Someone sent me a note saying that if I liked Rosling's Harry Potter books, I simply had to try Diane Duane's Wizardry books, which are really much better. Well, I tried, and tried some more, and this book just doesn't do it for me. Comparisons to the Potter books are really misleading; those are English school stories, and these are adventure stories. More things are different than similar; the common threads (age group, wizardry in general) don't make these series very alike.

It's probably worth noting that I didn't like the Duane material even though I was not doing a comparative read.