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Originally Posted by nekokami
... an example, Amazon kept recommending The Amulet of Samarkand and I kept ignoring it as some lame HP knockoff-- for a while. I eventually read some reviews, tentatively put it on a wishlist...
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Nekokami - I totally agree about online picks, many times they are pretty good if you can look into them w/o investing too much initially. I totally love the Bartimaeus Trilogy and had a great time reading all of them. Like you, I thought there were a few HP knock-offs, but when you think about it you can say that Rowling just capitalized on what teens/young adults like to read, so all of these apparent knock-offs aren't really following HP so much as they are all following the basic recipe for enticing readers of a specific group.
One other series that was similar to the two is the "His Dark Materials" trilogy, I read this one first and it was pretty fun too.