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Title: This book is boring compared to other "wizard" books
Review: My two sons ages 8 and 11 have been reading this book and I was pressed into reading it aloud to my younger son for a couple of hours on the plane. I was disappointed. The plot doesn't make a lot of sense after the initial setup that puts the wizarding instruction book in the hands of the protagonist--a "white hole" star has a conversation with the kids over a period of days for instance, really just out of nowhere. The kids plunge into doing very sophisticated magic right away and the philosophy of the magic that gets done, if you can call it that, is of the sophmoric "everything is alive and has feelings" variety, including rusting cars. I couldn't bear to read it aloud after a while. Skimming it might be ok.
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