book information:
ISBN: 978-3-802582646
Publisher: Egmont Lyx
language: German / September 2010
Price: 12.95
Pages: 439
Summary (Source: Amazon) :
London 1897th During a magic show stage magicians Ravenwood suffers a breakdown and soon afterwards hunted by shadowy figures and fatally injured. The young reporter Jonathan Kentham finds the dying Ravenwood, and this gives him a magic gem. Soon, Jonathan must find that the world has changed. A group of wizards has in the ruins of the lost Atlantis opens an ancient seal, to herald a new age of magic ...
My opinion:
When I started with the book and found that the prologue has already covered 37 pages includes only I: Oh, help, because, these 37 pages I do not even cast a spell. But no sooner started the main part, it plays both in London and in Scotland, every feeling of boredom was pursuing, because from there everything happened very fast. It is exciting, with hardly a pause for breath, the protagonist or the reader, so that I could hardly put it down. Nonetheless, you realize very clearly that this is only the beginning of a series, because the real problem that must solve the Order of the Magi and the protagonists in particular, is only the background to the story telling here, and it acts as a-successful introduction into the world of Perplies described in the context of the political events of 1897 and the cliffhanger at the end only further underlines this.
addition to a thrilling storyline, the book traces but also by authentic and sympathetic characters that have particularly Jonathan Holmes and myself really wrapped around her little finger. Holmes, with his exaggerated, eccentric core but also very cool and that we find some parallels to the hero of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, has not bothered me at all. Rounding
it is from a very successful cover that, though rather plain, very good for the story fits. The two cards in the core, and a list of persons were sometimes helpful.
On the whole me, "For the Crown" very much and is finally a series opener, where the appearance of the next volume I can not wait. There are since long time by myself rather rare awarded 9.5 out of 10 points .
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