January Book Report, Pt. 6

My reaction to Children of the Lamp: The Akhenaten Adventure, is that it was a pretty good book, one I would probably read once or twice again, but not up there with my all time favorites. But a pretty solid ranking, so, you know, pretty good book. I think part of the reason I didn't give it a higher ranking may be because I have never read the author, P.B. Kerr, before. Since I generally read by author (by series, usually), I think I may be more biased against a new author than one I've read before, like Gary Paulsen, who I have read many books by him. But I really do think that other people might like this book.
I think I would recommend this book more towards the type of people who seem to like the more sort of realistic fantasy. I'm not saying that djinn are real, I'm just saying it's more realistic (at least to me), then say, something like The Chronicles of Narnia. I just mean that djinn seem more real than some magical kingdom hidden in some wardrobe. So I wouldn't recommend this book to someone who hates fantasy or wants a scientific answer to every little thing he or she reads. But to almost anyone else, I think that they might like this book. And this can sort of be a change of pace from some high flying action adventure book, just in the fact that it seems just to move a little slower. All in all, a pretty universal book, something everybody could like.
As for reading more books by the author, P.B. Kerr, I think it's entirely possible that I might. Like I said earlier, I usually tend to read series', so this falls right in that category. (If you can't tell, the series is Children of the Lamp. It confused me at first, too.) And this was his first childrens' book, too, so I think that he'll just get better as the series goes on.
But for reading other books about djinn and/or genies, that's entirely possible. I'm not saying I'm going to run out and read all however many pages there are of Arabian Nights, but if some other book caught my eye, I'm not going to skip over it just because it's about djinn and/or genies, whatever the book decides to call them. To summarize, I thought it was a pretty good book, and I think that almost anyone could enjoy it.