Hysterically funny book about a rather bumbling wizard who has to take on being the Dark Lord for a season, for reasons of tourism. Amazing griffins, who get a whole second book to themselves.
The first book to be written in this incredible series which follows generations of very human animals through incredible adventures. These are definitely full of very real topics: slavery, violence, religion, and much more, but such great magic-ish…
Septimus Heap is the seventh son of a seventh son, and one who disappears at birth. That's really all you need to know, except that this very funny and fantastical series has a lot of very thick books in it!