davidaolson 's review for:

The Amulet of Samarkand by Jonathan Stroud
5.0

Great children's book. Definitely getting the sequels.

They might make it into a movie, maybe, but I can't imagine it will work well since the characters are a bit morally ambiguous, and it might be harder to explain in a movie. Evem looking at the other reviews for this book you can see that a common complaint is that the characters aren't exactly sympathetic. Also, it would be hard to get the sarcastic footnotes right in a movie.