OUTCAST by Christopher Golden

OUTCAST

Age Range: 10 - 12

KIRKUS REVIEW

Proof positive that a well-imagined setting and a promising premise can’t survive amateurish writing. Being the only human in his entire world who cannot work magic, young Timothy Cade might seem to have a devastating handicap—except that he’s not only a combination of Leonardo, Thomas Edison, and Bruce Lee, but also utterly immune to any magic attack or spell. He is, therefore, well equipped to take on evil archmage Nicodemus, who’s out to take over the Parliament of Mages for his supposedly dead master. To follow Timothy’s adventures, however, readers will have to plow through ten pages of prefatory non-action before even meeting him, and thereafter be continually assaulted by awkward language (“A ripple of mutterings went around the room”), wooden dialogue (“It would not at all surprise me to see the youth used for ill gain”), and slo-mo battles in which participants find time to deliver threats or instructions. Wordy, contrived, amateurish work—and, naturally, first in a projected series. Skip it. (Fiction. 10-12)

Pub Date: Aug. 1st, 2004
ISBN: 0-689-86661-5
Page count: 240pp
Publisher: Aladdin
Review Posted Online:
Kirkus Reviews Issue: July 15th, 2004




MORE BY CHRISTOPHER GOLDEN

ChildrenSOULLESS by Christopher Golden
by Christopher Golden

MORE BY THOMAS E. SNIEGOSKI

ChildrenTALL TALES by Jeff Smith
by Jeff Smith
ChildrenLEGACY by Thomas E. Sniegoski
by Thomas E. Sniegoski
ChildrenBILLY HOOTEN by Thomas E. Sniegoski
by Thomas E. Sniegoski
https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/christopher-golden/outcast/
www.kirkusreviews.com
crawl=CC-MAIN-2015-32
98483
application/http; msgtype=response
sha1:6ZDQPD2EA5XE6T6CWNJ4DX5GZ3PUQL3X
<urn:uuid:6ade37f5-d812-453e-a9d1-23fb4a8ff337>
2015-08-01T11:55:02Z
54.243.47.224
sha1:BRSCXHODR32UVL2WZJTGDR7RYXSC6AQ7
<urn:uuid:deda0e60-f975-4538-8e80-d467b193ef28>
https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/christopher-golden/outcast/
response
<urn:uuid:9f32389a-14fe-41c5-aea1-8b2287c72951>
robots: classic
hostname: ip-10-236-191-2.ec2.internal
software: Nutch 1.6 (CC)/CC WarcExport 1.0
isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2015-32
operator: CommonCrawl Admin
description: Wide crawl of the web for August 2015
publisher: CommonCrawl
format: WARC File Format 1.0
conformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf