"I love J.K. Rowling, and her once-in-a-generation success is a joy to behold, but Jonathan Stroud is more clever, and just as compulsively readable," says David Larsen in his review of The Amulet of Samarkand. Also in the New Zealand Herald: Diana Gabaldon's Lord John and the Private Matter, a somewhat more adult tome appraised by Margie Thomson.

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