tastytakoyaki's reviews
255 reviews

This book and this trilogy remains one of the most important works I've ever read. It had a huge impact on me as a young person and helped transition me into more mature content and ideas. It kept me reading at a point in my life where I was beginning to lose my interest. 

Though technically marketed as a story for young people, I'd say this book (and trilogy) will absolutely appeal to adults and young adults too, and I bet the adult audiences will find much more depth here than you might expect. Despite being for young audiences, this book has a lot to say. 

This author is very critical of organized religion, so if that will upset you, fair warning. There is not a specific religion from our world that exists in this book, but the parallels are clear. 

This is a delightful fantasy adventure in a world that is both incredibly familiar and also clearly different from our own. The characters are fantastic, the writing is great and the story is gripping and exciting. 

I can't recommend this enough, and that goes for the whole series. 

10/10 will read again and again. 

What can I say about this book other than it's fantastic. It is dense, but the world building is supreme. An excellent mix of fantasy and science Fiction, similar in many ways to the type of story we see in Star Wars. Fans of both science fiction and fantasy will find lots to love here, if you can get through the slow pacing and dense detailed world building. (If you like Tolkien and can handle all the details therein, you'll be fine here).