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

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

I don't enjoy prequels generally, so I may be giving this book too little credit. By their very nature, prequels have a predestined outcome, and it always feels that they have a sense of "nudge nudge, wink wink" when events that will clearly influence the original novels crop up. If anything else, I 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

Esta será una reseña un tanto descarnada, pero no porque el libro sea un completo fiasco sino porque los defectos que le vi fueron demasiado grandes para mi punto de vista. Para empezar, Canavan parece tener una vaga idea de qué es lo que quiere contar, pero no sabe cómo hacer que suceda. Empieza co Leggi tutto

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

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

4,5 stars - English Paperback Review follows after Easter.