I got this book for Christmas, but it’s taken me a while to getting around to reading it. I’ve read the other books in the Septimus Heap series, and I think I like this one the best. Some of the characters are purely good, and some are purely evil, but the characters that are gray areas, like Marcellus Pye, are the most interesting. (I hope I haven’t given too much away here.)

Life has been pretty unsettled on this end for the last month, and this book was the perfect escape. I didn’t read it in one sitting, but read some each evening. I caught myself thinking about it at work a lot- I couldn’t wait to get home and read the next section! I’m still trying to decide how this series compares with Harry Potter. Right now I’d say it was not as good, but Physik is up there with the HP books’ quality. I highly recommend this book, but read the first two books in the series first, or else a lot of it won’t make sense.

Sage, Angie. 2007. Septimus Heap Book Three: Physik. Harper Trophy Books, New York.