Subtitle: Young Wizards series #8
Recommended to me by: a friend
I saw a recommendation for this book right before a trip, and found an ebook at the library to download and take with me for airplane reading. It was enjoyable in that context. I had read the first few books in the series a long time ago.
The more I thought about it after finishing it, the more dubious I got. It is a Christian allegory that ends up being (perhaps unintentionally?) anti-Semitic in the parallels it draws. Over the years, I have lost my taste for personified powers and angsty teens, but I am far older than the target audience.