Title: The Hobbit

Author: J.R.R. Tolkien

Genre: Fantasy

Stars: 5 (and more)

Age Recommendation: 10 and up

The Hobbit is an excellent fantasy/adventure book about a hobbit( creatures who usually do not like adventure) along with some dwarves and a wizard (sometimes) going on a journey across the world to do multiple related things that are hard to sum up briefly. I would recommend for age ten and up for peril, old languaging,and some character death.

This books biggest strengths are the descriptive and fascinating environment and world , as well as it’s well developed and flawed characters that seem human,even though they are not. Middle-Earth is a fully developed world that seems as though the story were built around it as opposed to it hastily being built to match the story. An interesting strength of the main character is that he rises to the occasion and embodies the job that was given to him, even though at first he seemed entirely unfit for it. There are some interesting characters throughout, and one even that may not seem very interesting or complex,but of whom your opinion changes of by the end of the book. One flaw of The Hobbit is that most of the dwarves are practically interchangeable.  But the main characters are so well done that you can forgive it for having less developed side characters. If you appreciate stories with an unusual type of hero and a world with seemingly as rich of a history as our own, than you are in for a treat! I highly recommend!