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Magical!!

Reviewed in India on 5 April 2021

‘We’ve got great architecture,’ he continued. ‘Lovely restaurants. Reasonably reliable public transport. The climate’s great – cold in winter, not-cold in not-winter. Much as you’d expect. Oh, and the beaches! The beaches.’ He looked thoughtful. ‘The beaches are rubbish, actually, but you can’t have everything.’

If you are looking for a fun, light yet engrossing read, go for this one. The imagination in the book is fascinating. There is humour in the writing style. The attention to detail in the world building is impeccable.

So glad I picked this book. I enjoyed my time reading it.

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Rajatm

Boring in the middle, Harry Potter rip-off, great climax

Reviewed in India on 10 March 2019

It is well-written but I got extremely bored till the climax came along. The similarities to Harry Potter are unending.... and after a point get irritating... I liked the idea of the trials (though that may have been inspired by the Hunger Games!!) and the writing is actually very good and Jessica Townsend evokes some great images. The worlds she creates are never as complete, credible or satisfying as the world of Harry Potter, but then, not everyone is JK Rowling...
Honestly, four stars for the writing but one star for all the hype and for borrowing ideas from Harry Potter...

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Rajatm

Boring in the middle, Harry Potter rip-off, great climax

Reviewed in India on 10 March 2019

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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 6 August 2018

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Majority of the book is so slow, I didn’t find myself gripped to the story at all and I kept putting down for a while. Middle grade is usually a genre that I find fun and gripping and an easy read, I usually fly through it. I found the last 70-80 pages were the best part of the entire novel, the story picked up and was actually interesting for a bit.

The writing style is just meh? Nothing particularly great about it, the story itself was pretty flat and wasn’t very unique or creative. I don’t understand the praise surrounding this book at all…
The ending/ final trial was a complete cop-out, in my opinion. Left me pretty damn disappointed. The ‘plot twists’ were just meh, nothing shocking.

The world itself was the most interesting part, in my opinion, Nevermoor seems like such a weird and wonderful place. I am interested in knowing more about it so I really hope the next book has more worldbuilding.

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A matter of taste!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 3 July 2019

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My 11 year old granddaughter didn't like it!

Michael

Enjoyable but a little too formulaic

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 7 May 2018

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Enjoyable yarn

Vale

Not crazy about it...

Reviewed in Italy on 27 July 2020

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Nice beginning, some nice characters, but... Strange pace, sometimes rushed, sometimes slow.
Overall, there were things I liked, but mostly I was bored. And it's very predictable.
I think this book needed much-much more professional editing. Nice, but nothing special for me, sorry.

Leather DeBoeuf

Un peu long mais bel univers

Reviewed in France on 2 June 2021

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J'ai trouvé le démarrage du livre assez lent, et j'ai failli abandonner plusieurs fois. Ça ressemble à beaucoup de livres du genre : à savoir du mystère, des secrets, de la retention d'information pendant 350 pages, et enfin des révélations.
Mais les rebondissements sont bien trouvés, l'univers est très fouillé, amusant, très original, parfois saugrenu comme peuvent l'être des romans anglais.
Les épreuves et la fin du livre sont plus rythmées et plus intéressantes que de nombreux autres passages qui ne servent qu'à rehausser le décor et alourdir le livre, que j'ai trouvé beaucoup trop long.
J'ai aussi été souvent freiné dans ma lecture par la richesse du vocabulaire et les trop nombreuses descriptions.
Je ne lirai pas la suite car même si l'intrigue principale me plait beaucoup je trouve ça trop pénible à lire.
J'attendrai les adaptations en film, qui ne manqueront pas d'être spectaculaires.

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Middling

Reviewed in Canada on 1 February 2019

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Well written but the characters were formulaic and gave the reader nothing new. The magical elements were borrowed from better works. Overall, there just wasn't much originality. Will not be reading the 2nd in the series.

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Sol

Falla el ritmo

Reviewed in Spain on 2 May 2021

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Para un libro de este estilo, me resultó un poco lento a ratos. Es imaginativo y la idea es buena, pero algo más de ritmo le iría bien

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Carsten Kuhr

Buch toll Amazon leider nicht

Reviewed in Germany on 20 May 2021

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Buch ist toll, nur hat Amazon beim Verpacken die Pappe ans Buch geklebt - da es ein Geschenk ist war ich 1 Stunde beschäftigt den Kleber zu entfernen

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Plodded on...

Reviewed in Canada on 16 January 2019

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I almost gave up and did not finish it, the character and plot development was too slow for me. The magic system did not impress me so much, but I did have favorite characters. It did finally pick up and showed promise towards the end but then it is a series and I will be reading the next one to find out what happened.

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