Reviews for The Day of the Djinn Warriors (Children of the Lamp Series #4)

The average rating for The Day of the Djinn Warriors (Children of the Lamp Series #4) based on 2 reviews is 1.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2013-11-13 00:00:00 Thomas Brooks Blah blah blah. Another mildly interesting installment in this once promising series. Other than the convenient deus ex machina devices and back stories, the only thing that seems to connect these books is the sheer amount of really thoughtless comments made by Groanin about other cultures. I get that he's made to sound ignorant so that the children (and by extension, the audience) can learn and become cultured, but it often makes me cringe with the kind of generalizations that are made by this character. The names of most of the side characters suffer from either being terrible puns or are completely unpronounceable. There are also about 50 of these characters throughout the series and the audience has to remember who is who and why they might need to remember them. I also have to say that throwing the word "djinn" in front of nearly everything djinn-related is just annoying at this point. "Djinnternational mail". "Djinnversonnacular tournament". "Djinn-soaked" would be a good way to describe the argot at times in this series. And yet, I continue to read these books. Why? Because I have a habit of reading the first book in a series then just ordering the rest to have so I can kinda binge read them. I probably shouldn't have with these because the character arcs are stretched and you can tell the author is running out of material. At this point, I have no clue why this needs to be a 7 book series other than to compete with the far more entertaining Harry Potter books.

Review # 2 was written on 2020-05-15 00:00:00 Ricardo Chiriboga I remember this series being one of my childhood favourites, but coming back to it now... it's an entirely different story. This was incredibly frustrating to read. I hated almost every character and every plot development felt like it was being forced down my throat. I really tried to finish it! But at some point, I just had to give up. Turns out that point was page 43… I. just. couldn't. do. it. anymore. This left a bitter taste in my mouth. I had really high hopes for this series, sadly I was majorly let down. ☹