Magic Steps (The Circle Opens, Book 1)

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Summary: Magic Steps
Review: This book is the first book in Tamora Pierce's quartet called The Circle Opens. In this book, Sandry discovers a Pasco, a dance mage. To Sandry's dismay, she finds that she must teach Pasco to controll and use his magic. At the same time, Sandry's uncle has to find a murderer who is killing all the merchants in the Rokat line. The murders happen before people's very eyes, but no one has seen the killer because the killers have a mage who can reduce ecsense to nothingness. Sandry realizes that with Pasco's dancing magic, she could help to catch the killers.

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Summary: Excellent...almost as good as Street Magic
Review: I liked this book a lot, but, now that I think of it, this entire series is a lot darker than most of T.P.'s other series. But I kinda liked what they did with Sandry in this, although I wish she'd kept her old bedroom. Pasco is an irritating but believable character, and I like the idea of dancing magic. I also liked the investigation and the duke and....just about all the interaction. I kinda hated the ending, though. Not that there could have been much of a different end, though. But the beginning was worse...it was kinda slow.