The Zodiac Legacy
Convergence
Published by Disney
ISBN: 978 - 0 - 545 - 91675 - 2
Genre: Fantasy
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Book Review
In my opinion I thought this book was very good at entertwining the fantasy aspect with the history and culture of the chinese zodiac. It was a good spin on a sometime overused story plot. When I first heard about it I thought it would either be a weird chinese historical fiction or some book about magic powers and superheroes saving the world. I though this book did a good job of making itself blend those together to make more of a chinese, zodiac power-leaking, saving the world, and good conquering evil withouth the cheesiness and corniness of what you would expect. A good example of this is when Maxwell is trying to get all the zodiac powers. It took out the cheesiness of him accidentaly stumbling into a science place and somehow getting bit by a mutant spider that gave him powers. For a change he actually wanted the powers and had people working for him that were giving him those powers. It was a good book that wasn't the normal but felt oddl familiar as you read it(in a good way). I thoroughly enjoyed and would recommend to almost anybody.
Additional Reviews
Further Explorations
- To learn a liitle bit more about the Chinese Zodiac here is a wikipedia on it.
- Here is a website that will show you what chinese zodiac sign you are and other cool infromation on the topic.
- To learn a little bit about Stan Lee's opinion on his book, here is a youtube video of him talking about it.
- In The Zodiac Legacy: Convergence there is artwork done by Andie Tong, here is some more artwork by him.
- Here is some backround information on the history of ancient China which is where the idea of the zodiac comes from.
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