The Wishing Spell discussion

i love this book, buuuttttttt they do get worst :[

I agree with you. IMO this book is incredibly overrated. Colfer is not a skilled writer. I'm all for anything that gets kids reading, but having said that, this book is not quality writing. I've read several of his books, and I'm shocked that his editors have not tried to break him of some basic bad habits (overuse of italics and exclamation points, awkward phrasing, horrible and overabundant similes/metaphors, etc.). He also tends to write unlikeable protagonists, which I think is odd (but this is a much bigger issue in his YA books). For me, much of his writing just feels like a set up for a joke; that seems to be Connor's entire characterization--a vehicle for all the author's jokes. I think Colfer would be better at writing stand-up comedy than novels. Also, to me the story structure feels stolen from the Magic Treehouse series: a young boy and girl team get access to a magical book that transports them to another place. The Wishing Spell also has the added element of the kids having to achieve certain goals in order to get back home. That's the entire basic structure of the MTH series. If this book wasn't continually made available to a captive U.S. audience through the monthly Scholastic book club fliers, I doubt many kids would have read this book after 2013.

I strongly disliked this book which is quite a shame since I bought the first four books I was able to get through the first one trying to convince myself that I loved it - but I didn't. I didn't get past forty pages in the second though unfortunately. Maybe the movie will be good though...
Don't kill me though I just thought the writing was nothing special and they added unneeded romance and the goldilocks and jack romance killed me! Its MG dude get it in ur head!

Lol I stopped reading it after little red riding hood fought off wolves with a sword.

I loved it it was my favorite out of the entire series

Ashlyn⚡☍ wrote: "Hanan wrote: "I strongly disliked this book which is quite a shame since I bought the first four books I was able to get through the first one trying to convince myself that I loved it - but I didn't..."

Thank you! I'm really glad I'm not the only one!

Keran wrote: "Lol I stopped reading it after little red riding hood fought off wolves with a sword."

Yeah just stop Colfer! Oh boy, I was so done when it finished!

[MKD] i now right so totaly bad

so good bot so bad :[

yeah... they're ok, but not great.

And Colfer reads his own books for the audio versions. Something that the editors should have said "No" to right from the start. I was really irritated that Red Riding Hood and Sleeping Beauty didn't have real names.

i realy dont want a movie of it. Anyone els?

I did not hate the book, I really enjoyed it.
I'm not a critic when it comes the way the book was written. Sure, it was far from a literary masterpiece, but I do have to give him props for a great idea. Also, he's only 28, and he's been acting for most of his career. You have to cut him some slack.

I agree!

Me toooo!

I didn’t love or hate it, really. I thought it was ok. The second book was much better but the third and fourth were awful. I stopped reading the series after that. All in all, there are way better Fairytale books out there, just waiting to be read.

I don’t know ‘bout that but, I’m almost done with the series! I have one book left to read!!!!!