![]() Han’s leisurely paced, somewhat somber narrative revisits several beach-house summers in flashback through the eyes of now 15-year-old Isabel, known to all as Belly.īelly measures her growing self by these summers and by her lifelong relationship with the older boys, her brother and her mother’s best friend’s two sons. Readers will hope that Stroud follows up on certain questions-is it slavery to use a djinni? will shaky looming international politics affect the empire? who deserves our alliance? and who are the mysterious children ostensibly running an underground resistance?-in the next installment, sure to be eagerly awaited. Many chapters end in suspense, suddenly switching narrators at key moments to create a real page-turner. No character is wholly likable or trustworthy, which contributes to the intrigue. ![]() Nathaniel’s perspective alternates with that of Bartimaeus, the cocky, sardonic djinni. ![]() Arrogantly summoning a djinni to help him steal an amulet from slickly evil Simon Lovelace, he’s swept into a swirl of events involving conspiracy at the highest government level. Twelve-year-old Nathaniel is apprenticed to a politician (which means magician), but early emotional pain leads him toward hardness and anger. In a contemporary London full of magic, a thrilling adventure unfolds. ![]()
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