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| Original Title: | The Magicians' Guild |
| ISBN: | 1841493139 (ISBN13: 9781841493138) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | The Black Magician Trilogy #1 |
| Characters: | Sonea, Rothen, Akkarin |
| Setting: | Kyralia |
Trudi Canavan
Paperback | Pages: 467 pages Rating: 3.95 | 67281 Users | 2486 Reviews
Details About Books The Magicians' Guild (The Black Magician Trilogy #1)
| Title | : | The Magicians' Guild (The Black Magician Trilogy #1) |
| Author | : | Trudi Canavan |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 467 pages |
| Published | : | January 31st 2004 by Orbit (first published 2001) |
| Categories | : | Fantasy. Magic. Young Adult. Fiction. High Fantasy. Epic Fantasy. Adventure |
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"We should expect this young woman to be more powerful than our average novice, possibly even more powerful than the average magician." This year, like every other, the magicians of Imardin gather to purge the city of undesirables. Cloaked in the protection of their sorcery, they move with no fear of the vagrants and miscreants who despise them and their work-—until one enraged girl, barely more than a child, hurls a stone at the hated invaders...and effortlessly penetrates their magical shield. What the Magicians' Guild has long dreaded has finally come to pass. There is someone outside their ranks who possesses a raw power beyond imagining, an untrained mage who must be found and schooled before she destroys herself and her city with a force she cannot yet control.Rating About Books The Magicians' Guild (The Black Magician Trilogy #1)
Ratings: 3.95 From 67281 Users | 2486 ReviewsCommentary About Books The Magicians' Guild (The Black Magician Trilogy #1)
This review was written by Manon for RantingDragon.comThe redundant beginningSonea is a dwell that lives in the slums. Everyone in the slums hates the Magicians that live safely, luxuriously and arrogantly up in their Magicians Guild. Only those of the Houses can become Magicians, and those in the slums are regarded as rats of the city, without any magical potential.Until Sonea and her gang start throwing rocks to the heads of the Magicians that have gathered for the annual Purge (the Purge"She was special, but in a way he could not have guessed. She had magic!" - DNF 67% - I am sorry, but I can't take more of the insipid interactions between these flat and dull characters (also, stupid) who keep running around in this vague and generic world where nuance doesn't exist and where everyone generalize to excess. Don't even get me started about the writing, so bland and repetitive that it would be laughable if it wasn't so terrible. I really don't care if it gets better after. I
This and my other reviews can be found at http://amethystbookwyrm.blogspot.co.uk/In the city of Imardin every year magicians drive the Thieves, beggars and the poor out of the city without any trouble, until one year a young woman called Sonea is able to break through their magical barrier. Now, the hunt is on, as the magicians to find her before she destroys the city and herself. Meanwhile, Sonea is trying to hide from them and the bounty on her head by taking refuge with the Thieves.The
The Magicians' Guild (Black Magician Trilogy, #1), Trudi Canavan The Magicians' Guild is the first fantasy novel in The Black Magician series by Trudi Canavan. Published in 2001, it is followed by The Novice (2002) and The High Lord (2003). The book tells the story of Sonea, a young girl from the slums, as she discovers her magical potential. When she hurls a stone through a magical barrier, accidentally injuring a magician behind it, Sonea finds herself on the run from the powerful Magicians'
3.5 stars. Trudi Canavan is an author I'd been looking forward to read for a long time, which is why she was pretty high on my list for the WWEnd Women of Genre Fiction Reading Challenge. Thanks to my book hoarding habits, I found that I actually own the first books from both her Black Magician Trilogy and the Traitor Spy Trilogy and didn't know which to tackle first. Then I found out that the latter series is a continuing story of some of the characters in the former, which ultimately decided
3.5 stars. This was *ok*. If the pacing had been better it would have scraped a 4, but Im not sure that I will continue the series.
I love Trudi Canavan's ability to create imagined worlds with strong characters. Sonea is an ordinary slum girl, poor, yet honest. She has questionable ties that she left long ago in order to pursue a life her aunt and uncle would approve of. When the magicians of the guild come to purge the city of slum scum, Sonea finds herself amongst her old friendships. In the spirit of the rebellion from the city folk Sonea throws a stone at a group of magicians who have a magic shield up. Using her anger,
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