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Summary: Yet another excellent addition to the series!
Review: After Winding Circle got rid of the pirates, the four young mages, their teachers, and Duke Vedris (Sandry's uncle), are headed to Gold Ridge. A drought in this part of the country has caused many problems, and grassfires are now burning constantly. While they are there, Daja has been assigned to make nails. However, something goes wrong and she accidentally creates a magical iron vine that grows just like a normal plant. Upon seeing such a creation, one of the Traders wants to buy it off Daja, yet this Trader refuses to speak to Daja because she is Trangshi. During her encounters with Traders at Gold Ridge, Daja starts to yearn for the life she used to have. Finally, she is given a choice: she must either return to Winding Circle with her "new" family, or stay with the Traders. This book is a very good read and definitely has a lot of action going on. However, I didn't like it as much as Tris's Book because I found some passages about magic confusing. Overall though, I think it is a great read and we get to know more about each character's personality, especially the teachers.
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Summary: Excellent!
Review: Although I did not consider Daja's book the best of the Circle of Magic series, nor Daja my favorite of the four charachters; I think Tamora Pierce made a masterpiece when she wrote this book. She creates a whole new world and culture with its own beliefs and way of living, not to mention a whole new language. A culture that has been stereotyped and abused but ignores the outside torment and stick to there beliefs, because the opinion of a kaq means nothing. It also shows you Daja's life before coming to Winding Circle. In Sandry's Book you have a clear picture of both Sandry's and Briar's backround but neither Tris nor Daja (until now) have shown their earlier life. In a way this book, of all four in the series lives up to its title. This book is almost completely about Daja.
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Summary: This is a fairly good book...
Review: Daja's Book is about a girl, named Daja, who goes with her three mage friends and her teacher, Rosethorn, to try and help stop fires from spreading throughout the cities. This is the first time Daja ever comes to dislike fires, for she works with it (Daja is a metal-worker). While she is working with fire and trying to stop fire at the same time, Daja discovers a living metal vine. Then, some Traders come through the cities, and they bring back memories, for she used to be one herself. She is stuck deciding if she should continue on with her mage friends, or go with the Traders. I would rate this book with four stars out of five, because I think that Tamora Pierce's other series are better than the Circle of Magic Series (including Daja's Book). Some of the events that happen in this book are a bit disappointing once you get to the end, and, unlike her other series, I don't think there is not as much adventure. Like her other books, though, there are good details, but perhaps a little too much, which makes it a tad more dull than the others. For example, on page 52, it says, "The lady wore a cloth-of-gold overrobe and a brown silk undergown with gold embroideries, both of which complimented her dark brown skin perfectly. The gold band on her brown, frizzy hair tilted up a little like a tiara and sparkled with emeralds; black pearls hung around her neck in three strand..." And so it continues. This is very good describing, but I think it is just a little too much than you need. Other than that, if you have read all of Tamora Pierce's books, except for the Circle of Magic books, I'm not trying to stop you from reading any four of them, they are all good, otherwise I wouldn't have given Daja's Book four stars. Tamora Pierce is a great writer, and you should definitely consider reading one of her books, for she has several series out with four books in each series. (I had to do this for an 11th grade school project, that's why I wrote so much!)
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Summary: Its pretty good...
Review: Daja's book, by Tamora Peirce, is a series of three books. The other two books to this series are Sandry's Book and Tris's Book. Daja's Book is made for intermediate readers due to magic phrases and terms, which are sometimes hard to understand. This is a story about Daja, her friends, and teachers going to a town to help out. With Daja and her two friends having problems with their magic and the forest fire nearby, they have a handful to deal with. That handful might be just too much for the three teens. Fires blare across the lands and inch closer to what three young teens learn to call home. Droughts cover the land, but yet a glacier, with running water underneath, still thrives close by. How can that be in the magic world? Daja, Tris and Briar, three young teens who are still awaiting their almighty purpose in life, are looking to help out. Their magic, yet separate, works as one. The novel walks the reader through their assignment of helping a village, that for the time being, they learn to call home. The want to go to their real home thrives hard, but the need to help still overpowers.
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Summary: Circle of Magic #3- Daja's Book
Review: Excellent! Not entirely as good as the previous books, but still a good read. I definetely recommend this to anyone who likes Pierce's work or just wants a good book to sit back and read. Very nice!
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Summary: Poor Briar!
Review: I know this book is supposed to be about Daja but i cant get my head around what Rosethorn did to Briar. It was truly horrible. This book was just as good as all the others in thew Com series inspite of Dajas dullness and the whole Trader thing was relly touching. I would really love there to be a romance between Briar and Sandry but its not going to happen beacause Briar is totally in Love With Rosethorn. These books are all really really good.
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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: 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: Not too impressed so far...
Review: This is my first book from this author, and I don't know why, but I just didn't like it. I thought that there really wasn't a good "struggle" in this book, the writing was not as descriptive as other authors' writing, and the characters did not seem as developed. Just an opinion.
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