Angie Sage: Magyk review

I have started to take random fantasy books from the library just to check their potential. This book I took from the youth section and it was a positive surprise.
The family Heap has always been a wizard family. When they lose their seventh son Septimus, the father Silas Heap founds a baby girl from the snow. He is told by the ExtraOrdinary Wizard Marcia to take the child as their own.
Ten years later it is discovered that the girl, Jenna, is in fact the daughter of the murdered Queen, a Princess who would inherit the crown. Evil ex-wizard and Neuromancer DomDaniel is hunting down the princess who must escape along with the rest of the family and a little guard boy resqued from the snow.

The narration style strongly puts this book among the youth fantasy tales but I can assure you that even older reader could find this amusing and interesting. The character descriptions are vivid and the story flows well. Even though some events are really easy to guess, it doesn't bother as much as it could.
But when the book is officially called Septimus Heap, book 1: Magyk you don't need to be a rocket scientist to realise that perhaps Septimus didn't die like they claimed...

So far this book and the series seems to be for those youngsters who also like Harry Potter series. There are some connections to Potter as well as a plotline and motive that's from Tolkien, but in fantasy genre who wouldn't have borrowed something from Tolkien?

/ [Caterin S.]

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