The Witch Doctor
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Publisher Description
AN ATHEIST IN A WORLD OF ANGELS AND DEMONS
Saul didn’t have so many friends that he would give one up without a fight. So when Matt disappeared, Saul started a search that led through Matt’s kitchen window—straight into a world of magic and desperate danger!
Saul discovered that in this world, his love of verse made him a wizard. But his newfound magic earned him a dreadful foe: Queen Suettay, a false monarch without peer for wickedness and corruption. A fearsome sorceress herself, with armies steeped in evil ready to obey her every sinful command, she determined to break Saul’s growing power—or win his soul for Satan.
Fortunately, Saul earned some stalwart friends, as well: Gruesome the troll and young Squire Gilbert; Saul’s own guardian angel, and the beautiful—if unsubstantial—Angelique. But he’d need the help of the mysterious Spider King to spin a web strong enough to trap this tyrant!
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The third book in the Wizard of Rhyme series (after The Oathbound Wizard ) again features protagonist Saul Bremener, a hero so selectively thickheaded that there are several places where this often pleasant narrative seems more an excerpt from Kant's Critique of Pure Reason than a novel. Stasheff has a clever concept here: that Saul is neither good nor evil, while others in his fantasy world must be either one or the other. But he fails to make him a credible character; only a severe Calvinist could describe Saul as amoral. Saul is uncommonly dense when the author desires him to be, a trait he's not likely to share with most readers, who will find themselves way ahead of Saul in figuring out what's going on. Although he is surrounded by a crowd of well-wrought supporters--a knight, a bard, a ghost, a fairy and a delightful troll named Gruesome--Saul experiences a series of adventures that are more repetitive than suspenseful. Moreover, Stasheff's pedantry and philosophical hair-splitting rapidly become tedious.
