4.27 avg rating — 37,143 ratings

"The entire series is a ripoff of Tolkien's work, or, as a cutting Amazon review put it, "Tolkien fanfiction.""

4.11 avg rating — 413,794 ratings

"Besides my dislike for the entire series as a Tolkien ripoff, there was some unnecessary sexual immorality in this book, which finally made me decide to stop reading the series altogether."

4.05 avg rating — 490,014 ratings

3.96 avg rating — 1,933,559 ratings

3.69 avg rating — 36,010 ratings

"I stuck this book out, even though I wasn't enjoying it, because I thought that there had to be a good resolution, that in the end she would find her faith again. Yet she did not. I was left disappointed and unsatisfied."

4.06 avg rating — 588,411 ratings

4.11 avg rating — 7,050 ratings

"A bitter disappointment. I'd been waiting for the book that would focus on Maybeck since the series began, and it came out looking like a poorly edited second draft. Either Ridley Pearson was rushing to get it through the publishing process, or he just doesn't know when to stop a series."

3.88 avg rating — 964 ratings

"An utter disappointment in light of the whimsical and clever first two books. This book has the whimsy, but all the cleverness has disappeared."

3.96 avg rating — 539 ratings

"Hands down the most predictable book I have ever read. I had called every plot point by around chapter 3."

4.03 avg rating — 16,352 ratings

"You know it's time to put the book down when you've encountered three overtly Tolkien-derivative elements by the end of the first chapter. No thanks."

3.95 avg rating — 50,138 ratings

"Ms. L'Engle took far too many liberties with the Bible story in this one, and also... talk about awkward."

3.47 avg rating — 7,062 ratings

4.30 avg rating — 4,800 ratings

"Ouch. I've never sat through so much bad comic book dialogue in a work that purported to be prose fiction."

3.87 avg rating — 5,433 ratings

"The writing in this book was juvenile; in my opinion, it was a waste of time."

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 32,094 ratings

"Among the rest of the books in the series, this one stands out as a disappointment, with lower quality writing and some severe difficulty limiting the magic to reasonable boundaries."

3.77 avg rating — 4,065 ratings

"As an individual book, I was indifferent to it. As a sequel to the beloved book by Robert C. O'Brien, it simply wasn't good enough to justify its existence."

3.88 avg rating — 2,751 ratings

"This book was not at all up to Ms. Oke's usual standards; it was uninteresting and a bit sloppy."

3.82 avg rating — 25,412 ratings

"The book wasn't bad, but it was simply too long. The storyline wasn't strong enough to hold my interest for so many pages."