The Amulet of Samarkand

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The Amulet of Samarkand

In the Amulet of Samarkand you follow Nathaniel, a apprentice magician. Though the world might be somewhat like ours, magicians are common; djinns and other demons are summoned and used in different situations. 

As a 10 year old, Nathaniel is humiliated by the older wizard Simon Lovelace, and later on he teaches himself the ways of summoning through the books of Mr. Underwood, the man that adopted him while little.

To get his revenge upon Lovelace, Nathaniel summons the djinn Bartimaeus, a 5000 year old djinn that previously had a master in old Egypt. Events occur that does not go the way Nathaniel wants them too, for example that Bartimaeus does not wish to help his new master.

The Amulet of Samarkand is a very entertaining fantasy book for young adults, and it has sequels, The Golem’s Eye and Ptolemys gate which both might be featured later in this blog. 

I recommend everyone to read the whole series, as it is well written and entertaining. 

Jonathan Stroud have written several books, and he should have pusblished book number 4 in 2010 which did not occur as far as I know and can find out. 

A full plot summary of the book can be found here.

I will rate the Amulet of Samarkand 4 out of 6 possible stars. 

Additional information:

Author: Jonathan Stroud
Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
Series: The Bartimaeus Trilogy
Genre: Fantasy Novel
Publisher: Doubleday
Publication year: 2003
Pages: 462

Carrie

So I finally made myself start writing on the blog. My first review will be the book Carrie by Stephen King.

Carrie

Carrie White is a small girl that is not very popular at school. Her mother is a crazy and very abusive christian and (mostly) due to this all her classmates take every possible oportunity to make her feel worse. I will give one specific example from the book; when Carrie has her first period. She has no idea of what is going on, and thinks she is about to die. Her classmates which should help her or tell her what is going on, instead uses this as a oportunity to harass her more. King has written the book in such way, you do know that when Carrie slowly starts to feel better in the end, you can at the same time feel something is about to happen. You have this feeling pretty much through the entire book. Sadly for Carries classmates, her mom and pretty much everyone else in her town is unaware of Carries potential when enough finally is enough.

I will not spoil more, but if you are interested a plot summary can be found here.

Carrie has been made into a movie. I have not seen it, but I've heard it is one of the best films based upon Stephen King's books (after seeing The Mist I don't find this hard to believe). Link to the film on Wikipedia is here.



Stephen King started his career with this book, which I recommend all Fantasy fans to read. It is also a very nice introduction to Stephen King's books in general. Carrie is a easy read, and before engaging some of his greater works, reading Carrie is a good idea.


I will rate Carrie 4.5 out of 6 stars.

Other Information about Carrie:

Author: Stephen King

Country: United States
Language: English

Genre(s): Horror, epistolary novel

Publisher: Doubleday

Publication date: April 5, 1974

Pages: 253

Do you wish to read Carrie? It can be bought on Amazon as hardcover or for Kindle Ebook here!

The Fantasy Guide

Even though I just created this, the layout is kinda horrible and I'm tired as hell, I'm going to introduce you to my new blog.

It's called the Fantasy Guide, and that's because I'm going to review fantasy, sci-fi and probably some other books, give them grades and tell you wether it's worth to read or not. And I'm not only going to take a look on new books, but I will also take a look at old books as well, giving my impressions on both new and coming titles as well as titles going back to Lovecraft and maybe even further behind.

So before I start giving you book reviews, I will make sure you know what kind of authors I like, though I can guarantee you that I will listen to you if you want a opinion on a book before you read, or want to see another person's opinion.

My current favourites are:

• Stephen King
• Robert Jordan
• Dan Brown
• Stephen King
• Tolkien
• Terry Goodkind
• Stephen King.
• And of course more.

In addition I will try and keep all information about anything I post as easily obtainable as possible. Wikis, information about authors, and maybe even stores will probably be available in each post in the future.

So I wish you all welcome to my blog. I will do my best to keep it updated enough to keep readers interested.

Now, I will probably get some sleep before I hopefully can give you the first recommendation tommorow (I'm starting with my favourite series, you can all guess which).

Wish me luck ;)