The final entry in the trilogy, Ptolemy's Gate is a continuation of the Bartimaeus series’ staple wit and over the top action, and the culmination of the growing class struggles in author Jonathan Stroud’s fictional British Empire.
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The idea of a revolution that upends the status quo is frequently tread ground in the realm of Young Adult novels and fiction in general. In the second book of the Bartimaeus Sequence, The Golem’s Eye, author Jonathan Stroud faces the themes of rebellion and struggle in a straightforward but invigorating manner.
“It’s like Harry Potter, but for boys.” This confusingly misguided comment is one I remember distinctly from the book store employee who was trying to sell my grandmother and me The Amulet of Samarkand. The even more baffling part is that it worked.