DomDaniel the Necromancer has been thwarted. Septimus Heap is now apprentice to the ExtraOrdinary Wizard and Jenna, The Princess Jenna, is back in the palace life should be a little calmer. It should be, but it isn’t.
Someone in the Heap family is a traitor, a traitor that is helping DomDaniel the Necromancer, helping to bring him back to the living, and only Septimus and Jenna believe it. That is until the traitor kidnaps the Princess.
Now with his limited knowledge of magic, Septimus must rescue the Princess, but there are a lot of challenges ahead of him that won’t make it easy!
Compared to the first book Magyk, this next chapter of the
Septimus Heap series is flying leaps better (and I liked the first book). Flyte (Septimus Heap, Book 2)
After reading this book, it is apparent that Angie Sage has only started to show us the Heap’s world. I only hope that each additional book is better than the last! In my review of Magyk I said that the characters were overly silly, but in Flyte that isn’t an issue at all. This time we get to know the characters better, more intimately, and this adds more depth to the characters. It makes them more real, in my opinion.
I did mention peril and yes, Flyte is full of it. Yes, it is fun peril and that means: dangerous fun! And if your mom was like mine and didn’t let you do all of the “dangerously fun stuff” and you could only experience it through books; really, what is better than dangerously fun stuff in a book? (by the way, I do still have all of my toes and fingers, so “thanks and love ya, Mom.”)
Flyte is a quick read, despite its page count of 500+. The action, characters, and humor move the story along and you will have finished the book before you know it.
I give Flyte 4.5 stars out of 5.
It is a good book, but not a 4.5. I think the author should have more twists, maby a betrayal.
Posted by: Mckay Moulton | 03/04/2010 at 08:53 PM