A rich jewel of a series
Rating:
5 / 5
A rich jewel of a series: original, imaginative, and wonderfully crafted. If, like me, your tastes in reading lean more towards sci-fi than fantasy, don't be deterred by the title of this terrific series, which begins when a young Idaho boy stumbles upon a hidden cave. Chasing his errant cat, he soon finds that the cave is a gateway to another world, Kimyra, where talking(!) cats are joined by such strange creatures as ribeks, wallacatoons, trolls, and gryphons in a battle between good and evil `wizards.' For the Kimyrans, everything is explainable as `magic,' but thirteen year old Gerrald, a.k.a., `Jarrett' in Kimyran, is a bit of a skeptic, less amenable to accepting explanations involving the supernatural when nature is known to have more tricks up its sleeve than an army of wizards could conjure up in a lifetime of trying. But to get back to Earth, Gerrald will need all the `magic' he can muster to steal two jewel eyes that were stolen from a stone dragon by the evil wizard Mantigore. Together, Wizard Chase, Wizard Girl, and Wizard's End make up one heck of a good tale.
The best unheralded story out there
Rating:
5 / 5
One of the most unique and refreshing stories I have read in quite some time. If Wizard Chase, Wizard Girl, and Wizard's End received even a miniscule fraction of the publicity enjoyed by books from the major publishing houses, it would be an instant best-seller, and we would already have heard about who is being cast for the movie version.
If you truly love innovative, exciting stories, you'll read these books.
Wizard Chase
Rating:
5 / 5
The book was a very very cool and awesome book, I'm 15 right now and I loved this book. This book could be read by someone of all ages. I loved the book in gereral but the only thing I didn't like was the ending. The ending was sad and there should be a way for him to go back. He should be able to go back and see his friends. I think that it would be very very cool if you made a sequel to this book in which he goes back and somehow gets away from the animals and things in his way, the gryphons. I was very mad at the ending, and hope that you will find someway to get Gerrald back to Kimyra.
|