So you want to be a wizard

by Diane Duane

Paperback, 385 pages

English language

Published Nov. 11, 2001 by Harcourt.

ISBN:: 978-0-15-216250-4
OCLC Number:: 47890334

Thirteen-year-old Nita, tormented by a gang of bullies because she won't fight back, finds the help she needs in a library book on wizardry which guides her into another dimension.

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Review of 'So you want to be a wizard' on 'Storygraph'

3 stars

I avoided this book for a long time because for some reason I thought it would be too "dark", then I decided to look up the author again. I found my way to her online journal and I saw a post containing C.S. Lewis quotes. Not just any C.S. Lewis quotes, but quotes from The Screwtape Letters. So I decided to give it a try.

I didn't love the characters, but the writing and story were beautiful and that's what really grabbed me. It reminded me somewhat of C.S. Lewis' Space Trilogy and also a bit of A Wrinkle In Time.