You need to sign in or sign up before continuing.

telthor 's review for:

The Amulet of Samarkand by Jonathan Stroud
4.0

Three and a half. Also I'm very tired and this will be short.

Enjoyable, fast paced, really a terrifically fun read, but also somehow distracted. Partly because it couldn't decide if it was a first or third person book, partly because it blitzed between perspectives without really letting the reader understand either--Nathaniel's chapters were a bit stronger than Bartimaeus's, as the djinni's chapters are really just endless snark.

But if you turn your brain off, it's a pretty fun ride.