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the complex and convoluted castle history was worked out in the last book, Celie and her friends are back in the castle safe and sound, Its not happily ever after quite

yet, though not when the Arkower wizard breaks out and is running around on the loose! Celie needs to stop him, save her friends, and prove to her parents that shes levelheaded and mature, all while dealing with the blow of her sisters impending marriage.


This is clearly an effort to combine a magical adventure with a more mundane struggle of growing up, It might work better for children in the age range intended, as they may sympathize with the character more, For myself, I found Celie grating on my nerves through the book, as she complains about not getting enough credit, shouts at her sister over her wedding, and demands to be more involved with things.
In other words, she lost the pleasing maturity she showed over the last few books, On the good side, it was fun to see more griffins,
Stars!
I am really sad that this is the last book in this series, I really liked this series, It was really the cutest series I have ever read before, This is my first time reading Jessica Day George books, I did not know what to except but after reading this series I really fell in love with it, I would love to read any of her other books she has, I would recommend this series to anyone, بیشک میتوانستم به این کتاب سه ستاره بدهم اگر سه جلد قبلیاش را خوانده بودم. بدون اغراق هفتاد درصد داستان ارجاع به ماجراهای گذشته و بازتعریف شخصیتهای نهچندان کمش بود. داستان شیرین بود و اسطورهای و آنچه فانتزی خوانده میشود! با این حال بسیار کلیشهای بود و نقص کم نداشت. احتمالا برای نوجوانان بهخصوص دختران جذاب بنماید و برای بزرگسالان ملالآور

دقم دادند سر این کتاب و پشتش داستان بسیار داشت. نپرسید که نمیگویم.maybe, but I'm going to round up because of the series as a whole, Lots of fun twists and turns in this book which I mean quite literally since much of the book takes place in secret passageways and tunnels deep in the castle.
An engaging plot, good characters especially the less traditional ones like griffins and the castle, and decent writing, I didn't find myself super engaged and gripped like I am with some books, thus the lower, but there is nothing "wrong" with the book, as far as I'm concerned.
A wonderful series for young readers!! Fridays with the Wizards has a potential to be so much more, However, it seems like the author had no ideas and just went with this, It was far below my expectations, with such a simple plot in such an exciting series, It was okay, but not enough for me, Hopefully things in the series will get better, but so far they've only gotten worse, I just finished reading the copyedits for this one Februaryand trust me, you'll love it, This is good stuff, if I do say so myself!

July: Final proofread! YAY THEY'RE CHASING ARKIDIOT YAY THEY'RE CHASING THE ARKIDIOT

so I only like heard the last chapters where stuff gets resolved but it was great!! great series in general!! and my super picky sis loves it so there's that.

Read this one aloud with my daughter, This series has suffered from ups and downs, and for me, this one was more of a down, With the events of the previous book, the castle has effectively settled and no longer shifts about as much, so the whole charming premise there has been scaled back, Instead the focus is now more on the griffins, which is fine, but to a degree repetitive, Speaking of repetitive, the bulk of the novel's plot is concerned with a hunt that basically rehashes the same search over and over again with small variations, and which got a tad boring after a while, but it wasn't a disaster.
It looks like the next book will have the characters out on adventures again, which should be more interesting,

Me:stars
Daughter:stars
Rating:,, rounded up. Im so sad Im nearing the end of this series! Eek! Such a fun fabulous read,

Id love to see this middlegrade Fantasy series made into movies,
Can you imagine seeing the Griffins!
Mackenzie Foy would make a fabulous Princess Celie,
And perhaps Uriah Shelton as Pogue, Princess Celie and her companions have made it safely home from the Glorious Arkower, and now that the Eye of the Castle is where it belongs, everything is back to normal.
With more magical griffins to care for, Celie, Lilah and Rolf have their hands full, But when the dangerous ancient wizard Arkwright escapes the dungeon and goes missing within the Castle, no one can rest until he is found, Only Celie knows where he is most likely to be hiding, . . With danger lurking behind every tapestry and under every trapdoor, Celie must find the wizard and save her family, Readers will be swept away by another charming magical adventure featuring Princess Celie and her very special Castle, This was a glorious story, The Castle is back in Sleyne, Lulath and Lilah are engaged and everyone is thrilled with the upcoming trip to Grath, Everyone but Celie. She feels as though all of her discoveries are taken out of her hands, she's never allowed to participate in the exciting things and why does she need new gowns anyway, she doesn't want to go to Grath.
Once again it is Celie who makes the most important discoveries and when Arkwright the evil wizard escapes it is ultimately Celie and the Castle who take him down permanently.
The story was fun but had a lot of character growth for everyone, Can't wait for Saturday!.stars

This series has been one of my favorites, but this volume fell flat for me, That could be because I expected it to be about something entirely different than from the set up at the beginning than it ended up being about, I thought the last/s of the book would be away from the castle as the family began their journey to Luth's country, But it isn't. Arkwright needs to be captured, Again. The castle may be in trouble, Again. Celie feels like no one listens to or appreciates her, Again. This book rehashed a lot the elements of the first three books while not adding anything to the series, I will still read a fifth book if there is one, but it won't be as much of a priority,
Final review, first posted on sitelinkwww, FantasyLiterature. com:

Fridays with the Wizards is the fourth and most recent book in Jessica Day Georges CASTLE GLOWER series about twelve year old Princess Celie and the magical, semisentient castle where she lives.
Celie and her brother and sister and friends have just returned from an unexpected adventure in another land, as related in the previous two books in the series, sitelinkWednesdays in the Tower and sitelinkThursdays with the Crown, where they tangled with the local wizards, befriended the king and queen of the griffins, and searched for the missing piece of a magical device called the Eye of the Castle.
As they finally relax in Celies beloved castle, along with the couple of dozen griffins they brought back with them, the only thing disturbing Celies peace is her seventeenyearold sister Lilahs growing romance with their guest Prince Lulath of Grath, which prompts Lilah to pressure the reluctant Celie to come visit the country of Grath with Lilah and Lulath.


But more trouble soon raises its head: the ancient and powerful wizard Arkwright, who caused so much trouble during their prior adventures, has escaped from the dungeon and is lurking somewhere on the grounds of the castle, but in hidden passageways where the castle cant alert King Glower to the wizards location.
As the royal family realizes that Arkwrights plans may prove dangerous to their country and deadly to them, it becomes a race to find Arkower before he finds them, Much of Fridays with the Wizards is spent with the characters rather ineffectively chasing around in dark passageways of the castle trying to find the missing wizard, with some of the searchers disappearing and others using magic to try to trap the wizard.


The main plot is interspersed with Celie experiencing some of the difficulties of growing up, Unfortunately she is rather pouty and selfabsorbed in this book, constantly feeling like no one cares about her feelings or is giving her enough credit for her accomplishments, Admittedly, tweens do tend to have these types of feelings, and Celies personal struggles may strike a chord with younger readers, . . but I don't necessarily want to read about it, Celie does, thankfully, have a loving family and wise parents who are able to help her deal with her personal growth pangs,

Fridays with the Wizards is a mildly enjoyable story thats worth reading for fans of this childrens series, but it was a bit of a letdown for me.
Too much of the plot felt like a retread, There are a few unexpected developments, but mostly this book is mopping up issues related to the events of the prior two volumes, Even the theme of Celies personal issues is one thats been raised before,

The story contains some intriguing teasers about a strange village in Grath that has its own language and separate government, and the characters speculate that these villagers might be the descendants of the original griffin riders from Arkower, but that plotline is dropped without being further explored.
Although I realize it would mean leaving Castle Glower behind for a while, sending Celie off to visit Lulath's country to check out this village or to search for unicorns, as was hinted at in the early pages, would have been a nice fresh plot direction.
Perhaps in the next sequel!,