Wishing Season: Wishing Season

My daughter, who is 14 really liked this book, but I found it first ! (I reccomended it to her !) There is a little bit of a love story in it and alot of wise-cracking. The mishaps that the genies and humans go through are hilarious. As a parent I was happy that the language was clean and yet still funny. It was a real light-hearted read, and after reading it, we immediately bought a copy.

This is the best book I have ever read. I think the very beginning of the book was a little boring though.

This hilarious book has the same great kind of humor that peppers Patricia C Wrede's "Dealing with Dragons" series.

This book is about Khalid, a genie student that was sent out into the world to study mortals...and how to be a successful genie. Being very intelligent, but not too much aware of the human world, he mistakes his first master, (a cat) for a mortal. Being a very proud genie, when he was sent out into the world to try again his luck, he becomes impatient, so when he meets his second master(a true mortal this time,) he becomes impatient and arrogant and, in uttering the important imformation that genies have to inform their masters before they can make their official wishes, he forgets to say a very important line which stated that masters can make 3 wishes and 3 wishes only, which made him bound to his master forever, until his master wishes him free. Khalid learns important lessons about himself, humans, and love. I gave this book a 10 because it is very amusing and is really an ingenious story because it was written very clearly that gave you a superb picture of how everything is, from the description of Khalid to turban, and the message of this story is very clear. The characters were true to life despites its fantasy-ie setting and characters

Although genies, sultans, and wish-makers abound in this book, the cat, Boabdil is the omniscient hero. The foibles of humans are evident as feline intelligence guides Hassam in his adventures with a rookie genie who knows the rules of magic but sometimes forgets his scenario. The story is a two-parter and some of the characters in the concluding episode are too predictable, but the humor and clever dialog compensate for this minor flaw in a thoroughly entertaining read.