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Summary: A wonderful, original book
Review: I love that this book doesn't take place in a far-off galaxy, like most other fantasy books, but in modern day New York. The characters get transported from there to their adventure.....I'm not going to say anything else, read it yourself! This series does not keep switching 'bad guys', which I like because you begin to hate the bad guys more when they've been around a while. I think the second book in this series is the best, but I really like the end of this book. Read it!
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Summary: Hoo Boy
Review: Diane Duane continuously out does herself in the wizard books!Read them, they will suspend ur belief. You will believe that carswalk, trees talk, and wizards really do exist. An excellent masterpiece for ANY one who likes fantasy!
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Summary: Wonderful books
Review: I'm so glad to see these books getting the attention they deserve. I first read this book when I was fourteen; I'm twenty-eight now and I still love them. Go ahead and buy all of them, they are definitely worth it, although in my opinion, #2 is the best. Duane is a wonderful author, her writing and characters are excellent and her worlds are very well constructed.
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Summary: So You Want to be a Wizard
Review: This book is excellant! Nita and Kit take an oath and become wizards. The book tells the story of how two children find out what being a wizard is like. Nita lost her space pen so the two wizards concoct a spell to bring it back, but end up finding a white hole! Fred, the white hole, becomes their friend. Kit and Nita get trapped in a world of darkness and danger. Read this book to find out what happens to these wizards.
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Summary: Great book!
Review: This is one of my all-time favorite children's books! The first of a series (4 so far) this and the second (Deep Wizardry) are very good. The characters feel like friends--people with problems just like me. I think the conflict between good and evil is very well done. This isn't a cookie-cutter fantasy, although it does have most of the elements. You'll enjoy it! Word of warning: The first 2 are the best, #3 is very good and #4 (in my opinion) just doesn't quite match up.
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Summary: A very exciting book for young readers who dig magic
Review: I've just been reading So You Want to Be A Wizard. Amazing! It is a good book for a Harry Potter fan waiting for the fourth book. It has a different style, though: if in Harry Potter, the girls are witches and the boys wizards, why aren't they warlocks? And why is Nita a wizard? This is a great book, I recommend to anyone.
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Summary: Amazing! I'm hooked!
Review: I admit that the book has a bit of a slow beginning, but once you get into it you can't stop! It is absolutely amazing! I went out and bought the next two in the series. Diane Duane has original ideas, not just plain old point your finger and magic happens. Definetely get this book if you are a fan of fantasy or science fiction! I also recommend the second book in the series, Deep Wizardry, which could almost be considered even better! But read this first, an extremely wonderful book.
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Summary: Wow.
Review: So You Want to Be a Wizard is the book that the first of the Harry Potter's books really wanted to be, and almost became. While tapping into the universal desire to be somebody Great and Important, the Duane book does it in a way that is identifiable not just by but with every child who has felt like an outsider. (Which is to say: with every child.)Oh, stop reading these reviews and just order the book. It's that good.
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Summary: A Little Slow, but Worth the Wait
Review: When I first read this book, I couldn't quite catch onto it. Since the wizardry in the book took a scientific approach, with formualas and the like, I had a hard time latching onto the storyline. Once the characters got rolling and begin working as wizards and begin their Ordeal, the action picked up and I got me interested. I would not recommend this book for anyone younger than, say, eleven. Not because of subject matter, but because I don't think the attention span would last long enough to survive the slow-paced beginning. If you do really like this book, there are three sequals in which the action is constant and you don't have to drudge your way through explanations.
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Summary: excellent fantasy
Review: Well-plotted and with likeable characters, falls into the great tradition of "ordinary kids in the real world suddenly enounter magic" exemplified by Nesbit, Eager, and Cooper. In this case, Nita and Kit must *learn* to use their magic -- it doesn't come free -- which makes the story seem even more real. This whole series, and the following one centered on cats who are also wizards, is a good way to bridge from kids' magic stories to adult fantasy.
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