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Sto caricando le informazioni... The Steps Up the Chimney (Magician's House quartet) (originale 1990; edizione 1991)di William Corlett
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William, Mary and Alice Constant have come to spend Christmas with their uncle as their parents are working abroad. Little by little, they discover that things in this remote old house are not quite what they seem. There are powerful forces at work, calling to the children from across the centuries; forces that pull them up the hidden steps in the chimney to the secret room where the magician lives Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)823.914Literature English English fiction Modern Period 1901-1999 1945-1999Classificazione LCVotoMedia:
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What we have here is essentially the children's introduction to an interesting historical house (presumably the key location for the rest of the series), meeting their adult mentor figures for the series, discovery of their role in a magical adventure they don't actually understand yet, and what you might call a test-run adventure that introduces the sorts of things they might be doing. Fairly standard fare, competently done.
I would say that this felt very much like one book in a quartet, rather than one book in a four-part series. While there were some events, it felt mostly like setup for the later books, rather than an arc of its own that was closed. As such, it was a bit unsatisfying to read in isolation. It feels unfair to penalise it for that, so I won't, but it's worth noting that some authors manage to avoid this and make each book a full story. Again, though, it's a children's book and thus both relatively short and relatively simple.
It was decent, I don't regret reading it, I wouldn't refuse to read another one, nor do I plan to look for them, so it gets a 3.
One odd thing: at one point a character says "poop". This really threw me out, because I've never heard a Brit use this word and can only view it as an Americanism, so the sense of Britishness wobbled violently. No idea why it ended up in this story... ( )