Some books are just better as audiobooks. If you get the right reader, the book can really come alive! A bad reader, however, can make even the best book be awful. In the case of The Amulet of Samarkand, you have a combination of a clever, well-written story by Jonathan Stroud and a wonderful reader, Simon Jones.
Nathaniel is eleven and a magician's apprentice in London. He knows he is a smarter and better magician than his master. To prove it, he secretly summons a 5,000 year-old djinn (demon), Bartimaeus, to steal the Amulet of Samarkand from Simon Lovelace, an evil and ruthless magician. Djinn and boy have soon bit off more than they can chew when the entire magical world is after them including a mysterious assassin who will never stop searching. . . .
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