I am a big science fiction fan but I also had a problem with the very stiff language of Book 2 (The Dark Forest) - which had a different translator than Book 1. I also made it about halfway through and was fed up with it. For Book 3 they went back to the translator from the first book, so I really wanted to make it through, but just couldn’t do it.

It’s why I have mixed feelings about my 9 year old kids devouring the entire series within the space of a few months. It does get more and more serious. I love that it makes them love reading so much, but it is pretty heavy duty by the end. One of my 9 year olds is on book 6, the other on book 5. Another aspect for them is that they don’t have to wait for any book releases, just finish one book in the series and pick up the next.

Your father left you this Croak of Invisibility