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Title: Amari and the Despicable Wonders
Author: B. B. Alston
Narrator: Imani Parks
Series: Supernatural Investigations
Series Number: 3
Genre: Fantasy, Adventure
Audience: Middle Grade
Format: Audiobook
My Review:
I dinged book two of this series for being a little too reminiscent of Harry Potter. I still see direct parallels between a lot of the plot points in this book and The Wizarding World but I must not have cared as much this time around.
It’s been two years since I listened to Amari and the Great Game and I’ve forgotten a lot of what happened. There weren’t a lot of clues to remind me. That can be both good and bad. Too much synopsis in a series book feels like a book report but not enough leaves readers who don’t want to re-read the previous books a little lost. That’s kind of where I was but I just rolled with it.
Amari and her friends are a great group to spend time with. They have enough disagreements to feel real but you can also tell that they genuinely care about each other.
The ending wrapped up so neatly that I wasn’t sure if it was the end of the series. It looks like at least two more books are in the works though.
Imani Parks does a good job with the narration in this series but she reads too slow even for me, and I say that I speak slow and hear even slower with my Southern accent. I sped up the playback a bit, which I almost never do.
I highly recommend this fun, diverse series.
Synopsis from GoodReads:
War has come to the supernatural world, and Amari’s two worst enemies are leading the charge.
Elaine Harlowe has manipulated her way into becoming prime minister, using her mind control ability to force the Bureau to take up her vicious grudge against magiciankind. Meanwhile, Dylan Van Helsing, the newly crowned leader of the League of Magicians—and Amari’s former partner—is after a destructive new power that would not only ensure the magicians’ victory . . . it would make him invincible.
With neither the Bureau nor the League safe for Amari, and her newly returned brother, Quinton, determined to keep her out of the fray, she and her friends decide to find a way to end the war on their own.
So when they learn that the only way to stop Dylan is to find powerful magical inventions known as Wonders, they go after them. But wielding these items comes at a terrible cost, and Amari will have to decide just how much she’s willing to sacrifice . . . because the Despicable Wonders will demand everything.
Similar Books:
If you liked Amari and the Despicable Wonders, you might also like my reviews of
- Amari and the Night Brothers (Supernatural Investigations #1) by B. B. Alston, read by Imani Parks
- Amari and the Great Game (Supernatural Investigations #2) by B. B. Alston, read by Imani Parks
- Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky (Tristan Strong #1) by Kwame Mbalia, read by Amir Abdullah
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