The reader gets fascinating glimpses of Bartimaeus's past and somewhat troubling hints about Nathaniel's future. Normally I don't go in for pseudo sci-fi or fantasy that includes that 4th wall breaker: the sarcastic narrator with a modern sensibility and a "sassy" tongue, but this one works. a)The djinn Bartimaeus always addresses the reader in 1st person, whereas his 'master' Nathaniel is dealt with in the 3rd person; and b)Bartimaeus is deeply cynical and intelligent in a way that challenges the typical fantasy pretension. Far superior in ability to his mediocre master, he studies advanced magic in solitude and secrecy, for motives that are not pretty, however understandable. In general, the book is a nice page-turner with an original world-building and entertaining plot not matter readers age.

The novel was about a bunch of adults, doing adult stuff and a kid wanting to have his revenge on them. With HP i loved every single chapter, all were interesting and fast moving but with this book i found i was speed reading some chapters because they were so uneventful and slow all the while thinking to myself "oh hurry up and end so i can read something else!Nathaniel, the boy is too young to give us real insight into the history of this world (or to understand it for that matter). Stroud is an amazing mixture of talent and epigenetics, writing and reading from a very young age on, then working as an editor for children's books, having built expertise with much reading and competence by writing many authors won´t achieve in their whole life. Not to compare this too much to Harry Potter, but it is one of the first series to ride the initial wave of Pottermania to greater notoriety. Short-listed for the British Book Awards, 2004; the WH Smith Teen Choice Award (UK) 2004; Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis (German Youth Literature Award) 2005.

The plot is great, moving through different places effortlessly and seamlessly joining different threads of the story together.Jonathan Stroud is the author of the best-selling Bartimaeus sequence, which is published in 35 languages and has sold six million copies worldwide. It cannot replace the novel “The amulet of Samarkand” but it certainly enriches it and completes it; I loved reviewing drawn everything I had imagined while reading.

The book is duel-narrated by a first person POV from Bartimaeus, and a third person POV from Nathaniel. I think I need to read the actual book because if I like this much the graphic novel version, I will probably love the book.I really like the Bartimeus character but i found the others to be very stereotypical and had no depth whatsoever - the mother character was laughable. not my faveourite art style, the footnotes were just too much info which was most of the times already obvious from the pictures . He likes the fact that it is narrated by the demon and finds that interesting, plus it's funny and different from many of the other fantasy books he reads. The Amulet is only mentioned during the events of The Golem's Eye once when John Mandrake (Nathaniel) attempts to use the fact that he saved the Prime Minister and gave him the amulet to evade being imprisoned in the Tower of London. and what should I say, many of these works are much better than average, not bad, novels just for adults.