Para empezar, la escuela parece el castillo de Frankenstein y se encuentra en una isla llamada "Isla Cadavera", todos los alumnos son taciturnos y extraños, y además todos usan un raro anillo negro. I never bonded with the main character, and felt like he was just a puppet of the author, not a real person. It is story about a boy David Eliot who is seventh son of seventh of seventh son and thus born with magical abilities of which he is completely unaware of.

It would be a very appropriate book to aid in creative writing as the story is very imaginative through unusual events and unique characters.Una de las cosas que más disfruto de este libro es que el autor -a pesar de ser un libro para niños- no escatimó en incluir y describir temas bastantes oscuros.

tengo demasiados problemas con el Middle Grade, no logro conectar con los personajes y todo lo que quiero es regañar a los protagonistas por todas las imprudencias que comenten me convertí en señora tan paulatinamente que no me di cuenta; y aunque no conecté del todo con David no sentí la necesidad de regañarlo porque considero que todas sus reacciones fueron bastante normales. I hope, if you read it, you'll enjoy all the clues, the red herrings, the bizarre range of suspects and the occasionally violent twists. David Eliot is 10 year old boy who does not know he is a sorcerer until his father recieves a strange letter in the mail inviting David to a special school.We’ve never polluted the environment or experimented on animals or cut back on National Health spending. So here’s that mealtime torture taken one step further), but I still love the mischievous dark humour that lampoons ‘normal’ family life and (in what now seems like prescience) bankers.