Magyk - Book Review

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Sage, Angie, and Mark Zug. Magyk. New York: Katherine Tegen, 2006. Print.

“Tell no one you found her. She was born to you. Understand?"
Marcia Overstrand, the ExtraOrdinary wizard who was fond of pointy purple python skin shoes, told this to Silas Heap the night he found a newborn baby girl laying abandoned in the snow. The girl’s name was destined to be Jenna. As Silas got to his door in the Ramblings, he was almost knocked over by the Matron Midwife, who was carrying the seventh son of the seventh son, whose name was Septimus Heap. She ran down the hall crying over and over one word - “dead!”.

Ten years later, Jenna finds out that her mother was assassinated by thugs working for DomDaniel, a Necromancer who wishes to take over the Castle. The Assassin is coming for her. Marcia and Jenna go to Wizard Tower and, at the entrance, find a boy, frozen and barely alive. They take him inside and all he will say is that his name is Boy 412 of the Young Army, an army made of children. Soon Silas, his wolfhound Maxie, and his sixth son, whose name is Nicko, show up. The sextet get out of the Castle, pursued by the Hunter and DomDaniel's apprentice. As soon as they were out of sight of the Castle, DomDaniel showed up. The sextet went to Aunt Zelda’s cottage in the Marram Marshes. Boy 412 found a golden dragon ring that he thought was magykal. Before he jumped off Wizard Tower years before, DomDaniel said to his former apprentice, Alther Mella, “ I will be back with the seventh of the seventh.” Throughout the book, they were helped by the ghost of Alther Mella. Marcia once said “Things have a habit of working out, you know. Eventually.”

In this thrilling opener to the series “Septimus Heap” by Angie Sage, secrets will be revealed. I could not put this hilarious and suspenseful book down and would definitely recommend this book to everyone who wants a seat-of-the-pants adventure, humor, a great plot, fantasy, and magic. This is the world of Septimus Heap. You want magic? This is Magyk.