Fight and Flight

After the near-death experience the wizards experienced in the third book of Scott Meyer’s Magic 2.o series, Jeff has decided they all need to start practicing their combat abilities. The wizards decide that in order to do this properly, they need some sort of fake army to practice against. So Jeff develops dragons for them to fight and the other wizards develop and test new offensive spells to take the dragons out. Coding the dragons’ behavior turns out to be quite a challenge for Jeff, so he tries to take a short cut that leads to disaster. Dragons are spontaneously popping up all over the British Isles and cannot be controlled or harmed in any way. The wizards have to work together to defeat the dragons and save the world. Brit and Gwen travel to the Scottish Highlands to take care of a set of dragons there, Phillip and Martin take care of some cave-invading dragons in Wales, Roy and Jeff take care of dragons that have attacked the town of Camelot, and Tyler and Gary try to take out some dragons in the English countryside. While they are trying to save the world, they aren’t paying attention to the villagers of Leadchurch, whose opinions of the wizards have soured tremendously. They find themselves caught fighting dragons and the people they live near, trying to save the town and their reputations.

This is the moment that has been long awaited: dragons. Since the series began I have been waiting on Scott Meyer’s interpretation of dragons. It is so fun and hilarious seeing the way the dragons change throughout the book and how the wizards choose to deal with them. It is also very interesting to finally get a perspective from a character that lives in Leadchurch that isn’t one of the wizards. Readers are able to hear from Honor, a young orphan girl that tends sheep with her brother. Seeing the way that wizards are perceived from locals of the time period rather than just from other time travelers like themselves was a really important thing at this stage in the series. As relationships, both friendly and romantic, continue to grow it is fun to see the ways the characters continue to change over time. As well as the interactions between the medieval England settlement and the Atlantis settlement. This is yet another funny and light read from Scott Meyer. The reviews for the first three books in the series can be found on this site as well.