The story that TJ Klune spins is vaguely ordinary so readers, which are mostly children, do not feel threatened by the characters, but also vaguely strange so that we read on wondering how it will end. Believe me, I will not spoil the ending for you, but I will try to pique your interest because some readers will like the plot of this book a lot. Many fantasies being written today are dark dystopias, excuses for dark and violent battles between good and evil. This is not one of them. Given that we have somewhat survived a two-year battle with a pandemic, most dystopias have lost readers. Not the case with this one. The book belongs to the genre of fantasy, with the adults being somewhat identifiable as normal human beings and the children in the book being unidentifiable as normal human beings. Then again, many people don't view children as normal human beings. For self-survival, I read the book and then decided to write about it. Many book clubs have read the book, and I have been asked repetitively what I thought of it. I exercised my option to write about a different book than I had forecasted last month.
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