deep Wizardry. We may very well stop our reading of the series with this book, despite the pact that we own the whole series.
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