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The Bartimaeus Trilogy
by Jonathan Stroud

# 1---The Amulet Of Samarkand

Don't listen to anyone who compares this series to Harry Potter.
The only similarities are that it's set in England (a very DIFFERENT England!),
& one of the main characters is a 12 year old fledgling magician apprentice.

Magicians run the Governments of the world & England has the best.
These magicians only have powers through the various "Other Place" entities
(demons, imps, djinnis, foliats, etc.) of varying degrees of strength
that they summon as slaves to this world to do their bidding.

The REAL star of the show is an ancient, shape-shifting, 
wise cracking djinni named Bartimaeus.
Chapters of the story are told in his own words 
with some hilarious footnotes.

Bartimaeus is reluctantly summoned by the young magician, 
Nathaniel, for a simple mission of revenge:
Steal a magical item from another magician named Lovelace
who physically & emotionally humiliated him in front of other magicians,
& then to plant it in the study of Nathaniel's cruel master 
who stood by, weakly, and ALLOWED his apprentice to be humiliated.

The problems begin when he chooses 
The Amulet Of Samarkand as the magical item.
People have died because Lovelace wanted this amulet...
But for what reason ?
What powers does it possess & who is Lovelace planning to use them on ?

Little does Nathaniel realize the trouble he is getting himself (& others) into.
Bartimaeus knows the dangers & wants out, 
but the young magician has him in his power with the threat of a spell 
of Indefinite Confinement at the bottom of the Thames River !
What can he do but co-operate and, in so doing,
help Nathaniel save the country & his own 5,000 year old hide ?

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#2--- The Golem's Eye

Review coming soon...

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#3---Ptolemy's Gate 
    I am now awaiting delivery of this final book in the series!:)

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