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Wednesday 24 October 2018

Books of Magic Tells a Compelling but Familiar Story

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No doubt some readers unfamiliar with the source material will dismiss Books of Magic as a blatant Harry Potter ripoff. That's unfair, since the original comics predate Harry Potter by a number of years, but the simple fact is that the popularity of this franchise was long ago dwarfed by that of the Potterverse. Heck, spend much time on Twitter these days and it becomes painfully apparent that some people have never read a book not penned by J.K. Rowling. This new series needs to do all it can to distinguish itself and find a unique spin on the "magical boarding school" archetype. It doesn't. The basic formula remains as appealing as ever, but this series seems content to retell a story we've read before.

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