At first glance "Wizard Chase" seems to be a juvenile fantasy in the Harry Potter vein where everything that's interesting happens by magic. But the more its hero learns the more he begins to suspect something else is going on here. There will be some comparisons to the Harry Potter books . When doing so, Wizard Chase holds up very well. It's definitely its own story, although like the Rowling books, it is populated with a couple of wizards, several gryphons and a dragon or two. But the neat thing about this book is that the magic really isn't magic. I won't spoil it by telling you what it is, but Arthur C. Clarke had a famous quote that fits it well: "Technology sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic."
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