Physik (Septimus Heap #3) by Angie Sage
Publication: Katherine Tegen Books (March 11, 2008), Paperback, 576pp / ISBN 0060577398
Genre: Fantasy, Childrens’/YA
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Read: October 2009
Challenges: Countdown 2010 (2007 #3)
Source: Bought
Series: Book #1 | Book #2 | Book #3 | Book #4
It’s been a while since I read the Septimus Heap #2, and even longer since I read the first. And I had actually tried reading this one a few months ago and couldn’t get through it. Then I got the newest book (#5) in the mail and decided to catch up, so I forced myself through #3.
Summary from Amazon:
When Silas Heap unSeals a forgotten room in the Palace, he releases the ghost of a Queen who lived five hundred years earlier. Queen Etheldredda is as awful in death as she was in life, and she’s still up to no good. Her diabolical plan to give herself everlasting life requires Jenna’s compliance, Septimus’s disappearance, and the talents of her son, Marcellus Pye, a famous Alchemist and Physician. And if Queen Etheldredda’s plot involves Jenna and Septimus, then it will surely involve Nicko, Alther Mella, Marcia Overstrand, Beetle, Stanley, Sarah, Silas, Spit Fyre, Aunt Zelda, and all of the other wacky, wonderful characters that made magyk and flyte so memorable.
With heart-stopping action and a dash of humor, Angie Sage continues the fantastical journey of Septimus Heap.
Okay, I’m sorry, but I had a very hard time finishing this book. It was seriously hard work getting to the middle, where things finally started interesting me and I finally became excited by what was going on. I have no idea why! Does it just start out more slowly than the other books? What’s going on with this one that made it so difficult to get through?
It’s got loads of good stuff in it, even in the bits that bored me. Queen Etheldredda screamed “baddie” as soon as she showed up, and I knew she was planning something evil. It made me really anxious and tense, waiting to see what she was going to do, actually. I love it when villains are proper villains, and it was a nice change from Simon (who I actually feel very sorry for). It’s also got time travel! It’s got alchemy…kind of. It’s got spooky letters and heaps of dragon poo and people not listening to each other and malicious gossip and, oh, okay, that’s probably why I didn’t like this book as much as the others.
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