ghostgirl411 's review for:

The Amulet of Samarkand by Jonathan Stroud
3.0

What is up with this new trend of writing fiction with copious footnotes? Susannah Clarke did it too. Though it worked much better in Jonathan Strange.

I have made it a policy not to read footnotes now (ugh but those little numbers are distracting!) Maybe I'm missing half the book, but shouldn't you be able to convey the information without interrupting the narrative?