Sage is a fantastic magic book for a starting our bookworm. With the adventure, friendship building and easy to read chapters will have young readers turning the pages until the very end. The characters were likeable and the story was easy to follow. As an adult I wished for more description at times. This is a great story and start to a series.

I think Sage is lovely book for young teenagers and children. This book is filled with magic, the joy of discovering your own magical abilities and connecting with other magical people. Sage and her friend Sophie certainly makes it look wondrous.
I feel this is a great book to get young persons interested in fantasy and magical novels. I do not think adults will enjoy this book as much as the writing is more suited to a younger audience.

Firstly, the cover is quite awful. The light green text on a predominately green background is difficult to read, and the photoshopped publisher logo which has been slapped in the middle gives a very amateurish appearance.

The plot in summary: Sage is a teenage girl who discovers she has magical powers after a head injury. She goes to a school for magic and then has to fight a bad guy who wants to rule Earth.

The book itself could do with some heavy editing. It's extremely dialogue heavy, dropping a metric ton of exposition through awkward conversations as characters tell each other things they already know for the benefit of the reader, much of which is quite unnecessary. For instance, the first chapter could have been cut entirely without the story losing much.

By contrast, chapters where more important and relevant events take place move too quickly, are described confusingly, and are told through a combination of dialogue and a descriptions of actions only. There is very little space on the page dedicated to the characters' inner lives: their thoughts, their feelings, their observations, etc.

This could be promising with some more editing. It feels like a first draft; the bones of a story that needs a bit more feeding to flesh it out.