Shadowmancer
by G. P. Taylor
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Author: G. P. TaylorEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2004-04-26
ISBN: 0399242562
Number of pages: 304
Reading Level: Young Adult
Publisher: Putnam Juvenile
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Book Review: I wish people would stop comparing everything to Harry Potter and the Lord of the Rings
Summary: 4 Stars
First off I want to say that if you were directed to this book because you like Harry Potter or The Lord of the Rings, You'll be disappointed and a little hacked. If I were forced, and I mean FORCED to draw a comparison, it would be to C.S. Lewis and Susan Cooper.This book resembles H.P. and LTR like a scorpian resembles a puppy.
That being said, I really liked it.
This book is obiviously christian and is about the fight between good and evil with the typical David and Golith theme. But on the other hand if it was easy, it wouldn't make a good story.
The setting is vaguely medieval and vaguely England. The main characters are who you would expect to see in a Christian fantasy. There is the god-forsaking villian, his souless and pathetic minion, the fallen woman, a motherless tween boy and his friend, a smuggler,and a stranger from a far away land.
I find that it is well plotted and an easy read. If I were to say this was a read alike for any book, I would say fans of C.S. Lewis and especially the Screwtape Letters as well as Narnia would enjoy this story. Also fans of Susan Cooper and her "Dark is Rising" series may well enjoy "Shadowmancer".
I don't think that people who like Harry Potter would like Shadowmancer and I can't quite tell why anyone would say that it's a read-alike. I certainly wouldn't say it's a read-alike for the LTR either.
Summary of Shadowmancer
#1 New York Times Bestseller!An apocalyptic battle between good and evil is vigorously, violently fought in British author G.P. Taylor's suspenseful, action-packed fantasy. The story, set in the 1700s on the Yorkshire coastline, revolves around Vicar Obadiah Demurral, a corrupt-but-inept, dead-conjuring "shadowmancer" who desires to control the universe by overthrowing God, or Riathamus. When two hard-luck near-orphans, (13-year-old Thomas Barrick, a bitter enemy of Demurral, and his troubled friend Kate Coglund) band together with a young African stranger named Raphah, they spend the rest of the book trying to stop the wicked Vicar as if their very souls are at stake...they are. Along the way, the three youths meet an enormous cast of friends and foes, some agents of Riathamus, others of Satan (Pyratheon), and some godless (but not for long) smugglers like Jacob Crane.
Readers who love fanciful storybook characters will find mermaidlike Seloth, smelly hobs, leg-dragging servants, goodhearted whores, and benevolent boggles. Age-old superstitions abound, though old magic and witchcraft are clearly denounced here as the work of the devil. Indeed, the author, an English vicar himself, tells a very Christian story and his often deliciously dramatic adventure lapses into stiffly presented glowing-halo Touched by an Angel moments(readers will be lured into the Enchanted Forest, but tricked into Sunday school). Nonetheless, Shadowmancer, the first of a series, is a pageturner bursting with magic and myth, and will appeal to fantasy lovers who don't mind the Bible mixed in with their boggles. (Ages 11 and older) --Karin Snelson
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