Well,what do I say,I started reading it expecting to read a few chapters,and deleting it,but I just could not put it down,ancient times,interspersed with modern times,harrowing failures,and at times details of them to,but what a thrilling story,one most people know,and yet don't......beautifully portraid characters,good twists and turns,F.B.I,and magic to all in all a cracking book to read,so there you go,not disappointed nicely surprised.

Entertaining and fast-paced read, but the writing is just okay. I can't read a badly written book, and this isn't badly written, but it's not great writing either. This is reinforced by the authors' amusingly inaccurate depiction of an England in which people smoke on buses, talk to the village's resident tax collector and carry wads of hundred pound notes.

I finished the book and mildly enjoyed it in parts, but I'm not tempted to read the sequel.