Title: Magyk (Septimus Heap #1)
Author: Angie Sage
Genre: Fantasy, fiction, children.
Date published: March 1st, 2005
Price: $7.99 at Barnes & Noble
Edition I read: Septimus (Spanish Edition)
Publisher: Montena
Translator: Teresa Campodrón
Year of publishing: 2006
Pages: 489
Rating:
★★★✩✩
Magyk is the first book in the Septimus Heap series written
by Angie Sage. This book’s genre is fantasy and children fiction, its more focused
toward children than young adults.
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Sarah and Silas Heap. |
The seventh son of a seventh son is a person with
extraordinary magical powers, in the Heap family a seventh son is born and is
named Septimus, but the baby dies and the midwife goes away with the body. After
that, Silas Heap finds a baby girl in the snow and he and his wife decide to
adopt her to compensate their loss. Nine years go by, and they live their
normal lives until the ExtraOrdinary Wizard, Marcia Overstrand, appears and
tells them their adoptive daughter is the princess and an assassin is trying to
find her to kill her…. that is where all the adventures begin.