So... Possibly quite a few of you have seen the trailer for this book circulating around. If you can't tell by that huge red circle saying "Now a Major Motion Picture", Seventh Son is now out in theaters as a movie. As someone who wholly believes in reading the book before watching the movie, I obviously had to pick up this book before I would allow myself to watch the movie-- which looks very enticing...
This book is 688 pages long. Yes. I get that it's long, but you have to keep in mind that it is Books 1 and 2 combined together, so it's not actually that long... Plus the font is like size 10000. ( Okay that's a lie. But you get my gist. ) Besides. You can always put it down any time you want to have a break. It's a good book, but not engrossing enough for you not to be able to put it down. Promise.
This book basically covers the life of 'the seventh of a seventh son', Tom Ward. He has been chosen to become the apprentice of the one man who holds all the powers of evil back by himself. Except not for long, now that he has a apprentice. If Tom makes it past his tests alive, he'll be the best apprentice. And the last.
Featuring 'mysterious mother that's actually nothing that she seems', 'naive boy who learns to harness evil' , 'malevolent witch' and 'shady character that is actually a good character', this book kind of covers all the cliches of the supernatural. This book ranges from "Oh my gods what happens next???" to "Can I just skip the next four chapters? Nothing's happening anyways..." If I had to pinpoint one thing I really disliked about this book was the erratic stops of the action. While it did have a lot of action in the two books overall, the action stopped completely for a few chapters, before rushing through a few chapters' worth of action in a chapter, and then slowing down to a trickle again. Very touch and go.
However, it was an interesting book to read, and while I was admittedly caught in "What the heck just happened..." moments sometimes, I think people who enjoy action or adventure stories will enjoy reading this book... I'm personally hoping the movie is somehow better than the book....
***I give this book a 7.4 out of 10 ***
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