readaroundtherosie 's review for:

The Golden Tower by Holly Black

2.0

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ooooooooooooooooook. So.

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These kids literally only spent 2.5 years out of their 5 years actually in school. The entire series is utterly too short. The romance (if it can be called that) is forced. The magic was cool but they really didn't explore it well enough. The Harry Potter parallels are far too obvious to overlook. And all of the characters - kids and adults in charge (and calling them adults is incredibly loose because they were just as immature as the kids) - never asked the right questions.