This series is brilliant! I’ve listened to each book multiple times, and I will continue to listen to them over and over because they are just that good.
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Book 1: Off to be the Wizard
Book 2: Spell And High Water
Book 3: An Unwelcome Quest
A little sum up though…because I know that there’s some people that even though they have the concentration to make it down to the end of this article, they consider opening new tabs to be too much work… so..
There are a group of people that have found a computer file that confirms that the world and existence is actually a computer program, and manipulating this file gives them access to teleportation, stopping ones age, conjuring food and even time travel; some of those that found the file just decided to embrace this whole-heartedly and assume the role of wizards.
Book 1- Centres around Martin Banks, and we follow him finding the file, getting into trouble, introducing hilarious intricate characters, teleporting himself back through time when he’s about to get caught, and then learning that there’s others just like him who found the file before him and start training him on being ‘a wizard’. After a good ¾ s of the story… which by the way they’re just exploring the whole concept and their powers… they find that someone has been trying to make hobbits. Yes, hobbits. And Martin and his friends must try to stop them.
Book 2- Spell And High Water – focuses on Martin and Philip’s journey to the ancient city of Atlantis, which turns out is actually run by a group of female ‘sorcerers’ who like Martin and Phillip also found the file, and are now holding a conference for which all people who found the file and consider themselves time-travellers.
The conference focuses on the effects of time travel and lessening the impact but interwoven between this conference is a murder plot for which Martin and Phillip have to solve.
Book 3- An Unwelcome Quest – would you believe that it has something to do with a quest…that no one wants to go on?
Of course it does.
So, Todd who was formerly in exile (jail) manages to escape, make a life for himself… and then get revenge on those who banished him from his former wizarding title, and sets up a computer game like quest whilst also stripping the main group from their powers.
He’s very clever but also a little thick, as apparent by how he structures the whole quest. It IS simple, and it IS repetitive, but it’s entertaining all the way through.
Luke Daniels does the voice acting for all 3 books and he pulls it off fantastically.
I especially like the way he performs Todd’s character. He manages to get it just right, so much so that you can clearly image exactly what kind of person he is, and at some points in the book you kind of relate to him. He’s the perfect troll…without knowing that he is trolling anyone.
Aa story like this wouldn’t work very well as a movie, or even a TV show, there’s too many inner dialogues and subtleties, and whilst the actual story is fantastic, I feel its explored in exactly the right speed as has been done in the book.
Anyway, I would recommend this to almost everyone, it’s not difficult to understand, it’s funny and light-hearted. Seriously, anyone would enjoy this series.
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