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]

The cat books are out of print, sadly, but they're not hard to track down.

In print, maybe, but I just bought two copies for my Kindle off of Amazon, like, a week ago.

But maybe they just went back into print - there's a reason I didn't have them yet on Kindle.

[independence1776]

I'd love it if they were back in print! But I can't find out one way or the other and looking at the prices on Amazon, I suspect not. I know DD said on her ebook site that she was trying to revert the ebook rights to herself, so maybe that's what finally happened.

[conuly]

That makes sense.