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Summary: A great read!!!!
Review: A great beginning of the "Wind On Fire Trilogy." I can't wait until the next book in the series to learn the future of the Morah and Aramanth.
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Summary: A Very Good Entertainment
Review: 'The Wind Singer' is a solid, fast-paced adventure for young readers with interesting characters and a theme to which most students can relate. What if your whole life was measured by a series of tests, seemingly standardized and thus fair to all who took them? What if your family's status within the community depended on the accumulated scores of parents and children? What if you just don't fit into this system?
While 'The Wind Singer' is not as rich and complex as 'The Golden Compass' and not as strongly plotted as "Harry Potter," it is a very good entertainment, which happens to make an interesting point about education.
The author, a screenwriter and director, draws vivid action scenes and moves the plot along at a motion-picture pace. There is not much depth to the characters, but this is the first book of a series, so their growth may be the focus of the books as the series progresses.
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Summary: An adventure for all.
Review: I bought this book for our 12 year old daughter, a huge Harry Potter fan. She was reluctant to start reading it, as she was reading the 4th Harry Potter for the gazillionth time, so I read it. The language is lyrical, the adventure awesome, and the evil immense. My daughter now pronounces it her favorite book, and my husband just finished reading it aloud to our whole family. We can't wait for further books in the planned trilogy. Please buy this book. It can be enjoyed on many levels.
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Summary: I love this book!
Review: This book is SO good. Spur-of-the-moment Kestrel, her twin brother Bowman and the seemingly stupid classmate must find the key to the mysterious wind singer to save their people from the Zars, the strange people of the evil god Morah. The characters in this book have great and believable personalities, and there is never a dull moment. If you like Harry Potter, you'll LOVE this book, believe me. This fantasy/adventure book has everything, it's worth the money, so BUY IT!
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Summary: Not just for the young
Review: This book is within the tradition of science fiction/fantasy that seeks to make comments about our current state of human affairs through entertaining fiction, without beating the reader over the head with the obvious moral of the story. It's not often that one's heartbeat is raised when reading a book, but that's exactly what happened to me on several occasions while reading this. Mr. Nicholson has written a stupendous novel, and I'll be first in line to buy the second book in the trilogy. In Amaranth, everyone has their place in society, and that place is determined by one's performance on exams. Each year, test-takers have the opportunity to move up in the social hierarchy, with those who fail the test sent down a level. Those who have risen to the very top of the system seem to like it best, and feel most threatened by those whose apathy toward their own position in Amaranth makes a mockery of the whole system of constantly striving to better oneself. This is the place from which Kestrel and her brother, Bowman, start out on their great quest. And what a quest it is! The obstacles that they encounter on their journey for Amaranth's version of the Holy Grail are so well-described by Mr. Nicholson that I felt myself covered with mud, or on top of a steep precipice, or surrounded by thousands of zombie-like drones. So, my recommendation is this. If you liked Harry Potter, give this a go. If you didn't like Harry Potter, give this a go.
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Summary: The Wind Singer
Review: I am 9 years of age. I have read all the Harry Potter Books and I have been looking for a new book to read. I found The Wind Singer on amazon.com and liked the reviews so I got the book. I think it is a brilliant book because its really exciting and you dont know what's going to happen next. I have figured out the secret message on the back of the book by using the old Manth alphabet. I would really recommend this book.
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Summary: Its a fun entertaining read!
Review: It's a AWESOME book. I LOVED IT! I thought it was well written with adventure, humour, and drama...everything you need for a fun and entertaining read! I recommend this to anyone who is in need of a good book! Open it up sometime and trust me you wont be able to stop reading!
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Summary: Thought provoking
Review: This book is a breathtaking examination of social structure and fantastical elements - Gulliver's Travels meets The Wizard of Oz. I am greatly impressed and delighted to see works of this nature being written for a younger audience, because it speaks to a rising literacy. Bravo to both the author and the publisher for daring to aim so high, and succeed so admirably (like Pullman).
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Summary: First book I've read by William Nicholson
Review: I pretty much enjoyed reading this book. To me, the most interesting idea that William Nicholson created was the Old Children. They are really creepy, but also saddening. I don't know, the character of Mumpo was fun too.
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Summary: wonderfully original!
Review: In the city of Aramanth, Kestrel Hath rebels against a society built on exam results. Along with her beloved twin brother Bowman and Mumpo (who kinda tagged along) she sets off to find the wind singer and break the evil that grips Aramanth.
The story is fast paced and beautifully set. The three heroes meet some interesting and original characters, such as the Ombaraka, the old children, the mud people and the Zars.
I found the old children (who drain your strength and your life when they touch you) extremely creepy and what could possibly be more sinister than an army of children who do so love to kill??!!!??
I was also a little disappointed at the lack of depth of the characters, although they are still very likable and are also very vivid and you learn a lot more about them in the later books.
I really liked the way the "oaths" were simply made up words, such as "pongo" because the characters could swear and curse with feeling without offending the reader.
I liked the Wind Singer a lot because I thought it was very different and refreshing as well as being exciting and interesting.
I would recommend it to fantasy lovers of about 10 up, although older readers will probably be looking for something more, the next two books go into much more depth when the characters have become older and I think they'll find what they're looking for in the sequels.
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