Ahoy there mateys! I don’t remember who convinced me to give this series a chance but I do know that it was the discussion of music that led to it. I was warned that the series was read when much younger and so she didn’t know if it would hold up. I listened to this one on audiobook with narration by Karen Ziemba. They actually excluded samples of the chanting which was cool. They unfortunately used the exact same versions of the chanting for the entire book. Not so cool. I ended up thinking that this was just an okay read. I did like the magic system and the main protagonist. But the plot was not good for me at all. Serious problems with it. At least enough time has passed that I threw whole sections out of me noggin. So won’t be readin’ any others in this series. I am glad I read it and satisfied the curiosity I always had for the series. I do think that if I was in middle school, I would have liked this series a lot more.

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