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Title: Kids fiction ala assembly line
Review: Considering the accolades given this book by Harry Potter fans desperate to tide themselves over between books, I am quite surprised at how mechanically this book reads - characters are shallow, everything is a move between plot points, and the villans who start off sounding so evil seem to be thier own worst enemy.Most frustrating of all is the fact that good ideas and great characters like Silent Sam and Asmodeoussss (very creepy) are squandered. One of my biggest complaints has to do with the way conflicts with the villans are resolved. In the interest of not giving away anthing to those who will enjoy this book, I will only say that my reaction to these resolutions was "What? That's it?".Ultimitely, this is geared for 13 year old boys who want "action, action, action". Jerry Bruckheimer if you wanted to make a kids film, this is your source material.
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