Who is this frozen child-soldier "Boy 412" that stumbles into the care of the Heap family? Why does Aunt Zelda stay out in marshes, a pretty unpleasant place? Will they be able to rescue DomDaniel's Apprentice, and will they want him after they do? And of course, what happens when DomDaniel discovers that the young queen is still alive?Īngie Sage has written several children's books before she wrote Magyk and it shows. And the evil wizard DomDaniel actually had the midwife kidnap Septimus to be HIS apprentice. Of course, the baby Jenna, who grows to girlhood in the Heap family, is the missing Queen. And shortly finding out that the Queen has been killed by the evil DomDaniel, and the "Queenling" baby is missing.
And the ExtraOrdinary Wizard.īut let us start at the beginning, with midwife running out with newborn Septimus Heap (seventh son of a seventh son) crying "Dead! Dead!" And Silas, the baby's father, finding a baby girl in the snow as he's coming home, and handing her to his distraught wife. Well, there used to be, but it was shut down by an evil wizard. Of course, the only similarity to the Potter books is that it is written for a younger audience, and it is a fantasy about wizards. 564 pages thick) has on the cover SEPTIMUS HEAP BOOK ONE and of course titled Magyk This improbably sized book (it is about the height and width of a standard mass-market paperback, but thick. DomDaniel, in his quest for power and the throne, is killing off the royal family and has kidnapped a boy who he believes is the seventh son of a seventh son and therefore in possession of great magical power, in an effort to achieve this.Shades of Harry Potter and Dianna Wynn Jones. Burning taverns, boat chases, swamps, Quake Ooze Brownies, magyk and reverse Darke Magyk follow the group as they are pursed by DomDaniel, the (presumed dead) ExtraOrdinary Wizard Alther was apprenticed to in his youth. When, ten years later the Supreme Custodian's spy locates the Princess and sends The Assassin to finally end the royal line, the story, as well as the Heaps, Marcia Overcross and Boy 412, a near frozen sentry from the Young Army, a rag-tag group of orphan boys, takes off. The Heap family, having just experienced the loss of their newborn seventh son, gladly takes her in. Marcia Overcross, assistant to Alther and now that he is dead, ExtraOrdinary Wizard, secrets the infant to safety and ensures that she will be raised in a loving family. Offstage, the Queen, who has just borne a daughter, and the ExtraOrdinary Wizard, Alther Mella have been murdered. The story begins with the birth of a boy and a girl on a cold, dark night.
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