Review: Exciting first book
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 12, 2011
If you have liked The Magicians or other books I would consider "adult" Harry Potter styled books you will love this.  It is interesting and action packed pretty much the whole way through.  I am excited to see what the rest of the series turns out like but if it is anything like the first then it will be among my favorite series.  It is set in America, sometime in the future, or maybe an alternative present day where the financial crisis cause more damage then the one we are currently facing. It has your typical fantasy start; poor boy, not too popular and he suddenly discovers he has powers he can't understand, if you read fantasy you can take it from there.  However it is not over done, you don't feel like it is unimaginable, the main character is obviously intelligent and motivated from the very start, it's more a hard working kid got a lucky break (possibly unlucky) then a lost prince found working in someone's kitchen.  The only downside is the series just came out, I would very much have liked to pick it up towards the end so I could read the whole series straight through.