• The Hobbit – Reviewing Classics

    Overall Rating: ★ Rating:91 Fullstar:4 Star Piece:0.55 Fraction:4.55★ Rating:91 Fullstar:4 Star Piece:0.55 Fraction:4.55★ Rating:91 Fullstar:4 Star Piece:0.55 Fraction:4.55★ Rating:91 Fullstar:4 Star Piece:0.55 Fraction:4.55½ Rating:91 Star Piece:0.55 Fraction:4.5591%
    The Hobbit
    J.R.R. Tolkein
    George Allen & Unwin, 1937
    Fantasy
    ISBN: 0618968636
    320 pages

    Synopsis

    Bilbo Baggins, the hobbit, is a peaceful sort of cozy hole in the Shire, a place where adventures are uncommon and rather unwanted. So when the wizard Gandalf whisks him away on a treasure hunting expedition with a troop of rowdy dwarves, he’s not entirely thrilled. Encountering ruthless trolls, beastly orcs, gigantic spiders, and hungry wolves, Bilbo discovers within himself astonishing strength and courage. And at the ultimate confrontation with the fearsome dragon Smaug, the hobbit will brave the dangers of dark and dragon fire alone and unaided.

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    The Farthest Shore – Reviewing Classics

    Overall Rating: ★ Rating:76 Fullstar:3 Star Piece:0.8 Fraction:3.8★ Rating:76 Fullstar:3 Star Piece:0.8 Fraction:3.8★ Rating:76 Fullstar:3 Star Piece:0.8 Fraction:3.8½ Rating:76 Star Piece:0.8 Fraction:3.8☆ Rating:76 Fraction:3.876%
    The Farthest Shore (The Earthsea Cycle, Book 3)
    Ursula Le Guin
    Atheneum Books, 1972
    Fantasy
    ISBN: 141650964X
    272 Pages

    Synopsis

    Magic is disappearing from the outer edges of the world of Earth Sea, and it’s soon apparent that a great darkness is overtaking the land. People are hurtled into hopeless and despair, and many are losing their lives in consecutive drug trips where they seek to find the master who can grant eternal life, only to soon die from brain damage and starvation.

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    Thirteenth Child

    Overall Rating: ★ Rating:81 Fullstar:4 Star Piece:0.050000000000001 Fraction:4.05★ Rating:81 Fullstar:4 Star Piece:0.050000000000001 Fraction:4.05★ Rating:81 Fullstar:4 Star Piece:0.050000000000001 Fraction:4.05★ Rating:81 Fullstar:4 Star Piece:0.050000000000001 Fraction:4.05☆ Rating:81 Fraction:4.0581%
    Thirteenth Child (Frontier Magic, Book 1)
    Patricia C. Wrede
    Scholastic Press, 2009
    Fantasy
    ISBN: 054503342X
    320 pages

    Synopsis

    Eff was born the thirteenth child in a magical family, her brother Lan, born fourteenth and the seventh son of a seventh son. This means that Lan will have natural amazing magical powers, and Eff will be doomed to bring only bad things to the people around her. However, her parents believe that it will be better for the twins not to grow up hearing such things, so they move their family out to the frontier where their father will work to be a professor of magic. Although things have gotten better, Eff can’t help but believe that there’s something wrong with her. She must learn to be herself and like who she is despite the fears that she keeps hidden in order to uncover a deadly adversary and save the people of the frontier.

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    The Tombs of Atuan – Reviewing Classics

    Overall Rating: ★ Rating:71 Fullstar:3 Star Piece:0.55 Fraction:3.55★ Rating:71 Fullstar:3 Star Piece:0.55 Fraction:3.55★ Rating:71 Fullstar:3 Star Piece:0.55 Fraction:3.55½ Rating:71 Star Piece:0.55 Fraction:3.55☆ Rating:71 Fraction:3.5571%
    The Tombs of Atuan (Book 2 – The Earthsea Cycle)
    Ursula LeGuin
    Atheneum Books, 1971
    Fantasy Fiction
    ISBN-10: 1416509623
    192 pages
    Newbery Honor Book

    Synopsis

    Tenar, the priestess to the ancient and long held worship of the Nameless Ones, is taken as a child and raised as the one who will guard the catacombs of the Tombs of Atuan for her entire life. Thought to be the reincarnation of the one priestess who lives and is reincarnated in every generation, Tenar is raised as someone who is both feared and revered by her peers and authority figures, even at a young age.

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    Brisingr

    Overall Rating: ★ Rating:41 Fullstar:2 Star Piece:0.05 Fraction:2.05★ Rating:41 Fullstar:2 Star Piece:0.05 Fraction:2.05☆ Rating:41 Fraction:2.05☆ Rating:41 Fraction:2.05☆ Rating:41 Fraction:2.0541%
    Brisingr (Book 3 – The Inheritance Cycle)
    Christopher Paolini
    Alfred A. Knopf, 2008 
    Fantasy Fiction
    ISBN:0375826726
    668 pages

    Synopsis

    Eragon and Roran slay the Ra’zac, rescuing Roran’s betrothed in the process. Afterward they split up and Eragon heads to the kingdom of the dwarves in order to assist in securing a new king that favors the Varden and will help in the war against the Empire.

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    Eragon – Film

    Overall Rating: ★ Rating:34 Fullstar:1 Star Piece:0.7 Fraction:1.7½ Rating:34 Star Piece:0.7 Fraction:1.7☆ Rating:34 Fraction:1.7☆ Rating:34 Fraction:1.7☆ Rating:34 Fraction:1.734%
    Eragon
    Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation, 2006
    Fantasy
    ASIN: B000NA28I4

    Synopsis

    The tales of the Dragon Riders is a story of myth long gone now that the Riders have been decimated for nearly a century, and Galbatorix has been ruling the Empire and oppressing the people. However, the most unexpected turn takes place when a mysterious glowing rock is discovered by Eragon, a fifteen-year-old teen who lives on a poor farm in the north of the Empire. Soon, the rock hatches into a dragon making him a Rider, and Eragon finds himself in a world of magic and evil, the only free Rider alive and the new hope for the oppressed peoples of the Empire.

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    Eldest

    Overall Rating: ★ Rating:40 Fullstar:2 Star Piece:0 Fraction:2★ Rating:40 Fullstar:2 Star Piece:0 Fraction:2☆ Rating:40 Fraction:2☆ Rating:40 Fraction:2☆ Rating:40 Fraction:240%
    Eldest (Book 2 – The Inheritance Cycle)
    Christopher Paolini
    Alfred A. Knopf, 2005
    Fantasy Fiction 
    ISBN: 037582670X
    668 pages

    Synopsis

    Eragon has defeated the Shade, and is now termed Shadeslayer, but he is still young and requires training. Journeying to the elven forest city of Ellesmera, he must be trained in body and mind as well as magic.

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