Children of the Lamp - P.B. Kerr
by Zia ~ August 15th, 2005. Filed under: Books.
Still on the hunt for great kiddie lit. This wasn’t it.
John and Philippa Gaunt discover they are djinn and are introduced to their crazy uncle. Then they go to Egypt to battle something or other. I didn’t get very far. The author states he wrote this book to encourage his son to read, but he could have done with a quick perusal of Fowler’s himself. Among other things, he was very fond of the phrase “like I said,” which is one of my admittedly many peeves, and seemed wholly unfamiliar with the rules governing the subjunctive. These bugged me even more than the poor plotting and the mediocre writing.
December 5th, 2006 at 5:36 am
I thought it was a great book - great plot and characters, an interesting subject, too. I loved it!!!!!!!!!!
December 5th, 2006 at 8:54 am
Personally, I found it hard to get past the bad writing, but it’s nice to know that the story itself was enjoyable!