Off to Be the Wizard

Off to Be the Wizard

2013 • 373 pages

Ratings158

Average rating3.9

15

One day, 23 year old Martin Banks finds a giant text file in which he's able to do things like change people's height, his current location and manipulate time. When he uses it a bit too much to increase the money in his bank account, the police are onto him and he sees no other way out than to escape to Medieval England where he pretends to be a wizard.

Everything about this book is relatively straightforward. The story isn't very complicated and the writing style is very simple and easy to get into. The narration by Luke Daniels elevated this book immensely. It was perfection. It brought some more humor that might not have been as good when reading on a page.

As a fun lighthearted read you don't require that much of, it's great. It is over 10 hours long when listening though, and that was just a little too long for me, because I think it could have been shortened down. There were a few times I started losing interest, and then other times in the book that I was super into it.
I'm not sure I'll be checking out the sequels, since I think this stands on its own and I have no dire need to get more out of these characters.

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