Bartimaeus Trilogy by Jonathan Stroud

Blake really liked this trilogy so I had to try it out for myself. It's not my favorite, but it is still a pretty decent trilogy. Bartimaeus is a Djinni that is summoned by Nathaniel, an in-training-wizard that was sold by his parents when he was five. Nathaniel is a very smart young boy that has a horrible tutor and so he studies and summons this powerful, yet somewhat cowardly djinni to help him in his various plots and schemes to get revenge on a fellow wizard that humiliated him during a party and his master did not intervene. At the start, Nathaniel is naive, selfish, and bitter towards life and all wizards that think they are better than him and of course, the non-wizard resistance trying to free themselves from the control and power of the wizards. All wizards are to forget their real name since knowing your real name can be used against you and destroy you. Bartimaeus learns Nathaniel's name and therefore has some power over what Nathaniel can and can't do. Nathaniel keeps summoning Bartimaeus partly because he is afraid another wizard will and Bartimaeus will give out his real name and Bartimaeus actually uses his brain and think logically instead of just following Nathaniel's orders. This trilogy is nice in the sense that there is no love story, just a story of three different people who are suppose to hate each other and by the end of the trilogy are willingly working together.