I got this book at a library sale with no clue about the author or the story. It turned out to be Number Four of a seven part series. Kudos to the author because I was able to get into the story without feeling I had missed something from an earlier story. This author has a wonderful imagination. He created a world and populated it with some of the most extraordinary characters. The basic plot is to stop an evil magician from controlling this world. That's where my four stars instead of five com...

Look, I don’t mind that ungulates are non-sapient in one book and intelligent in the next, or that the race of the police changes, or that the social standing of rodents changes --- but when most of the plot or dialogue serves only as comic effect, it makes the reality of the characters, their dialogue, disappointing. I’d like more of the starkness of the original book; this series is getting more and more cartoony. Still an intriguing main plotline, tho.

The series is beginning to drag4 February 2012 I guess the Spellsinger series are beginning to drag on by this time. As I mentioned previously, one of the main reasons that I continued reading them was because I wanted to see if Talea would return, but I guess by the time I reached this book it became clear that she wasn't. However, as also mentioned, the problem with Jon-Tom is that he is still trapped in this world with no way to return, though one would wonder why he would want to return sinc...

Seeing a lot of other reviews, for this 4th Spellsinger effort, that echo the mild disappointment I felt after reading. The series does seem to be dragging by this point, and I miss the characters from earlier books that are only mentions by now. But I will press on with the series-not as a masochist, I just feel like I wanna know how it all turns out for Jon-Tom.

You will only like these books if you already enjoy funny 80's fantasy books like Xanth or Myth.

The Spell Singer is not my favorite series by Alan Dean Foster but still the characters do sort of grow on you after a while. The feeling of the story is that it is like a long D&D Campaign, lots of good and fun parts but maybe starting to get to familiar? I will continue the series and see what happens next, It is however much better than the real world which could use a better Author right now. This was a Good Read.

Ok, but starting to get a little repetitive

8/5/2018 - 5/10With book 4, the series definitely seems to be going down in quality. The plot seemed like an excuse to have a bunch of short and unconnected encounters while traveling (each resolved in about a chapter). This all led to a short and not very satisfying conclusion. The characters seemed more one-dimensional than usual, and that's not saying much.

A book rating of just okay, fourth in a series which eventually expanded to eight, and not a lot of prospect for the future. While no sharks were jumped in this tale, I believe they may be revving up the motor.First off, the main plot was alright. I enjoyed the villain, even if his powers weren't well explained, and most aspects of the situation.On the other hand, the protagonist was unchanged from previous books, more caricature than character. Worse were his counterparts, barely one dimensiona...

Yes it's in many ways fantasy pulp fiction, but it's written by a skilled writer, and loads of fun. I haven't read this book for 20 years I reckon, and it's still fresh and fun.

A

The same-ness starts getting to you in binge reading.This is the fourth book of the spellsinger series. However, there ends up (other than the first) being a level of same-ness to the stories. A problem appears. Jon-Tom has to go take care of it. Mudge doesn't want to go. They take a long journey. Jon-Tom succeeds in getting them past the problem, except for one time when Mudge has to save them. They get to the problem, and things go badly, until Jon-Tom manages to defeat/solve the problem. Ther...

The vocabulary was impressive at times, and it's decently written. However, the premise was a bit cheesy for me and its execution was at times a little disappointing. It's very much a save the world adventure story, but the plot progression was easily distracted at times. It kept getting off track for me.

Before I begin this review, I would like to say a few words.A non-negligible number of authors write books that include music. These books usually feature flowery descriptions of a long list of their favorite songs. If you feel a pressing desire to join their ranks, PLEASE RESIST IT. I am familiar with most of the tracks mentioned in these works, and I like quite a few of them, but the resulting "literature" is unreadable crap that would get you a smack-down from your English professor. Piers An...

I picked this up on a whim and enjoyed it, but did not feel a need to hunt out more of the series. Based on reviews, it looks like people who had been going through the series found this book kind of a downgrade, but I had no expectations and thought it was fine. I appreciated that everything was easy to follow, even without having read any of the other installments.

This definitely scarred me as a child.

Liked it alot! It got away from the "quest across x to do y" formula used in book 3 and felt much more gripping. When JonTom is captured by the PlatedFolk I was on the edge of my seat.

This story did drag a bit for me. The travelling became the entire story - the actual plot was resolved within a couple of chapters at the end - and left all sorts of holes open.You know how in a good story there are loads of tangential bits that don't make sense on their own but then - boom - everything is revealed? Well The Moment of the Magician does the bits, but forgets the boom. None of the odd little side plots are resolved and it just becomes a walking story. Most of the Spellsinger book...

What if instead of being a good-natured, well-intentioned law student and struggling musician, Jon-Tom and instead been a middle-aged failure of a magician on Earth whose combination of circumstances and poor life decisions had made him bitter and stripped away all sense of ethics and morals?If you’d been wondering the same thing, fear not! Moment of the Magician answers that question. Fair warning, there are dangers along the way as well as more otters. The two aren’t mutually exclusive. We mig...

The fourth installment of author Alan Dean Foster’s Spellsinger series, which he dedicates to Tim Hildebrandt, opens with the Quorum of Quasequa debating the salamander magician Oplode the Sly, who is tasked with going to the Isle of Kuntaweh and fetching Pandro the raven. In the meanwhile, a human magician named Markus the Ineluctable is on the rise, gradually consolidating power, while protagonist Jon-Tom prattles with the turtle wizard Clothahump about his love for Talea. When Jon-Tom hears a...