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Summary: Magic Steps
Review: Really good book, maybe a little bloody, but I liked it alot. I'd recemend it to ages 13 and up.
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Summary: Magic Steps
Review: Magic Steps is a good book, and a wonderful start for the series "The Circle Opens". However, the events repeat a little bit, making it somewhat boring at times. Still, other parts of the book (including almost the whole book!)are exciting, suspenseful, and make you feel like you'll burst open if you dont find out what happens next...a good book for about 10 and up. I hope this will help anyone who is looking for some book to read...Enjoy!
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Summary: Good enough, though not the best of Pierce's work
Review: For all readers who enjoyed Tamora Pierce's four books in the Circle of Magic quartet, MAGIC STEPS gives an opportunity to read more about the unusual mages Sandy, Tris, Daja, and Briar. Though the Circle of Magic and the Circle Opens quartets are supposedly geared for younger audiences than Pierce's Tortall books, MAGIC STEPS gives hints that this may not remain the case.After coming across a boy-mage just a few years younger than herself, Sandry, thread-mage of Winding Circle, learns that as the discoverer of the boy's power she is responsible for making sure he learns the basics of its use. Her instruction of the boy Pasco, however, takes on more importance when members of a prominent family in the city begin to be brutally murdered. Despite the open attacks which take place with growing frequency and brutality, the killers continue to escape until only a combination of Sandry and Pasco's powers will bring the horror to an end. Fans of Tamora Pierce everywhere will probably enjoy this book, as well as those that follow it. I myself have read it about two times, and was thouroughly engrossed both times. I happen to think that the usual Tamora Pierce magic is somewhat lacking in this first book of the Circle Opens quartet, but it remains yet another enjoyable read by one of my favourite authors.
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Summary: An excellent start to a promising new series...
Review: In this sequel to the excellent Circle of Magic series, four years have passed since her previous adventures, and a now teenaged Sandry has graduated to magehood and returned to the side of her ailing uncle. What she doesn't expect however, is to find another young mage hopeful, posessing a highly unusual form of magic. And as if that wasn't enough, to then be told by the mage council that, since there are no readily available teachers possesing this boy's unique form of magic, she herself must become young Pasco Acalon's teacher. This book promises excellent character development, a strong engaging plot, and plenty of action scenes. However, those of you hoping for more of the hilarious interactions between Sandry and her other young mage partners will be dissapointed; Daja, Tris, and Briar are completely absent here. Even so, this book's good points definitely outweigh it's one complaint; Pasco is a likable, charming character who reminded me pleasantly (though not reduntantly) of Briar. Anyone who loved the Circle of Magic series should check this series out.
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Summary: Excellent!
Review: Sandry is helping her uncle recover from a heart attack when she witnesses a boy dancing magic. As there are no dancing mages in the area, Sandry is forced to teach her reluctant student.
Meanwhile, someone is murdering people and not leaving a trail behind, because they have in their power a mage with the strangest sort of magic: "unmagic", the ability to reduce magic to nothing. It's up to Sandry and her student, Pasco, to capture the murderers. Will the succeed - and will they even live to try?
This book is MUCH better than the first quartet. It has a lot more action and gore in it, too. However, Tris, Daja, and Briar are NEVER seen or heard, only mentioned briefly.
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Summary: 4 stars up
Review: This book is really good but I would not let your kids read it until you have read. This book is a bit more detialed with blood and stuff. This would be 5 stars but for that fact. My parents would not let me read this right away. I can't wait to read the third book. This book is about Sandry and pasco. Pasco is a young boy who has dance magic. There has been killings going but the only proof is unmagic....
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Summary: Sandry is alooone...
Review: The best aspect of this book, I would say, is the plot. It's dramatic, exciting, and pulls no punches, especially at the end. My main gripe with this was that I missed Briar, Daja and Tris - one of the most interesting bits of the original CoM series was the interaction between the four very different children. Pasco was an average character, but didn't interest me as much as Briar does. This is one of the best Tamora books for action, but if you want character, you might want to try something else.
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Summary: T. Pierce; y? Ur first few books series started out GREAT...
Review: the Magic Circle series is a must-read. Your probably thinking this book in the Circle Opens series will be even better; uh... WRONG! The only characters it stars are Sandry (one of the earlier four mages), Pasco (the dance mage, who can make magic do things by dancing, and who also- at least I think- has a crush on Sandry), and the "bad guy" of the story, who makes the story gory, because she murders a whole family. It's not exciting at all. I love to read, and it's a really bad insult to be called "boring" in my standards; it doesn't even TALK about Briar, Trish, Daja, or their teachers (which I think [is bad]). I would prefer "The Hobbit", and "Lord of the Rings, The Fellowship of the Rings", for people who like tamora pierce's first few book series. The immortals series would be reccomended in this situation; except for the fourth book, where Daine(a sixten yr old girl with magic that includes everything to do with animals) falls in love with her 40 yr old teacher.
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Summary: The Circle Opens
Review: This is an exciting and fast-paced book set in the province Emelan, where Sandry now lives with her great-uncle Duke Vedris. She meets Pasco Acalon, a boy who can dance magic. But unfortunately, Pasco's family do not approve of this branch of magic and it is up to Sandry to teach him. They end up fighting the Dihanurs, who are trying to kill Duke Vedris and all Rokats in Summersea. Sandry weaves a magical web and Pasco has to use his powerful dance magic.....
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Summary: Read this BOOK!
Review: This book after reading the Circle of Magic books was really good. I really wanted to find out to Sandry, Briar, Tris, and Daja. This one is about only Sandry and she is now a working mage. She one day discovers a boy dancing and she can sense is magic. Later on she finds he can do magic by dancing which is pretty scary because what if you take a wrong step, so this is what they have to figure out. Sandry cannot find another dance magic mage so she has to teach him herself. She teaches him meditating but she can't teach him dance. So, she finds the best dancer in town and the dancer teaches him dances which mean something and they really do make "the sun rise" and other things like that. This was a great book and the first in the new series of Tamora Pierce.
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