All four of us (2 adults, 2 boys (8, 11)) thoroughly enjoyed this audiobook. The narrator, Simon Jones, is delightful. His sardonic Bartimaeus regularly made me laugh as I was driving. We downloaded book 2 as soon as we finished book 1. I know a book is good when it bleeds into real life. While walking around NYC, we saw a burly man standing protectively near a magical-looking doorway. My husband whispered in my ear, “On the 6th plane, he’s not an ordinary guard.”