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Summary: Another Magical eddition to the Circle of Magic series
Review: In Daja's book, Daja, Tris, Sandry, and Briar, along with their teachers Frostpipe, Niko, Lark, and Rosethorn are on a mission away from their familiar home at Winding Circle Temple. Up north people are facing a three year drought, along with many grassfires, causing them to lose their most precious crops. But when the four children arrive they find other problems. Ever since Sandry bound their powers together during the earthquake (at the end of Sandry's book) strange things have been happening. Their powers seem to be rubbing off on eachother. The result being a very strange plant that seems to be made of metal. Daja also finds herself facing another problem when, for the first time since becoming a mage, she encounters a fellow trader, which has interesting results. By the end of this book she's forced to make a difficult decision that will effect her life forever.I was very impressed with this book. Though not as good as Tris's book, Daja's book continues to develope the charecters were learing to know and love by facing them with new challenges that bonds them together and tears them apart. The new charecters are just as great! If you're a fan of this series you must read this book. It may be the shorest in the series but it's still a great work of fantasy.
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Summary: Not too impressed so far...
Review: In Daja's book, forest fires threaten them all. Daja learns how to make a new kind of metal called living metal. She meets a Trader for the first time after she became a tragshi. This meeting makes her realize just how much of an outcast she is ever since her family drowned. The Traders offer a high price for her to sell them living metal. She decides to sell it to them. When the Traders are trapped by a forest fire, Daja saves them, even though they treated her unfairly. Daja learns to make living metal and realizes who her real family is.
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Summary: Daja's Book
Review: In Daja's book, forest fires threaten them all. Daja learns how to make a new kind of metal called living metal. She meets a Trader for the first time after she became a tragshi. This meeting makes her realize just how much of an outcast she is ever since her family drowned. The Traders offer a high price for her to sell them living metal. She decides to sell it to them. When the Traders are trapped by a forest fire, Daja saves them, even though they treated her unfairly. Daja learns to make living metal and realizes who her real family is.
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Summary: Really Good!
Review: It's a wonderful book, like all of the others, but there is one thing that bothers me. It's actually a bit sexist. Because she portrays Daja as a strong person, in everyway except when she's thinking/talking/eating with Traders! Their the people that CAST HER OUT! I wouldn't be so eagar to go near someone who cast me out of their socitety. It makes me a bit upset. Oh, well, all the other parts are pretty good, except I also think she let down on Niko a bit too.
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Summary: Slow; otherwise, not at all badly written
Review: It's amazing to see how many Pierce fans have popped up over the past six or seven years. I remember when she barely wrote a book-- when the Immortals suddenly appeared so many years after Alanna, my private school practically had a festival. Tamora is a talented writer; in the Circle, she's created spectacular characters, realistic personalities. Like most Pierce fanatics, I'm a sucker for her way of dealing with swashbuckling romance-- and I must say that I haven't held any of her villians as dear as I did Roger (I'm also a sucker for bad guys). It's hard to expect that from the Circle, which is a charming read about the science of magic, not the overzealous use of it against the bad guy. These kids are against the odds of nature-- and realistic aspects of life. Reading the books are like going on vacation; Winding Circle sounds like the Mediterranean (spelling?) to me. Everything seems bright. I still have to find out what happens to Briar, but so far Daja's story, I think, is the best of the series. She makes very powerful desisions within it. But the plot is slow in this series; almost everything is taken day by day, and the parts in Daine's books where she mediated (and I almost snoozed) well, sorry, Tamora, but pretty much half the Circle is written like that. I can't really explain it. But here's a toast, for an otherwise well done young adult book.
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Summary: Too lazy to come up with a title. O_o
Review: Okay, so I've never read this book. However, I do want to say something to that last reviewer who gave it one star. When a charcter is facing a moral dilemma, it is always interesting and never mushy, in my opinion. Even if the decision would be obvious to the reader, the deep emotional turmoil going on inside of the character should make it an interesting read, and if you have any sensitivity whatsoever, it should stir at least some emotions in you. It is this sort of thing that I have always admired Tamora Pierce for, and you should too.
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Summary: The Trangshi
Review: There is a severe forest fire, and there are only a few who can help save the people from the fire and the drought..
As Daja Kisubo, trangshi of the Traders, is working with metal, a stranger enters the forge. This stranger is a Trader. When she discovered that Daja is a trangshi - an outcast - she acts as if she is not there. Anger at her unfair treatment, though it was expected, cause Daja to throw her emotions into bars of metal, which created a living vine, made purely from metal. When the caravan of Traders wish to buy the vine, one must be able to speak to her. The bargaining continues as Daja and her three friends try to stop the forest fire, and the drought. But the forest fire spreads as the caravan is leaving. Will Daja be able to save the Traders?
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Summary: Great!
Review: This book actually might deserve 4 3/4 stars or something along that line. Sure, it was great, but there were times in which putting it down seemed a little easier than in well Briar's Book for example. It's not the best of the CIRCLE series but it was still a work of art. And why is everyone so sure about Briar and Sandry getting together? Don't see any clues myself... I guess you think there can't be a Tamora Pierce book without a romance. Well read it. IT's GREAT!
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Summary: yukkkkkk sonmething went wrong
Review: This book is plain BORING. the whole "should i go back to my family" thing was way too sappy and obvious. DUHHHHHHH Daja has to come back, otherwis there would be no quartet. Tammy, try again. stick with the tortall stuff, no mushy stuff. i had expected better from her. skip this one guyz, briars book is A LOT better.....
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Summary: Not well though through
Review: This has to be one of the most disapointing books the beloved Tamora Pierce has written. I believe the characters where not adhered well enough to the main plot well enough. I don't know, I'm still stuck to Alanna. Well, that's my critics point of view. But anyways, If you're a Tamora Pierce fan, you gotta read this just to keep the "I READ ALL OF TAMORA PIERCE's BOOKS" record.
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