Magic Kingdom for Sale - Sold!

The start of a marvelous series by Terry Brooks, begins with a startling twist. Ben Holiday a successful but depressed lawyer buys a magic kingdom. Duped by a magician but extremely driven Ben overcomes the odds to become the true king Landover needs. Brooks creates a kingdom where faeries are dangerous misty creatures and other magical creatures are only slightly less so. The supporting characters of Abernathy, a talking dog, and Quester, the fumbling court wizard, make this book funny with thier constant friendly bickering and scheming. Ben's character is deep and much of this story surrounds his discovery of who he is, the struggle between who Ben wishes to be and his true identity is revealed by the physical struggles he goes through. Ben's struggle is so true to life that even though the story is fictional fantasy, readers are able to connect with him. Although it often seems that the people which Ben rules are non-existent, they are simply in the background. The story is enjoyable and made even more so in audio format.  This book is another of Terry Brooks excellent works of art.


This blog is meant to be a review of fantasy books which I consider to be clean. What is meant by clean you might ask. First I consider fowl language. As I take offense at the use of even borderline fowl language, I rarely listen to an audio book which includes it. Second I consider erotic scenes. These scenes rarely offer any true content to a book I have found and they are offensive to me when erotic pleasures are detailed. So if you are looking for erotic fantasy this is not the site for you. So with this in mind, Magic Kingdom for Sale-Sold! is a fairly clean book. Fowl language is infrequent and borderline. The erotic scenes are not too detailed the worst depiction is of Ben's eventual lover, the sylph Willow,  appearing naked in the river.