Septimus Heap

So first up is my current obsession (it changes often) Septimus Heap. I started reading this series when I was 12 or 13 and only the first two books were out. All these years later, the last book is coming out NEXT WEEK! I'm way too excited about this and have been ranting about it for about a month, when I started rereading the series in preparation. I've been amazed to find myself enjoying the series even more than I have in the past, although I've reread the first few books many, many times. The complex web of three-dimensional characters never ceases to boggle my mind, especially when I was rereading the first book, Magyk. I mean seriously, there's a scene where six characters (one of them a dog) are falling down a garbage chute, and each one of them gets a description of their emotions at that moment.  It tells you so much about each character and their motivations in just their reactions. So awesome! It makes me so sad that more people haven't read this series. Sure, they're definitely written for children, but so's Harry Potter! I often think that Septimus Heap is better written than Harry Potter, if only because of the depth of its characters. In thinking about how to describe Septimus Heap to non-readers, I decided to compare it to something else awesome: the TV show Avatar: The Last Airbender. I noticed a lot of similarities between the characters, particularly Septimus and Aang. I think I'm going to go in depth with the comparisons (just for fun) so I'm going to put them in separate posts and rant on them at length.