So You Want to Be a Wizard

[lunabee34]

So You Want to Be a Wizard by Diane Duane

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


This was wonderful! It's YA, and on the younger side of YA, but such a fun read. It follows Nita and Kit who both find books about becoming wizards and choose to take the oath. They meet a white hole and senior level wizards and become responsible for the fate of the whole universe along the way.

The magic is really cool here--based on the Speech, on knowing something truly by saying it truly. It also features sentient trees and mechanical objects and some really cool magic involving time.

I don't want to spoil the ending, so I won't say what happens to make me cry, but I was surprised how moved I was by the ending. Full on sniffling. :)

Definitely recommend this one; I think it's the start of a series as well.



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Comments

[conuly]

Oh, you haven't read it before? How wonderful to discover it for new! In addition to the main series, there's also two books focused on cats - Book of Night with Moon, and To Visit the Queen.

If you decide to read the rest of the series, be absolutely sure you get the updated versions. One of them features an autistic character. When autistic readers wrote to her and criticized his portrayal, she took their complaints seriously and made dramatic revisions to the book. This, like, never happens.

[lunabee34]

Yes! My dear friend kaleecat gave me a huge bag of books this summer, and this one was in there.

Oh, wow. That makes me respect DD even more. What a wonderful thing to be so receptive to feedback. Good for her.