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The Bronze King (The Sorcery Hall Trilogy, Book 1)

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This is one of the books I keep as a treasure. A young girl makes a wish in a river--and gets a surprising answer. Together, three people must work to save NYC from a monstrous kraken that has worn down the protections of the city. This is a heart warming story with plenty of teary-eyed moments. I started this series with the second book, but this is my favorite of the three. It's a coming of age story, with adventure and magic mixed in. For those girls who've read Harry Potter and want something a little older and more female focused, this might be just your thing.

The Bronze King by Suzy Mckee Charnas . The Bronze King did not win an award even though it should have in my opinion. This book is about a fearsome enemy called a kraken who tries to eat New York. Only a wizard named Pavvo and his friends Tina and Joel can stop it. I really think this book should win an award because of descriptive text like"Something reared up out of the water up,up and up.It was huge and glistery wet in the moonlight, black as ink and roaring. Water steamed off it and its eyes were hot red sparks set high in its towering shape".

This book is what every fantasy should be like. It's perfect, exciting, funny and thoroughly wonderful. All fantasy fans and fans of New York City should read this book!

The first thing about this book that bugged me was the fact that it had extremely undescriptive writing. 'I saw my mom. She slapped me so hard I saw stars.' Doesn't say much, does it?
I find the plot to be very steriotypical: there is a big monster that's going to destroy the whole world, and you're the ONLY ONE who can stop it!
Also, the characters seem to have almost no personality. I had to write a book report on this book, and when they asked, the only difference that I could find between Joel and Paavo was that Paavo smoked tobacco, and Joel smoked marijuana. I think that speaks for itself.
And one last thing, it bugged me when, when the monster was there, she threw her little coin purse at it that was full of silver coins that her Grandma gave her! Like that's going to do anything. What a waste.

Not only was this book one of the typical, some little fourteen-year-old-girl-has-to-save-the-world-or-it-will-all-be-destroyed book, which it was, but also the writing was REALLY undescriptive. I don't have an example right now, because I had to borrow the book from the teacher, but I can remember that it was really annoying, to the point where I actually noticed, which is really saying something.
And sometimes, people did really stupid things that they knew would have had no effect whatsoever, like at the end, when the monster was in the water, she threw her wallet at it, which was full of silver coins that her grandma gave to her! Useful. I would have done that, too...
And if I came home and the linoleum from the kitchen floor was gone, I would be at least sort of freaked out...