While this new take on a magical academy is imaginative, the narrative wanders, spending too much time on bickering, dead ends, and flashbacks. And Cyrus, newly transferred from London, uses his clairvoyance to keep everyone out of trouble. Rachel, a wielder of Destruction magic, helps Fort fight his battles. While he quickly makes enemies with the aggressive Destruction students, he also makes important friends. When he arrives, Fort is given an ultimatum: learn three spells in three days or be sent home. Although the school teaches both Healing magic and Destruction magic, Fort is determined to master the latter in order to avenge his father. Instead of a castle with turrets and magical creatures roaming the forest, Fort’s new school is on a military base complete with armed soldiers and high-tech security. After 12-year-old Fort’s father is abducted during an alien attack on Washington, D.C., he jumps at the chance to attend a school of magic that is preparing to go to war with the invaders.įort is anxious to start his new school, but he finds Oppenheimer School to be nothing like Hogwarts.
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