The magic is out of control!On a journey to Gold Ridge, the four young mages-in-training--Daja, Sandry, Tris and Briar--find their special magics overlapping, sometimes in frightening and destructive ways. One burst of this combined magic leads Daja to create an astonishing vine made of living metal.Her creation is worth a small fortune. But can Daja bargain with the Traders who cast her out without losing her soul?Once again Tamora Pierce, America's most popular writer of young adult fantasy, leads the Full Cast Family in ...
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The magic is out of control!On a journey to Gold Ridge, the four young mages-in-training--Daja, Sandry, Tris and Briar--find their special magics overlapping, sometimes in frightening and destructive ways. One burst of this combined magic leads Daja to create an astonishing vine made of living metal.Her creation is worth a small fortune. But can Daja bargain with the Traders who cast her out without losing her soul?Once again Tamora Pierce, America's most popular writer of young adult fantasy, leads the Full Cast Family in a thrilling exploration of her intricately woven Circle of Magic.
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Add this copy of Daja's Book (Circle of Magic, 3) (Circle of Magic, 3) to cart. $68.10, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2004 by Full Cast Audio.
Well, I generally try not to be too harsh when reviewing a book that is clearly meant for pre-teens, many of whom must be cajoled and/or cattle-prodded into picking up a chapter book at all, but I do miss Pierce's lightness of touch that is present in her other fantasy universe and in the first book of this series. I think what is starting to grate on me in this Magic Circle series is the obvious parallel structure of plot in each of the books. Each one so far has built up to some sort of natural disaster. Maybe this is on purpose and perhaps this is the ENTIRE point of the series (again, let's make allowances for the target reader age) but some of Pierce's deftness has been replaced with (dare I say it?) just a smidge of heavy-handedness. Whatever. I'm still going to read the next one because I'm a compulsive series finisher. And Pierce at her worst (which this is not) is still better than countless other YA authors at their best, otherwise I wouldn't still be wandering into that section of the bookstore to see if she's written anything new.