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Summary: I LOVE THIS BOOK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: This book is by far the best in the Wizardry Series (I haven't read the 5th one yet....). It's easier to read, and it's just....I don't know how to explain it. Diane's talent in imagery really shows here. An excerpt from the book "...all around them the silence began to sing with an in-tuned power; the air shimmered and rang with a force like a gong ringing backward, soft at first, then louder, though without a sound, without breaking that silence- a hiss, a murmur, an outcry of something about to happen, a shout of inner voices, a silent thunderclap. And the last not-sound, so loud it unmade the world around them and struck them deaf and blind-". Her talent continues on throughout the book, indeed, the series. I am in awe of her ability.Read this PLEASE. Reviewers state that it isn't as good as the first; I say that it's much better! I love this book; I'd rescue it from a burning building.... Oh, and I LOVE Ed. He's great!
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Summary: Awesome
Review: This book is very interesting. I love how you meet the characters again and there is an even bigger plot and more magic then in the last book.
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Summary: Have fun! **Spoilers**
Review: This is an enchanting tale of Nita and her friend Kit, two underage wizards who end up "on duty" fighting the evil Lone Power when they go on vacation with Nita's family. In their previous adventures, Nita and Kit incurred a blank check debt to the powers they serve. Now, the debt is being called in. The whale wizard S'ree has asked Nita to fill in and play one of the participants in an ancient ritual to bind the Lone Power's growing influence in the area. But Nita agrees without knowing the very dear price she would have to pay for success, or how much her and Kit's special wizardy may influence the outcome. The ups? Duane has done her research and describes what, to me, seems like a pretty realistic seascape backdrop to frame the rest of the story. She also creates a pretty credible evil force to fight against, not to mention a situation that elicited a few tears (okay, more than a few) from me. Nita's predicament is handled in, what seems to me, a fairly realistic manner. I especially liked the way her advisor, Tom, handled it. Complications? Ms. Duane seems to ramble on occasion, and Nita's parents seemed pretty flat at times. I wonder if showing them some wizardry could truly convince them to accept Nita's role in saving the world. As for larger concerns, I found the plot fairly predictable, which may not be so bad in some ways. It says something about her ability to manage details and hint at what's to come. I guessed a decent amount of the plot, including Ed's role in resolving Nita's dilemma. I wondered if (or how) being spared changed Nita's perspective. Any answers in the next book?
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Summary: Good,but not as good as the first book.
Review: I thought this book was great but not as good as "so you want to be a wizard".The way undersea things,being a whale and the names were described was pretty cool and so were the caracters but this book did not keep me as enthralled as the last one. In this book Nita is on vacation with her family and her partner Kit.But it soon prooves to not be a very restfull holiday since she gets caught up in the song of the twelve,a reenacment of the time when the lone power came to the sea to bring death to it and Nita is playing the most important part:the silent one,the part of the one who saved the sea and she soon wants to back out for a very good reason(wich I am not going to tell you)but if she does what happened to Atlantis will hapen to New York.
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Summary: High magic down below
Review: When Nita and Kit, the junior wizard heroes of Duane's Wizardry series, agree to help a whale wizard perform a scared ritual song, little do they realise the danger they are putting themselves in, especially Nita, who is blind to the sacrafice that is to be asked of her. This delightful underseas adventure is a joy to read, filled with intelligence and a surprisingly mature approach for the target age group, as Duane deals with the consequences of Nita's choice, her dealling with her parents upon their discovering she is a wizard, and, best of all, Nita's unexpected friendship with Ed the Master-Shark, a cold but noble force of nature whose duty is to devour Nita at the end of the ritual. A delight.
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Summary: A great book, though not as good as the first one
Review: I didn't think that this book was as good as the first one, since it had a bit of a slower pace, though it was a good book and a nice edition to the series. In this book, Kit and Nita go on a vacation to somewhere with an ocean, and discover some whale wizards who need their help to defeat the Lone Power. Kit and Nita try to help them, while avoiding suspicians from Nita's parents and her irritating little sister Dairine. All in all, this book had a great plot with excelant characters and a really cool villian. Anyone who likes modernized fantasy would probably like this series, though it would be best for kids 10 and up.
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Summary: Deep Wizardry
Review: Deep Wizardry is the second book of Diane Duane's "Wizardry" series. It is an action-packed adventure book with many twists and turns. This was a great book, and I'd recommend it to anybody who has also read Book One, "So You Want to be a Wizard". It really helps to read the first book, and I'd also suggest reading Book Three, "High Wizardry". I enjoyed this book even though I was reading it for a book report.
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Summary: This is Great!
Review: I've always been into the "magic" kind of theme in reading, and so when I picked up this book a few years ago, it was just another book to me, but when I finally got into it, I was shocked. This really is one of the best fantasies out there. You don't need to have read "So You Want to Be a Wizard" to understand it, but I would highly recomend all the books in the series. In "Deep Wizardry", the book starts out on a Long Island Beach in New York with a girl named Juanita, or Nita as she prefers, just going out for a walk on the beach with her dog. Just a few pages into it, you discover that she and Kit (Christopher) are wizards, and have the ability to do some great stuff. They're only 12-13, but you find out that the two have made some pretty impressive accomplishments already, and now, it's up to them to save the world (sorry for the cliche). With some help from a few friendly and a few not-so friendly sea creatures, you're led deep under the sea, where magic that's older than time itself sings it's ancient song. In the end, there's a great final climax with a twist, and Nita and Kit almost don't make it out alive.
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Summary: Nita's Secret
Review: DEEP WIZARDRY is the second book in a magical series by Diane Duane. It all starts when Nita and her family arrive at their beach house for a vacation. Before they left, she begged her pareents to invite her best friennd, Kit, to come along too. Unknown to their parents, Nita and Kit are wisards. One day they were trying out a new spell where they can walk on water, and they met a dolphin. The dolphin wanted them to help his friend S'ree, a whale, who was attacked by whale hunters earlier. Nita helped S'ree and found that she had a very hard decision to make. "Will you play the Silent One?" S'ree asked. Nita said, "Yes," knowing only that it was part of a song that was made to reenact the origional singing of the twelve and the restraint of the Lone Power, Death. She does not know what the silent one does, but she will find out. I would definately recommend this book to anyone who enjoys reading about magic and suspense. I loved it cover to cover because it has a lot of details, but lets you make some of it up on your own. The characters are my age, so I can easily relate with them. It is not quite as classy as books like the Narnia series, but it has a more intricate plot, and I liked it a little more.
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Summary: One of her best wizardry books
Review: I think this is one of the best books she has written. All of her wizardry books are fab. I hope she writes more. I think that all her books should get 5 stars and 2 thumbs up, and mabye even better!
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