It's impossible to talk about Sandra Forrester's Beatrice Bailey books without some attempt to compare them to Rowling's Harry Potter books. So here goes. Beatrice and her three friends are typical if not stereotypical misfit youngsters, the quest/plot is very formulaic with many token, obligatory, unsurprising, predictable elements. But the world does remind one of the world of Harry Potter: these books are fantasy that deal with the intersection between normal people and witches who live separately/secretly. Forrester's books, however, are shorter, more simplistic, and overall give more an impression of cuteness than conflict and heroism. I like them because I like fantasy, but I wouldn't hold them up as a paragon of the genre. I haven't all four books in the series, but I don't imagine that the plot, which has been laid out in advance, can hold too many surprises. I will probably buy and read them. I don't know anything about Forrester's other, earllier books, aside from their titles. Books by Sandra Forrester(O=own, R=read, E=enjoyed)
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