![]() ![]() Just set aside a couple of days, switch off your phone and throw yourself into the Enchanted Forest and the surrounding kingdoms. Full of all sorts of proper traditions, whilst not in fact being traditional at all. ![]() They aren't Lord of the Rings - they aren't Narnia - but they are a special thing all of their own and probably deserve their own sub-category. Whatever your age, if you have any child left in you at all (and who doesn't have at least some) then you will love these books and rather wish there were a few more of them at the end. Even the writing of these stories is part of the story and I felt as though I had been invited to join a secret and exclusive club, by the time I finished reading. It was unexpected and yet somehow satisfying to find out before I started reading that the last book was written first and the rest of them sort of happened by accident. ![]() These are wonderful books - Cimorene (who begins it all) is a fantastic character, but Wrede creates and thoroughly draws a surrounding entourage of other characters including dragons, ill-intentioned wizards and mad-cat lady witches, with surprisingly sensible cats. And that was only because I had to go to work on Monday during the day. I started reading book one on a Saturday morning and finished book four on the Monday evening. Yes, I'm an adult but I didn't discover these books until I was well beyond youth and I didn't see that this should in any way impede my enjoyment of what everyone seemed to be saying was a great book series. ![]()
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