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A review by roxanamalinachirila
Arcanum 101 by Mercedes Lackey, Rosemary Edghill
1.0
This book is readable, which, I believe, is one of its few qualities.
It resembles:
- Harry Potter (from the point of view of kids in a magic school), with the plot and the characters removed
- romance novels (from the point of view of rich pampering environments), but with the fun of romance removed
- Hollywood cliches used to fill in the part of the story that isn't relevant. Here, no part of the story is relevant.
- every other fantasy novel out there, because it inserts "different" elves and fairies, yet I couldn't care less about them
All in all, this will be the end of my reading YA for some time.
It resembles:
- Harry Potter (from the point of view of kids in a magic school), with the plot and the characters removed
- romance novels (from the point of view of rich pampering environments), but with the fun of romance removed
- Hollywood cliches used to fill in the part of the story that isn't relevant. Here, no part of the story is relevant.
- every other fantasy novel out there, because it inserts "different" elves and fairies, yet I couldn't care less about them
All in all, this will be the end of my reading YA for some time.