The Phoenix of Destiny (Geronimo Stilton and the Kingdom of Fantasy: Special Edition): An Epic Kingdom of Fantasy Adventure by Geronimo Stilton

The Phoenix of Destiny (Geronimo Stilton and the Kingdom of Fantasy: Special Edition): An Epic Kingdom of Fantasy Adventure Reviews

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  Ann

  I read it aloud to a class of 10 year olds. They loved it. The pages are gold-edged and the cover is very beautiful. The children appreciated the way it looked. The Kindle edition would have been a big disappointment to them.
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  Siva Nachiappan

  the book was ok but the end of the book was very obvios and the story kept on dragging on
  but it had a nice message and moral
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  Diego Alarcon

  Es fantástico. Este libro es muy divertido (=
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  Jen

  I really enjoyed this story. I checked it out from my library because I love how the book is designed: it has an intriguing cover and gold-edged pages! I read it as part of the
  Tome Topple Readathon. And I'm glad I did. This book made for a nice break when I was feeling bored by another of the tomes I am reading (*ahem*
  Lonesome Dove *cough, cough*).
  
  Sadly, I still have over 500 pages to go in Lonesome Dove, but I wanted to finish one of the four tomes I was reading, so I focused on this one today (August 8, 2017).
  
  I really enjoyed this story. Geronimo Stilton is a delightful mouse protagonist and his adventures in here made for fascinating reading. I loved how we readers were given mazes and puzzles to solve, and a strange alphabet to decode (with the help of the key at the end of the book). :-)
  
  I do wish, though, that the pages that asked us to find the phoenix feathers and Geronimo's notebook and pen had been worked into the beginning of the story. Coming as they did at the end, well. . . I did enjoy this story, but I didn't want to go through all 574 pages again to find those things. :-/
  
  Apart from that minor complaint, though, this was a fun story. I loved how the text incorporated special fonts and font effects to delineate certain words (example: the word blue was colored blue).
  
  And I really loved the illustrations. The team who created them did a fantastic job! They were so vibrant! :-)
  
  I was a wee bit disappointed that it took Geronimo so long to realize that Blossom so wasn't herself that he should investigate why. But he did eventually investigate, and he did eventually solve that mystery. It took me by surprise that "Blossom" was really her twin sister (she had a twin?!). I had thought she was just bewitched by Cackle, the queen of the witches. So that was a fun twist, and it explained why "Blossom" kept sending Geronimo after increasingly difficult-to-find treasures. She wanted them to trap the real Blossom away forever! :-)
  
  I did find it sort of annoying how, every once in awhile, Geronimo would drop a line referencing an earlier adventure of his in the Kingdom of Fantasy. I hadn't realized there were earlier adventures. But in the end of the book there was a long list of other stories featuring Geronimo and others. This book is apparently the eighth!
  
  Again, though, this was a really fun story and I really enjoyed it. :-)
  
  I am now hoping that my library owns others in this series, so that I can read all of Geronimo's adventure stories. :-)
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  Sven

  Geweldig boek. Gekocht voor onze zoon, maar het boek trok zo aan dat ik het ook maar gelezen heb.
  Zeker een aanrader voor de jonge lezer.
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  Christopher

  I loved it! Humungous story, you will be hanging on the edge of your chair from the intensity of the newest Kingdom of Fantasy adventure!
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  Dan

  My son and I agree that this is a five-star book!
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  Annet Schuurman

  waarom deze boeken altijd favoriet zullen blijven:
  
  - healing my inner child
  - nostalgie
  - kras en ruik pagina's (hallo hoe creatief)
  - puzzels en zoekplaten tussendoor
  - geheimschrift
  - ZOVEEL fantasie landen/wezens
  - lijkt alsof je mee word genomen op reis
  - alle afbeeldingen en verschillende lettertypes
  
  Dit nam mij echt weer terug naar de tijd waarin ik minstens 1x per week naar de bibliotheek ging om altijd wel weer geronimo stilton of thea stilton boeken mee te nemen en te kijken of er al nieuwe op de plank lagen. :)
  
  Ik zal Elisabetta Dami, de schrijfster (waarvan ik heel vroeger dacht dat het echt Geronimo was) voor altijd dankbaar zijn. Sis u helped me through the tough times when I was a 9 year old <3
  1000000000000000/5 ily
  
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  Jimmy

  I stopped reading on page 260. I set the book down on the library shelf to be shelved!!!! Oops, silly me. I plan to finish this book. I got the book back and finished it.
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  KidFlash

  Hola a todos los lectores del mundo este libro es muy interesante porque Jerónimo🐭 se mete en el Reino de la fantasía, y la reina del reino de la fantasía que se llama floridiana se pone muy rara y floridiana le dice que vaya a sitios donde le pueden matar por ejemplo fue a vallechichas a murcielagolandia a vampiroluria a brujolonia a castillolas a montegigante y al pueblo de la melancolía y en monte jigante un dragón le hizo algo al legendarium mirad en la última página del libro, ¡ha! no me había acordado en algunas páginas hay juegos, y al principio su abuelo le pidió a Jerónimo que creará un libro 📙 y al final mirad lo que pasa, adiós a todos.
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  Rebecca

  I read this book for nostalgic reasons. I do realize I’m not really the target audience for this book. I remember reading the kingdom of fantasy books but I had never read this one growing up. I thought the plot was really repetitive and through the middle I got kind of done with it. However I think it ends in a very meaningful way so that’s why I gave it three stars.
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  Kristy McRae

  Geronimo is one of my son's favorite characters! We love reading these together.
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  Diana

  As a bibliophile I was drawn in by the cool illustrations, quality paper and that a recent book had gold trim. So I borrowed it! On one hand it is utterly delightful, Geronimo is a mouse, who had many adventures in the land of Fantasy, and he returns once more to a series of quests set by the Fairy Queen Blossom. However Blossom appears somewhat changed, in fact after 1st visit he is greeted by locked doors and doesn't see her throughout. (Not often I start a series with the last one out).
  The writing changes fonts, illustrations are prolific and the story is interspersed with find it puzzles and mazes (unusually for me I found them easy). There is a plethora of characters with new and old friends involved.
  As an adult I found myself wanting a child to read it to, (and wondering if my grandson is too old for this or would it spark a revival of interest in reading?) The author takes a ton of cliches and re-invents them with an original outlook. (or something like that). Yet after awhile the repeated start of Blossom not seeing him is annoying. While the adventures unique and enjoyable, they are too easily and quickly dealt with. Or I'm too used to adult or older kids fantasy!
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  Mia

  The Phoenix Of Destiny, by Geronimo Stilton, is about Geronimo going on an adventure to retrieve items from different places in the kingdom of fantasy. Queen Blossom of The Fairies is a nice, and kind queen and is a good friend to Geronimo. But, She has been acting mean lately. What's wrong with Blossom? Find Out in the book! (This is #8 of Geronimo's Kingdom Of Fantasy Adventure so read the first one to understand!) I recommend this book to kids 8-10. If you like fantasy, comedy, and action, then this is the book for you! Geronimo is a mouse that works at a newspaper place. He can get scared a lot of times but never gives up! The Phoenix of destiny is actually a frog with a curse! Her real name is Scarletthopper. Daughter of Scribblehopper, a friend of Geronimo. I rate this book 9 stars!
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  Maktimah #20sen

  this time Geronimo Is going to go the the Kingdom of Fantasy. this time, Is very dangerous, mysterious and scariest quest! and the book is so beautiful though! Blossom,Queen of the fairies, seems to be very disturbing and mean! he demand Geronimo go to the every land of the Kingdom of Fantasy to search for items that she want. Actually the mean Blossom wasn't a REAL Blossom, but she is Blossom evil twins, Wither. She demand Geronimo to search for Sweet Dreams cradle at the Munchy wizards,Crystal coffin at the land of Vampirat, Essence of darkness at the Batlandia, click clack chain at the dragons place, and many more! this Is the best trip ever that I ever read
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  Paula

  Pienso que el libro es muy bueno si te gusta la fantasía, personajes ficticios y muchas aventuras.en este viaje al reino de la fantasía se encontrarán con algo muy extraño..... la reina floridiana estará muy cambiada y le pedirá a Geronimo Stilton que vaya en busca de 7 tesoros legendarios guardados en los lugares más misteriosos del reino de la fantasía. Estos 7 tesoros son :
  - el carillón de los sueños de oro
  - la esencia de la oscuridad
  - el ataúd de cristal
  - el pelo verde de las tres brujañas
  - la máscara de piedra
  - la cadena que ata y no desata
  - el concentrado de tristeza
  
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  Lisa

  I'm giving this five stars because of how much my kids (5 and 8) love it. This is by far the longest book that my five-year-old has read all by himself. So obviously he's pretty enamored with it. I dig all the maps and puzzles and mazes and illustrations.