This fantasy series contains many of my favourite fantasy elements: lots of magic, coming of age themes, dragons, secret passages and rooms, time travel, and a smidgen of light romance. Septimus is close friends with the Princess-in-Waiting, Jenna, and also with one of the Manuscriptorium scribes, who goes by the name of Beetle. But who is this mysterious baby girl, and what really happened to their beloved son Septimus?”Īs the series progresses, Septimus becomes the apprentice of the Extraordinary Wizard, who is head of all the wizards and lives in the Wizard Tower. The Heaps take this helpless newborn into their home, name her Jenna, and raise her as their own. That same night, the baby’s father, Silas Heap, comes across a bundle in the snow containing a new born girl with violet eyes. “The seventh son of the seventh son, aptly named Septimus Heap, is stolen the night he is born by a midwife who pronounces him dead. It’s difficult to say too much here without giving spoilers! But here’s the blurb: Septimus as a character isn’t fully revealed until near the end of the book. The first book is about the origins of Septimus himself, separated from his family as a baby. The books follow the Magykal Heap family – parents and seven children – through the trials and tribulations of their life in The Castle. The Septimus Heap books are a young adult fantasy series written by Angie Sage.
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