Septimus Heap is the seventh son of a seventh son, but is stolen away by the midwife who calls him dead.
On the same night Septimus’s father finds a baby girl with violet eyes in the snow. He takes the baby with him, but when he gets inside the gate a fellow wizard (did I forget to say that?), Marcia, tells him to raise the child as his own and never tell anyone otherwise.
When he home, planning to tell his wife this odd warning he got, he finds his distraught wife trying to fallow the midwife as she takes baby Septimus away. Not knowing what else to do, they raise the girl-child they named Jenna telling her she is their daughter.
Then, a few months later, they find out their ruler, the Queen, has died. And it seemed she died months ago, on the very night she had her heir, a baby daughter. And the ExtraOrdinary Wizard is dead too, and Marcia is the ExtraOrdinary Wizard. And only her and nine Heaps know where the Queenling is.
They will find Jenna. And only one powerful Wizard, two not-so-powerful wizards pretending to be her parents and six wizard-to-be boys, are in the way.
This is a good book, not as good as Harry Potter (if there is anything better then Harry Potter) but better then some. All-in-all a good book, good enough that I will read the next one.
Posted under review
This post was written by John Gillette on August 26, 2008
