The Magic Thief (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition)
FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Conn should have dropped dead the day he picked Nevery's pocket and touched the wizard's locus magicalicus, a stone used to focus magic and work spells. But for some reason he did not. Nevery finds that interesting, and he takes Conn as his apprentice on
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FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Conn should have dropped dead the day he picked Nevery's pocket and touched the wizard's locus magicalicus, a stone used to focus magic and work spells. But for some reason he did not. Nevery finds that interesting, and he takes Conn as his apprentice on
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780606147613 (0606147616)
Publish date: April 21st 2009
Publisher: Turtleback Books
Pages no: 419
Edition language: English
Series: Magic Thief (#1)
First person narratives will always bug me, but when they are as droll and stereotypical as whatever this one was called, they make me feel apprehensive about even picking one up again. It's a formulaic children's fantasy book about nothing much, but it should keep kids with little imagination and f...
This is feeling like a 3.5/3.75 read for me.Characters and world were interesting and it was a fairly quick pace.
I liked the pace of this one, and I loved the voice of the MC. I felt like it was unique and provided something different for readers. This will be the first book in awhile where I'm actually planning on reading the whole series.
The premise of this story–a city that runs on magic–is fascinating, and I loved the descriptions of the city itself. The book itself had the feeling of the first book in a trilogy, but the characters were so great (a wizard, the thief who steals his locus-stone, the muscle who knits and bakes biscui...
This is the first in yet another fantasy series, the life-blood of many a young reader. Our hero, Connwear, is the cheeky young apprentice to a curmudgeonly wizard. Together they expend their energies and talents to discover where all the magic in their city is disappearing to.
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