Review: Echoes of other stories.
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 07 2, 2012
Schools for magically talented children; fights with many coloured energies; a heroine who is obviously the chosen one, sound familiar? The story rushes from one conflict to another, it was so exhausting. I found I was skipping ahead as the conflicts began to blur into one long confrontation. I have been reading Young Adult fantasy for many years- Eve Ibbotson, Dianna Wynne Jones, Alan Garner, Pamela Wrede and the best stories apppeal to all age groups, but there are too many echoes of other fantasy books for The Doorknob Society to be truly engaging. I also could not identify with the abrasive, angsty heroine. Any book for 99 cents is never a waste of money, maybe just a waste of time.