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Darke (2011)

by Angie Sage(Favorite Author)

4.22 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

006124242X (ISBN13: 9780061242427)

languge

English

genre

Fantasy

publisher

Katherine Tegen Books

series

Septimus Heap

review 1: I started this series several years ago, and had lost my taste for it for a time. However, after rereading a few, then getting to this one (which I hadn't read yet) I remembered just how good these books are. Even if they are written for younger readers, I'm still able to connect to the story and enjoy the book. I'm so glad I gave the series my renewed interest, because I really feel that I would have missed out by not reading this one. Now, you'll have to excuse me, I'm off to read the next and final book in the highly entertaining Septimus Heap series!
review 2: In Darke, the sixth volume of the seven-part Septimus Heap series, Angie Sage gives us an epic Goode vs Darke struggle. And she sets the stage for the final volume. But not in a "this is really part 1... more of 2 way" like Rowling's The Halfblood Prince. It's really all about the villains.In this boy-wizard coming-of-age joined with a girl-princes coming-of-age story, we don't have a recurring bad guy; not in the sense of Harry Potter, or A Series of Unfortunate Events, the Belgariad / Malloreon, Eragon, all 6 Star Wars movies, etc. etc. etc. The villain in the first book is vanquished, giving rise to a second villain in the second book, and ultimately giving rise to the villain of the sixth book by way of a few detours. But now it's crystalized: if you haven't figured out who or what it is at the beginning of Darke you will understand by the end. I doubt Ms. Sage planned this story back when she wrote Magyk, but it's fun to consider that the ultimate villain has been here in the story since the very beginning. Patient readers are also treated to more information about life in the Ramblings, a tumble-down medieval Kowloon Walled City making up the eastern edge of the Castle complex. It seemed like the Ramblings would be an important part of the world in the early pages of Magyk, but we really haven't spent much time there, not until now. In my review of Queste I remarked that there are 2 places in the series where someone (a goode guy) needs to gravely hurt a living person (ghosts don't count) and this is the second of them. It has the feel of a Grimm fairy tale about it. And as with Queste, just because our heroes have to do it, doesn't mean they have to like it. It's a subtle point, but one I appreciated. less

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