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Summary: The Magician's Ward
Review: Sequel to 'Mairelon the Magician', this book takes place not much later. Kim has become ward to 'Mairelon', whose real name I can't recall. Kim has a magic talent, so Mairelon is teaching he magic - and the proper way of speaking. But Kim just isn't cut out to be a lady, though that's what Mairelon's mother wishes her to be.
And along with these troubles, there is more mischief stirring up around Kim and Mairelon.
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Summary: Kim grows up
Review: This is a sequel to Mairelon The Magician. I liked the first one better.The plot in The Magician's Ward is something of an afterthought. Someone is somehow absorbing the magic of wizards, including Mairelon. Kim has to solve the mystery, and use her expanding magical powers. Not very exciting, actually. More important to the book is Kim's response to joining London Society, becoming 19, and realizing (surprise! -- well, not really) that she is in love with Mairelon. The problem with that (for me) is that he is her legal guardian, her magical tutor, and apparently about 10-12 years older than her. None of which are actual problems in 19th century London, but they seem strange in a book written for modern young adult readers. In today's world this would be a tabloid-TV scandal, not an admired romance. Like the first Mairelon book, I think the novel would have worked much better if it had been out-and-out written for an adult audience. My sense of these novels is that Wrede was trying to cram an adult romance into a young adult format.
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Summary: The Magician's Ward
Review: This is the sequel to the (fantastic) book: Mairelon The Magician
I thought this was a very good book, and recommend it to all those who love fantasy books.
It's really funny, the plot's great, and I loved it.
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