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Summary: Street Magic Review
Review: In a mystic and adventurous world of Tamora Pierce's second book in The Circle Opens quartet, Street Magic, there are magic, mages, and harsh reality. Fourteen-year-old Briar Moss, the name he created himself, was a plant mage, and he is currently in Chammur with his teacher, Rosethorn, on a sort of "working study program." While meandering through the market, he bumped into Evvy, her full name Evumeimei Dingzai, who unconsciously used her stone magic while polishing rocks. Unfortunately, Chammur is like any other place in the world; there are rich moneybags and beggars, or better known as thukdaks. Evvy was sold by her parents and escaped as a runaway slave. She was earning a living by getting a few coppers for polishing various stones. Noting her magical abilities, Briar tried to talk to her, but Evvy scurried away after he mentioned her stone magic.
Briar was determined to find her a suitable mage teacher, though things are never so easy. Just like the real world, there are gangs. But there is one specific gang, the Vipers, who wanted Evvy, an extremely powerful stone mage, to help them to find precious rocks and make the gang rich. To make matters worse, there was also a
takameri, the Chammuran way of saying rich female, who had nothing to occupy herself with, in the picture; she decided to invest in the Vipers so they could be the strongest gang in the city. And she wanted Evvy to be able to aid them.
However, Briar found it difficult to put the past behind him. Before someone had discovered that he was a mage, Briar had fought, bled, and almost died for his gang. Now, he struggled to balance his current life and his "former life as a street rat" so he can help Evvy the way someone had helped him when he first learned he was a mage.
I simply love this book; Tamora Pierce sweeps you into another world, similar yet more interesting than the one we live in now. Street Magic is a book worth reading and "among the best in fantasy fiction." It is one of those books that you cannot put it down once you start reading. Pierce has also written several exciting prequels, the Circle of Magic quartet- Sandry's Book, Tris's Book, Daja's Book, Briar's Book- and the first book of the Circle Opens quartet- Magic Steps. In addition, she has finished two thrilling sequels of the same quartet, Cold Fire and Shatterglass.
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Summary: Too good for a library book
Review: (see title) I got this book from my local library and I just HAVE TO buy it now- I hope the others in this series are just as good (our library doesn't have all of them (I think))
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Summary: Great Companion to Magic Steps!
Review: A wonderful book. Briar notices a street urchin who seems to have stone magic. She can make stones have more magical potential, and therefore, make them sell better. Briar has to teach her or find a teacher for her before her power goes out of control. The only problem is that the only mason mage in Evvy's home city is unwilling to teach her. He doesn't like the idea of having competition. Anyway, Evvy doesn't want to learn from him. Briar has to use his power as a mage to help her and the city around her before it's too late.
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Summary: The best action-filled book I have ever read! I luved it!!!!
Review: Another episode of Briar Moss, the 14 year-old plant mage, and his teacher Rosethorn, a famous dedicate-plant mage from Winding Circle. In the book, Briar and Rosethorn have traveled to the distant land of Chammur in order to help the farmers with their dying land and to stock up the earth temples w/ medicines and supplies.~~While walking in the Grand Bazaar, Briar comes across a young orphan named Evvy, who was using powerful magic to polish stones and jewels. She needs a teacher: so Briar decides to teach Evvy as best as he could since the only other stone mage in town has refused to. ~~In the streets, the gang called the Vipers, with the help of their rich Lady leader, have been growing stronger by recruiting more kids and they plan to kidnap Evvy, so they can have a stone mage to search out precious gems in their roberies. Briar tries his best to protect her, but when he is lured into a trap the Vipers catch her! Can Briar save Evvy before she is forced to help the Vipers steal or before the Lady does what she has done to all the other members who have not complied w/ her wishes????? Read and find out~~~you'll be totally amazed!!!It will have you dying w/ suspense!!! READ IT!!!
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Summary: Mages are Wanted
Review: At first,I hadn't read any books from this series. I just didn't think that they would be good. Then, I thought how good all the other series by Tamora Pierce were. I read the first book in this series, and I liked it. I then decided to read this book. It starts out with Briar, and Rosethorn, both plant mages are living in Chammur. Briar is walking by a booth, where he sees a girl using magic to polish stones named Evvy. Briar is a friend of one of the gangs, the camelguts. There is another gang called the vipers. The vipers are sponsored by a rich woman. She and the vipers want to get Evvy, because they know that she has stone magic and because of that she could lead them to treasure. The vipers also get in a fight with the camelguts. I won't tell you any more, because I don't want to give the story away. I strongly suggest this book.
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Summary: Wonderful!
Review: Briar and Rosethorn are in the city of Chammur,in Briar's old home land of Sotat.One day in the market he sees Evvy,a "street rat"polishing stones for a merchant.Briar can see that she has stone magic,and resolves to track her down and find a teacher for her .This means getting her to trust him.Meanwhile Briar is caught up in gang warfare,even though he promised not to go back to his old way of life.One of the gangs wants Evvy to join them,so she can track down hidden jewels for them.In the end he must choose between what he thinks he needs to,and what he knows he has do.This book opeons up a completely different side of Briar not seen in the previous one.
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Summary: A Great Book
Review: Briar and Rosethorn are traveling when Briar sees a girl named Evey polishing a stone with magic. He learns he has to teach her magic because he was the one who found her. She eventualy agrees to have lessons with him. A gang , the Vipers,cause problems for them. The Vipers are a pet gang of a noble lady. They want Evey so they can find jewels easier with her stone magic. The Vipers also are fighting with another gang. Briar and Evey are caught in the crossfire as the Vipers try to get Evey again and again. (I won't tell you more because I'd spoil the ending) This book is filled with surprieses all the way through. It is is as good as the first one! You will want to keep reading untill the end. This is right up there with Alanna and Daine>
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Summary: Brair's New Tale
Review: Briar doesn't want to get involved in gangs again, since he has his magic now he doesn't think he needs one. And the last thing he wants is the responsibility of having a mage students but unfortunately when he and Rosethorn travel to Chammeur he gets involved in both of those things. Here he meets Evvy a young girl on the streets who has a strange connection with the stones he polishes. He can tell right away that she's a mage, but she doesn't even want to talk to him. He soon realizes that if someone doesn't teach her about her magic, horrible things could happen. And if he doesn't find a stone mage he might have to be that teacher.But Briar has another bigger more complicated problem to deal with. A gang war is started in Chammeur but not one that Briar is used to. A gang called the Vipers is taking over the city in a very dirty way. And because of Briar's knowledge of medicine he is called in to attend to the wounded victims. Soon he becomes too involved with this war and things get very dangerous when the Vipers set their eyes upon Evvy. I was ecstatic to learn that Briar had a book in the series. Next to Tris, Briar is my favorite character. And in this book he shows the world that he's just as powerful of a mage without his "foster sisters."...
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Summary: REALLY REALLY GOOD!
Review: Briar is staying in an arab-like town with his teacher, Rosethorn. He discovers a young street girl who is a powerful stone mage, and as the mage who discovered her, he has to teach her.
However, a gang is taking over the citywith the help of a wealthy sponser, and wants to use Briar's student.
MUCH better than all the others.
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Summary: Here we go, one more time...
Review: Briar Moss finds a girl with stone-magic. Just like how sandry found a dude with dance-magic. Same sorta thing happens. He finds her, becomes her friend, and teaches her magic. There's sort of a side plot where Briar has to deal with the street rat side of him that he thought he had left behind. It's a good book, I can't wait for the other two books in this series. You don't have to read the five before this one, in order to get the plot. It helps, because you know the characters, but it doesn't really matter.
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