The Amulet of Samarkand: The Bartimaeus Trilogy Book 1

This is an amazing read that I discovered by chance when my little sister was reading it aloud on the beach. Though I only listened briefly I was hooked and I decided at that moment I had to seek out the book and read it for myself.

The book itself is a tale of intrigue, magic and deception in what seems to be a turn of the century London. The story is told from two points of view one of the young magician's apprentice Nathaniel, and the other from the djinni Bartimaeus. I don't want to give to much away but the plot in brief is:

Nathaniel is the talented apprentice to a second rate magician named Arthur Underwood. Arthur Underwood is a pompous magician with little talent and is so wrapped up in his own self importance to notice the great skill of his apprentice Nathaniel. When Nathaniel summons the djinni Bartimaeus to steal the amulet of Samarkand from the magician Simon Lovelace he opens a can of worm that could cost him everything.

I can not say enough about this book other than the fact that I have already moved on to the second one "The Golem's Eye."  I laughed out loud, I was in suspense but at the end of the day I couldn't put it down.