L'apprendista del mago

Trudi Canavan's new prequel to her Black Magician trilogy is a decent book that just moves along too slowly. It is a story about the origins of Higher Magic, how the wasteland between Schakan and Krylia was formed, the origins of the Magician Guild, and a female group of survivors of the horrible wa Leggi tutto

The Magician's Apprentice is considered #0.5 in Trudi Canavan's The Black Magician Trilogy . It was written after, but serves as a set up for The Magicians' Guild , which I have not read. It mainly follows the story of Tessia, a young healer apprenticed to her father, who discovers her magical abiliti Leggi tutto

Definitely a worthy prequel to the Black Magician Trilogy. I enjoyed the story and the fact that it wasn't entirely predictable. I would definitely recommend it to any of Trudi Canavan's fans. The only thing I had an issue with was that the story jumped around between more characters than I thought

This and my other reviews can be found at http://amethystbookwyrm.blogspot.co.uk/ The Magician’s Apprentice is about Tessia, the local healer’s daughter, who unknowingly uses magic after fending of the advances of a visiting Sachakan mage, she becomes an apprentice to the magician Lord Dakon alongsid Leggi tutto

He liked the idea that if either of them ever fell from grace, the other might be there to offer support First Sentence: There was no fast and painless way to perform an amputation, Tessia knew. O, what a journy. I remember reading The Magicians' Guild many, many years back - so many years in fact I Leggi tutto

Good Intro to Fantasy; but not Groundbreaking. I have not read any of Trudi Canavan's Black Magician Trilogy (THE MAGICIAN'S GUILD, THE NOVICE, and THE HIGH LORD), although I have thought about it for a while. It is obvious that this edition to the world introduced in the original trilogy was written Leggi tutto

Reading vlog: https://youtu.be/UVqyVmY3T1o Buddy read with Deborah from Hills of Books. This book instantly restored my earlier disappointment in the finale of the previous trilogy. Although a standalone prequel, it was a thick one and added so much context to the land of both Sachaka and the countrys Leggi tutto

I've come across Trudi Canavan many times when looking for good fantasy reads, and I finally decided to give it a go. The first few pages of The Magician's Apprentice were quite exciting, I thought Tessia would be an interesting character. But further on I started to get doubts, the plot was a bit s Leggi tutto

A very addictive read that I would willingly read again and again. A book I could not put down with lots of fantasy elements that I like. The only reason I didn't give this five stars is because of the constant switches between the impressive cast of characters, some of which were not as interesting Leggi tutto

The Magicians Apprentice is 0.5 in the The Black Magician Trilogy . The first instalment in the trilogy was published in 2001 and this book was published in 2009. Perhaps I should have started the series in publishing order rather than story order, but I spent most of the novel questioning why this w Leggi tutto