The Egyptian Box

The notion of a magical servant is neat, though given that Charles stuck "something" into the spell a couple times it's weird that it worked. The consequences...I had a hard time with this book - Tee is so _dumb_. Or I suppose, more accurately, childish - she doesn't think things through. The fact

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that she's a lot like me at that age (book-mad, school and making-friends averse...) only made it worse. She's extremely lucky that she finally woke up and told the right person (who actually knew an answer, or at least where to find it) _just_ before it was too late. Good ending...though I wonder if Tee is going to be able to keep up the shabti's behavior (social and scholarly) in school. Adventure is something bad happening, to someone else, or long ago, or far away...maybe she'll be less interested in adventure books having had her own.

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