04.04.06
Key to the Griffon’s Lair: Third Post (Respect)
This book is interesting, but I still feel like the author has little respect for the main characters. Not only are they doing pitifully little to find the crypt that they are supposed to be looking for, but the story is treating them as though they were small children when they are not! They are supposed to be twelve and thirteen years old, but it is as though they are little more than five or six. I mean, I know that Moyra is very much a daddy’s girl, but what father picks up his thirteen year old daughter? Lifts her feet off the ground as he hugs her, perhaps, but not actually pick her up! And her protests to be put down are exactly what a five year old wanting to be treated like a big girl would say! We are in the ninth book in the series - the characters deserve better, the audience most certainly deserves better and Wizards of the Coast should be ashamed of themselves for not having higher standards for their publications!