Everything by Sanderson is amazing! Plus, these books are illustrated.
Reader thoughts: Alcatraz is witty, slightly sacrastic (but not rude), and he pokes fun at readers and writers alike. He makes fun of things like: the fantasy genre, people who skip to the last page; literary techniques like cliffhangers. I can (and do) read these books over and over. I laugh so much, and the jokes are funny the second and third time through.
The technology and magic are well explained and fun. Glass is magical. Glasses are magical. Some people can use magical glasses, and some people can use magical talents (like arriving late or tripping spectacularly). Some people, like Alcatraz and his grandfather, can do both.
Much about this book is so clever, including the Smedry talents (who knew you could stop a drought by washing dishes? Or that speaking gibberish at an interrogation would be a good idea?). The talking dinosaurs, encyclopedia altar, and romance book monsters were just too fun.
The plot is just the right size and complexity, and the pacing was perfect. One horrible birthday, one assassin, one hideout, and one library to infiltrate. Oh, and the library has a dungeon, a torture room, and a one-eyed dark occulator.
I really liked how all the characters worked together, and that each was unique. Their voices are all different, but they're all somehow clever and funny. They each have their own pasts and motivations (like the Mokian, Sing, who is an antrhopologist, or Bastille, who gave up her dream of being an occulator in order to become a Knight of Crystallia).
Alcatraz is quite an annoying narrator, though, and he never misses an opportunity to interrupt with a nearly useless paragraph of information once or twice in each chapter (usually his interruptions have to do with trying to convince the reader he is not a very nice narrator). However, he is still funny to read, and fairly bright.
Writer thoughts: Sanderson has said these books were longer (I think 65k words), and his publisher made him cut them to 55k words. When an author is on a word budget, no sentences are wasted. Every piece of information in these books moves the plot forward. Every description is short and powerful. Every line of dialogue is necessary and funny.
Then we have Alcatraz's interruptions. They take up a page at the beginning of every chapter. Why weren't they cut?
It's because, despite initial assumptions, those interruptions are vital to the story.
They show the reader Alcatraz's character.
They make the reader laugh.
And they make the reader want to slap Alcatraz for being so annoying.
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Are you guys looking for a book with adventure, fantasy, humor and suspense? If you are, then the series books, called Evil Librarians is the book for you.This book includes danger but excitement. Yet emotional and sadness but humorous. This book has sudden movements, diary entries techniques. It has so many great ideas and is extremely fun to read.This book makes me imagine an image that seems so real and creates a line of extraordinary events that blow my mind away. Before I was not that fond of reading, until I met this interesting book. Right away when I started reading it, I felt intrigued, which made me want to desperately keep reading and never stop.The only idea I can think of that I could dislike about it is when I was not reading the books. So, I could just find out more of them more of what might happen next. If it is sad or scary, if it is happy or amazing. The description and humor, especially the adventure and fantasy of it makes love it even more. So many cool things are being discovered every page I turn, every chapter I pass and every exciting and important part that explodes deeply, brightly through my whole head and mind.Secretly if people were supposed to marry any book they choose from, Alcatraz vs Evil Librarians, even the entire series of Evil Librarians I would marry too.Don’t get me started about the most creative, exciting and awesome writer who is named, Brandon Sanderson.Brandon Sanderson is so good at what he does. Every book, well for my opinion, are the greatest readings I have ever knelt my eyes before. I feel so proud that I got the chance to lay my gazing eyes on top of the most glorious words I have ever seen.Now I would really like to talk about how good the detailed description and vocabulary is. I would say that the vocabulary is so good and it can teach you better words and better writing skills for when any of you guys ever are writing an essay or stories for fun or in school, for example, English class.There is a great flow of sentences mixed in with good, up high words. I never thought that the description would make me love the books more, but somehow it really caught my eye by surprise. His books are inspirational to me and a lot of the general population, I would like to point out have a great sense of books like, well, Evil Librarians.So, if this book is so you, I suggest that you come and pick it out. Then, I am sure your life will be much happier.This is all why I think this book is so great. Come on and check this book out.By: Brynlee Gray.
