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any content in today's video I'm going
to do a spoiler free review of the
novice by Taran Matharu this is the
first book in the summoner series and
this is a YA slash middle grade
fantasy series so I read this recently
and I loved it oh my gosh I think this
is my new favorite sort of middle grade
YA fantasy series it was so much fun
okay so in this first book we follow the
main character Fletcher now he is an
orphan and is brought up as a
blacksmith apprentice and at the
beginning of the book they are at the
market and this other character is
selling a mystical book of runes and no
one can really read these runes but the
guy selling it tells this epic story of
how this book is supposed to summon
demons if the people if the person who
can read it read aloud these runes that
they get selling demons and so it ends
up in Fletcher's possession and on a
whim he tries to read the runes in this
book and lo and behold he summons a
demon a little dragon called Ignatius who
is small enough to sit on his shoulder
the magic system in this is all
about demons and the summoners are able
to summon these demons from another
world and they become sort of their
companions / weapons so it's kind of
like Pokemon in a way because the demons
battle each other but then they're very
close to the wizard with the summoner in
this case so it reminds me kind of like
Pokemon meets Harry Potter meets Lord of
the Rings I think that is a good
description of the series and so then
after he summons this demon Fletcher is
whisked away at a magic school for
summoners where he learns to harness
his abilities of being a summoner and
we get you very much get the whole
magical school setting like in Harry
Potter where we get to see the classes
that he takes and the teachers and
everything and it's great it reminds me
so much of Harry Potter and that feel
and I loved it and there's clear
politics in this whole world basically
the purpose of the Summoner school is
for them to form an army to
fight against the orcs in an ongoing war
against humans and orcs and then there's
also the elves so we have all of these
classes humans elves dwarves and orcs
and everyone is kind of fighting the
orcs but then there are some racial
tensions between dwarves and elves and
humans and dwarves and if everyone
there's a lot of talk about politics
between their different races as well
and so the plot revolves around Fletcher
learning these skills and then at the
end of the book at the end of the school
year they are undergoing this sort of
competition between the summoners to be
elected the winner and for them to be
pushed forward to go into the war to
become like a lieutenant lieutenant yes
lieutenant or something like that I
forgot the exact term but basically
they're pushed quicker into the war
because usually they would need training
for about three or four years but
because of this war that is happening
they've they reduced that time and so
they're kind of like immediately pushed
forward to already take part in this
upcoming war against the orcs and I
really really love the tournament it was
very much reminiscent of the Triwizard
Tournament in Goblet of Fire which
Goblet of Fire is my favorite Harry Potter
book because of that tournament and so
that part is awesome and I really really
loved it and also the demons and all the
different the mythology behind the
demons and the lore behind them is so
cool and I really really love seeing
what sort of demons everyone had and how
they got to have these demons because
obviously there's different levels of
demons and so a very low level summoner
can only summon you know like beetles
kind of which were some of the demons of
some of Fletcher's friends they were
kind of these flying beetles but they
were
see like they say they would fit inside
of your palm so they would be obviously
a lot bigger than a normal beetle but
that's kind of how they were described
and then of course there's Oh Othello
has this really cool demon he's like if
you ever played wow he's like one of
those rock minions kind of kind of thing
he's basically a rock dude like a
literal dude made of rocks and he like
follows Othello around I thought that
was really funny and of course Ignatius
Fletcher's dragon also is really cute
and yeah there's some really really
interesting creatures that some other
characters have as demons and I just
want to know more about that like I want
to see more summoners with their demons
I thought that was such a cool part and
so I gave this about 4 out of 5 stars on
goodreads simply because I feel like it
was pretty slow in the beginning but it
definitely picks up around the middle
and the end is really really
action-packed but I did feel like it was
a bit difficult to get into at first
just because it was very slow and there
wasn't a lot of the magic involved in
the beginning so it was just a little
bit slow for a first couple of chapters
but it picks up rather quickly after
that and so I think this is a great
start for this fantasy series and I
cannot wait to read the rest it was a
very quick read as well and the writing
was really nice I really liked the
characters as well obviously Fletcher is
great but so was his friend Othello the
dwarf he was also really cool and Silvia
the elf I also think is really funny but
the back of the book is blurb by a booktuber
Benjamin of tomes and he
says this book is going to be huge when
did this come out because that's kind of
cool honestly this came out in 2015 ok I
guess booktube was already kind of big
back then I think I was watching it but
I don't really remember exactly but I
just think it's cool that it's blurbed by
a booktuber if anyone wants me to blurb
their book please please let me know I'm
probably too small for something like
that but you never know you never know
just putting it out there into the
universe maybe it will happen but yes I
really really like this book and I like
I said I can always read the rest of the
series and I would really
recommended if you like the sort of
YA fantasy full of
action and with a really really cool
magic system and of course the whole
magical school setting that is a big
selling point to me and I think it
should be for you as well because it's
done really well yes I think that is
everything that I wanted to say about
this today I want to keep this pretty
short and just give you my general
thoughts on this book and to give you
guys a recommendation obviously I
recommend this book and of course there
will be a link in the description if you
want to go purchase it if you're
interested but I'm definitely going to
pick up the rest of the series as soon
as possible and probably do a full
series review once I've read all of the
books so if you've read The Novice or
the rest of the series do let me know
what you think of it or if it sounds
like something you'll be interested in
reading do let me know that as well and
yeah I think that's it for today so I
hope you have a great day and I'll see
you next week bye
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