Book #64 of 2024: Book of Doom by John Peel (Diadem: Worlds of Magic #10) This is the last of the second wave of author John Peel’s Diadem novels, the four published from 2005 to 2006 under Llewellyn (following the original six volumes put out by Scholastic from 1997 to 1998). It also functions as …
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Book Review: Book of Reality by John Peel
Book #57 of 2024: Book of Reality by John Peel (Diadem: Worlds of Magic #9) It’s finally Pixel’s turn to revisit his original homeworld, and just like Score in Book #5 and Helaine in Book #7, the protagonist’s reentry into the wreckage of his previous life offers certain immediate stakes and pre-existing relationships to help …
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Book Review: Book of Oceans by John Peel
Book #51 of 2024: Book of Oceans by John Peel (Diadem: Worlds of Magic #8) Unfortunately the weakest Diadem title yet. This next sequel finds Pixel’s new girlfriend Jenna still squabbling with Helaine, despite six months having passed since they left their homeworld’s rigid class system behind them at the end of the previous volume. …
Book Review: Book of War by John Peel
Book #45 of 2024: Book of War by John Peel (Diadem: Worlds of Magic #7) The Diadem series had its ups and downs, but when it ended its initial six-book run with Scholastic in 1998, there weren’t really any major lingering plot threads that made its continuation seem likely or at all necessary from a …
Book Review: Book of Signs by John Peel
Book #15 of 2024: Book of Signs by John Peel (Diadem #2) This sequel retains the juvenile feel befitting its middle-grade audience, but it’s enough of an improvement over the previous volume that I’ll bump my rating up from three stars to four. The story is more straightforward, with a minimum degree of recap for …
Book Review: Book of Names by John Peel
Book #9 of 2024: Book of Names by John Peel (Diadem #1) A solid launch to a fun middle-grade fantasy series about a trio of kids drawn from separate worlds into a magical mystery linking them together. The worst thing about this first title is that it burns through so many of its ideas so …
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