Briar's Book
by:
Tamora Pierce (author)
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780590553599 (0590553593)
Publish date: April 1st 1999
Publisher: Scholastic US
Pages no: 272
Edition language: English
Series: Circle of Magic (#4)
Solid end to the series. Nice to see the fantasy world having as much difficulty with an epidemic as the human one.
This is the fourth book in the Circle of Magic series, set in a completely different world than Pierce's Tortall books. Coming to this series after those books, I felt I had taken a step back, since they were written earlier than her later books in that universe, and Pierce grew as a writer through ...
OK, finally. The book that justifies my nostalgic expectations for this series. 'Sandry's Book' got a pass through the potential of the characters being introduced and the full weight of re-experiencing these books for the first time. But with 'Tris's Book' and 'Daja's Book' that nostalgia began to ...
Briar escaped life as a homeless young thief when his magic was discovered. Since then, he has renamed himself and, to a certain extent, reinvented himself. He realizes how much he's changed in skills, outlook and assumptions (like trusting authorities, or actually *wanting* to be clean) when one ...
Absolutely love this series. All the characters are wonderfully done! Sandry, Daja, and Briar are by far my favorites.