Reviews - The Magician of Tiger Castle

294 reviews for:

The Magician of Tiger Castle

Louis Sachar

3.68 AVERAGE

alasia's review against another edition

2.0

sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

courtneycarmona's review against another edition

4.25

adventurous sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

zedh's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous lighthearted

andpeggy's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous emotional hopeful fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

agwood32's review against another edition

4.0

helllll yeah, we love a seasoned author who actually researches history for their fantasy writing.

i feel like the majority of the fantasy genre is split between dense, historically rich, thousand-paged tomes, which are also boring, racist, imperialist, and misogynistic as fuck, vs. grown up ao3 girlies who have hot monster men situated in aesthetic, nonsensical kingdoms, which at best, is campy and not that serious, but at its worst, is derivative and formulaic, not to mention frequently racist, imperialist, and ALSO misogynistic as fuck.

every once in a while, i find a gem of a fantastical, based, well-written, well-researched, telling of a tale. i love a good tale <3

who gives a fuck if it wasn't "adult" enough to be marketed as an adult novel? what does "adult" even meannn?

also i literally lovedddd sideways stories from wayside school. i'm reading it right now for a middle grade book group i run, and i'm CACKLING.