I've finally figured out why I enjoy this whimsical, fantasy series so much---it's the focus the books have on seeing everything from the children's rather adult perspectives. I adore the detail and feel of the scenes which Sage writes as well as the connection she builds between the reader and the characters. Each is an individual and one bonds with them.In this third installment of the Septimus Heap series, Septimus is enthralled with the medical discoveries of a, he thinks, 500-year-dead wiza...

I tried persevere. I really did. I read the first two from beginning to end. I couldn't do it with this one. The tediousness and annoyingly long paragraphs explaining every thought and action became too much for me! The book could really have been done in 100 pages...if that. I ended up skimming quickly through it, after reading the first ten chapters, and then I read the bits at the end about what happened to characters. I got the gist of the book just by doing that and saved myself many more d...

It's kinda like Harry Potter mixed with the Lord of the Rings meets like the Time Warp Trio or something. I've really gotten into them, but they're long. The fourth one, Queste is almost 600 pages and the rest are like 500 some. They usually take me a month to read unless it's the weekend and I have nothing else to do, then it takes like three days. My mom, brother and I all are reading them right now.

I'm a big fan of this series! Ghosts, witches, dragons, spells, secret cupboards and tunnels, boggarts, sailing ships, queens, wizards, herbs and magic rings...everything you could possibly imagine in a magical castle realm. Mix that with Shakespearean-style mischief: comedy-of-errors (very human errors!) and mistaken identity. And, on top of all that, the characters are lovably ordinary; the children make friends in a natural, uncalculated way, and the adults are so...imperfect. Lots of fun!

The third installment in the series is still full of adventure and fast paced, but I found that I didn't quite enjoy it as much as the previous two books. I can't quite put my finger on why though. I'm thinking that since this is a 7 book series I'm going to read book 4 and then take a break before finishing.

The third entry in Angie Sage's seven-book Sepimus Heap series, Physik (2007), begins with Septimus' feckless father Silas the Ordinary Wizard and his coarse "friend" Gringe the North Gate Gatekeeper (two of the many fallible adults whose mistakes make life interesting for Sage's child heroes and readers) "UnSealing" a Sealed room in the palace attic so that Silas may keep safe there his prized colony of sentient board game counters. By opening the Sealed room, the clueless men release two malev...

Anyone who knows me well knows that I struggle with books involving time travel. I'm fully aware of these issues, and I know I should just get over it, so I tried not to think to hard about logistics, etc, when I stumbled upon time travel in this book. My tactics seemed to have worked, because it didn't bug me too much here, but in trying to not pay too close attention to the details, I find that I can't really make an intelligent statement about how time travel worked in this book, so... This b...

Entertaining, exciting, and a humdinger of a cliffhanger at the conclusion! "Are you okay? Have you looked in to the Glass yet?"Jenna's voice came from the cupboard. "Um…yes. I'm looking now.... ""What can you see? ""Nothing....nothing.... it's just dark.... oh, wait.... I can see something now... it—it's weird... an old man... staring at me. He looks kind of surprised.""An old man?" asked Jenna. "Oh, that's odd.... ""What?" Jenna could bear it no longer. She hurtled down the steps and arrived i...

The best thing about this third installment is that it features an entirely new and unique plot. After the first two books, I was worried that I would have to keep reading about how they defeat Domdaniel, but this book features a new villain who is unique, interesting, and helps with the worldbuilding as well. I daresay these books are getting better and better.

As Alice, you know the one from wonderland and through the looking glass, and Lucy, Edmund, Susan and Peter, you know the ones who enter Narnia via a wardrobe, could tell you: it is never a good idea to travel to strange places, or times for that matter, through a mirror or a closet, let alone through both...

I think this is the best of the series so far. It is very suspenseful and enjoyable to read. A new character, a trader girl enters the scene named Snorri. She is a nice addition to the growing list of protagonists, and Nicko takes a liking to her (possibly because of their mutual fascination with boats). Also, a new villian, Queen Etheldredda enters the scene. She drags Septimus and a few others that follow him 500 years into the past and traps them there. Now they need to get back to their time...

Three books in and im still loving the series. I found, magical and cozy middle grade that is still a pleasant reading experience for adults as well as kids. Kinda bummed that it took me so many years of starting reading the series. 15 years to be exact! But to my defense it's a book that hold a lot of significance due to who gave me it and that sadly passed a year after. But now I can cherish the memory of that person while reading the series

Not my favorite. Some of it was a bit confusing and unlike the other books where everything wrapped up. This did not. There was too much focus on new characters who didn't really fit with the story.

I am enjoying this series very much. I’ve waited and searched quite a while for a decent fantasy juvenile adult and series that is clean and well written. A hat tip to my oldest daughter for putting this my way.I have not yet written reviews as of this writing (4/8/21) for the first books but I do have some things to say about them. I will be writing soon.

This was not my favorite in the series so far. It seemed like it took too long to get to the actual plot, and became tedious with far too many new, inconsequential characters added too quickly. I think that a quarter of the story and several characters could have been left out. The last few chapters were full of updates and information about the characters that could have been avoided if the story had flowed correctly. I hope the wonderful pacing that made the first two books so good is reestabl...

Reviewed by Me for TeensReadToo.comI have to state that it's taken me a very long time to write my review of PHYSIK, mostly because it took me such a very long time to finish the book. Although I absolutely loved MAGYK, and was nearly as impressed with FLYTE, it was much harder for me to get into the story of PHYSIK. I wasn't immediately struck by the newly introduced characters, and even some of my old favorites were, at first, acting quite different than they had originally. That being said, t...

This is another very enjoyable book suitable for reading aloud to children. The daughter of a wizard has more adventures with some of her brothers and a dragon.

3 1/2 starsAnother enjoyable installment in the Septimus Heap series.In this tale, we find ourselves wrapped up in plots involving time travel, magical mirrors, a young dragon, a Sickness (which the Rats get unjustly blamed for and hunted... :-/ not sure how I really felt about that) and a Ghost who appears to be more "solid" than she should.I do like the characters in these books, and I like the ideas Sage has. I'm not sure how I feel about the increasingly multi-person perspectives, but if you...

Another fun adventure.

its a good book about many different queens and kings throughout generations, and how some try to take over and some try to stop the others from taking over