[the_old_crowd] Shadowmancer?

[Catherine Coleman]

In message <0cc801c412c3$33ed5110$4f5ffea9 at cq5hs01>, pennylin 
<pennylin at swbell.net> writes
>Hi --
>
>This week's "Newsweek" has a blurb titled "Hotter than Potter," which
>caught
>my eye.  It's touting a children's fantasy story called "Shadowmancer" by
>Anglican Vicar G. P. Taylor, and it supposedly outsold OoP in the UK for
>several weeks last summer.  Taylor apparently got $550,000 for the US
>publishing rights, and there's a sequel due out in June.
>
>Anyone read this book?

It has been very popular here - to the extent that they've brought out 
special editions etc.  I have a copy, but haven't yet read it - I 
started to a few months ago, and then, for some reason, lost interest. 
I'll give it another go this weekend and let you know what I think.

Catherine