While almost everyone knows about "Harry Potter & the Sorcerer's Stone", here's what "The Bloodstone Key" is about:
14-year-old Cyrus Nicholson, a shy nerd, is suddenly whisked away from his home and sent to Atarerra Institute of Magics, which is in the city of Yarlford in the magical land of Erthana. While he struggles to understand why he was taken away from his family and sent to a magical school, he meets Jesse Barham, David Harrison, and April Weinstein, three children who were taken away from their broken and abusive families and sent to Atarerra Institute.
But when Cyrus meet the famous mage Dylan Drake (who survived an attack from the wicked mage Estazius Bloodworth when he was 2 years old), he gets more than what he bargained for when Dylan ends up taking him and his unexpected new friends on a magical adventure.
In spite of the book being well-received by critics and Publishers alike, Scholastic Books accused Theresa Beckett of plagiarizing J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter & the Sorcerer's Stone. Yet, many people who read The Bloodstone Key believed that J.K. Rowling had stolen the plot from Beckett. Unfortunately, many bookstores and Britain and the United States refused to sell copies of The Bloodstone Key because they wanted children to read Harry Potter. Ironically, The Bloodstone Key became more popular than Harry Potter & the Sorcerer's Stone among the high school and college students.
And to make things even more ironic, Dylan Drake became more popular than not just Cyrus Nicholson, people who read the Harry Potter books appear to like Bill and drink more than they like to Harry Potter, as Dylan ( who is seen as sassy and arrogant) is more confident and smarter than Harry Potter.
So what's the debate over The Bloodstone Key and Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone? I will let you know that in a later blog post.
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