Flyte

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Flyte
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Cover art for Flyte by Angie Sage
Author Angie Sage
Cover artist Mark Zug
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Series Septimus Heap (Book 2)
Genre Fantasy novel
PublishedMarch 2006 HarperCollins and Bloomsbury Publishing
Media typePrint (Hardcover Paperback)
Pages521 pp (Paperback)
ISBN 978-0-7475-8449-0 (UK Paperback)
OCLC 77796267
Preceded by Magyk  
Followed by Physik  

Flyte is a 2006 children's novel by Angie Sage and the second book in the Septimus Heap series. The book's cover was modelled after the in-story book: How to Survive Dragon Fostering: A Practykal Guide with the Flyte Charm lying on top. Flyte was released in March 2006 through HarperCollins and Bloomsbury Publishing.

Contents

Plot

The book begins with a "fair haired" boy rowing a canoe to the place where Necromancer DomDaniel drowned, along with his ship. His skeleton climbs into the canoe, while the fair haired boy thinks about exacting his revenge on all the people who underestimated him. He thinks that they'll be sorry, especially when he becomes the ExtraOrdinary Wizard. Septimus Heap has become the apprentice to Marcia Overstrand, the ExtraOrdinary Wizard, and a year has gone by. Septimus's older brother, Simon, had run away after an argument between him and Sarah and Silas Heap about Septimus, who Simon dislikes. He comes back and kidnaps Jenna on his horse, Thunder. Septimus goes to search for her and he is assisted in his search by his brother Nicko, who helps build boats at Jannit Maarten's boatyard. Along the way, Septimus meets his old friend Boy 409 from the young army, who went missing before the events of Book 1. He is now called Wolf Boy. Jenna runs away from Simon's observatory in The Badlands and makes her way towards The Port. Eventually Septimus is able to rescue Jenna with his elder brother Nicko's help from the Port but they are tracked by Sleuth, Simon's tracking ball.

They make their way to the Marram Marshes where they take the Dragon-Boat from Aunt Zelda's cottage and fly her to the Castle. However, they are pursued by Simon, who used a Flyte Charm to fly in the sky. Simon drops a huge Thunderflash on the Dragon-Boat's wing and it drops over Jannit Marten's Boatyard. Septimus, Jenna, and Aunt Zelda are able to revive her through the Transubstantiation Triple spell.

Septimus is also in search of the long lost Flyte charm. He finds the separated charm and unites it along with the small pair-of-wings Flyte charm that Marcia had given him as a token for his apprenticeship. Eventually he is able to fly and even warns Simon never to harm Jenna again. Also, the rock that Jenna gave him at Aunt Zelda's cottage turns out to be the egg of a dragon and eventually it hatches. Septimus absolutely adores the dragon and names him Spit Fyre. The dragon, based on the seeing-is-believing basis, identifies Marcia as his mother after yelling at him on the dragon launch pad.

Septimus rescues Marcia by identifying the shadow that has been trailing her. He also finds out that the ShadowSafe Marcia is developing contains, unbeknownst to her, the bones of the dead Necromancer, DomDaniel, which, once reassembled, tries to kill Marcia. With Septimus's help, Marcia is able to Identify him and he is once again destroyed.

Characters

Other characters

Dragons

Reception

Critical reception for the book was positive, [1] with the School Library Journal giving positive reviews for the print book and its audio version. [2] [3] The Toronto Star gave a positive review for Flyte, saying that it "soars past Magyk". [4]

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References

  1. "Review: Flyte". Booklist. Retrieved 17 April 2013.
  2. "Audio Pick #8212;Flyte: Septimus Heap, Book 2 (unabr.)". School Library Journal. Retrieved 17 April 2013.
  3. "Grades 5 & Up Cont". School Library Journal. Retrieved 17 April 2013.
  4. "Flyte soars past Magyk; Septimus Heap Book Two – Flyte by Angie Sage". Toronto Star. 1 March 2007. Retrieved 17 April 2013.