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Wundersmith: The Calling of Morrigan Crow
by Jessica Townsend
Its tiredsome how some people tries to compare this with the epic Harry Potter series. This book is not even close to the writings of J.K Rowling. The writer has been inspired by HP it seems though. I can imagine its hard as a childrens book author not to write plot twist we have seen many times in HP. So with that said, this second book was a snooze party. It was way to easy to predict (thanks to HP). I predicted the "super nice" cartography teacher probably would turn out evil as we have seen in the HP series. I predicted these special alleys was a set up for something along the lines of the Keys in the HP book nr 4, where Harry touched the prize cup and ended up in the presense of Voldemort. Even Morrigan has key characteristics of Harry Potter. She is "abondened" by her family who "hates" her. She has special powers albeit she thought she was cursed etc. So its too much HP copying for my taste.
Some things were irrational aswell. Morrigan has a huge power but she is to not learn how to harness it at all. And no one, not even her new "dad" even questions this?! Its absurd. The whole book was super boring because of this aswell. There is a build up in book 1 and then book two, a huge anticlimax is what it is. A whole school year with Morrigan doing nothing.
Her first teacher abuses her verbally and psychologically for a whole year and calls her evil etc and puts her through shit for a year, but she won't even tell this to anyone, that was truly absurd actually.
One more very absurd thing is this "mesmerist". Some sort of "Kilgrave" we have seen in the Marvel series Jessica Jones. A mesmerist got to be the most dangerous "thing" eve. Yet this girl is treated as if her Huge power is just her whispering sweetness in peoples ears or something. She can fricking make people do ANYTHING she wants to!
I will never trust reviews at goodreads again, adults who have given this unoriginal book 5 stars?, Like, How? Ugh..
Some things were irrational aswell. Morrigan has a huge power but she is to not learn how to harness it at all. And no one, not even her new "dad" even questions this?! Its absurd. The whole book was super boring because of this aswell. There is a build up in book 1 and then book two, a huge anticlimax is what it is. A whole school year with Morrigan doing nothing.
Her first teacher abuses her verbally and psychologically for a whole year and calls her evil etc and puts her through shit for a year, but she won't even tell this to anyone, that was truly absurd actually.
One more very absurd thing is this "mesmerist". Some sort of "Kilgrave" we have seen in the Marvel series Jessica Jones. A mesmerist got to be the most dangerous "thing" eve. Yet this girl is treated as if her Huge power is just her whispering sweetness in peoples ears or something. She can fricking make people do ANYTHING she wants to!
I will never trust reviews at goodreads again, adults who have given this unoriginal book 5 stars?, Like, How? Ugh..