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Title: So You Want to Be a Wizard: The First Book in the Young Wizards Series by Diane Duane ISBN: 0-15-216250-X Publisher: Magic Carpet Books Pub. Date: 01 June, 2001 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.38 (140 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: An epic story in a compact form
Comment: As a young adult librarian, I try to read as many books for that audience as I can. I happened across "So You Want to Be a Wizard" and decided to read it. Being a great fan of fantasy, I am very familiar with the typical epic tale that takes thousands of pages to reach its conclusion. This novel has many of those great epic characteristics (references to creation/creator(s), the choosing of ordinary-seeming young people to be saviors of the universe, the battle between good and evil, etc.), yet manages to tell the complete story in less than 400 pages.
The novel is about two junior high students, Nita and Kit, and what befalls them when they attempt to use their new-found wizard abilities to locate Nita's stolen pen. In the process they meet a white hole, who they nickname Fred (a white hole being the opposite of a black hole - a black hole absorbs things; a white hole emits things). It turns out that Nita's pen is in an alternate New York City, where cars, elevators, door locks, and other mechanical objects are all self-aware - and vicious. The landmarks and buildings of New York City are very integral to the setting of this novel. Natives of the city would really appreciate this.
Despite the inclusion of a universe-threatening battle between good and evil, there is a lot of humor in this book. Fred's difficulties in adapting to the planet earth were particularly amusing. In my opinion this is an excellent fantasy novel. I came to care for the characters very much. Not many novels make me both laugh and cry, but this one did.
Rating: 2
Summary: So You Want to be a Wizard - Diane Duane
Comment: Although the book had a good premise, the writing style was distasteful and Diane Duane seemed uneducated in the literary field. Duane's voice came through strongly, which I appreciated, but her voice was too childlike and did not sound authoritative or explanatory at all. Too much of the book was "filler" - like she was trying to make the book longer than necessary.
Rating: 3
Summary: A GOOD START TO A GREAT SERIES
Comment: This book introduces the two main characters that will stay with this series up to as far as I have read into the series, which is up to book five. The two main wizards are Nita and Kit. The story begins with Nita having a horrible bully problems (she has a big mouth that she can not control). Day Nita is chased into the local library. As she is browsing through the children's section, in order to duck out from the bullies chasing her, she notices a book that she has never seen in the library before. It was titled So You Want to be a Wizard. Nita took the book home and found an oath inside the first few pages of the book. It was the wizard's oath. Nita did not know this when she accepted the oath but when she read it she had sworn herself to the powers and to protect anything worth living. The next day when she awakened Nita took another look into the book, or manual. Nita found a section in the book that supposedly listed some of the "wizards" in the area that she lived in. As she briefly skimmed down the list of names she was abruptly stopped when she had discovered her name in black and white.
Nita was very confused but that was not the weirdest part. All of a sudden Nita could talk to trees. The trees told her about another boy wizard who was using their branches for spells without asking and how it was aggravating the trees. Nita was happy that she would find another wizard but also a little creped out because she was finding this boy wizard from the gossip of a few trees. The boy that was doing the damage was Kit. Kit and Nita become friends realizing how their powers work and how their powers were different. They decide to do a spell together that does not go as plan. They accidentally (if accidentally does exist in wizardry) braught something into earth that was not suppose to be there. This is the part of the book where it gets a little scientific and theoretical, but from what I can remember what they brought was either a white black whole or a special type of star. Now I know what you are thinking that if you bring something in with that much gravity you got problems but it was not exactly like that. After the spell was over they saw the being in a true form. All it was a small floating light that communicated with people through thought and the speech. The speech is a wizard type language that all complex enough living things and non-living things speak. That is Nita can talk to trees as well as other things. Anyway the reason Fed, as they call their new outer planet friend, does not have a gravity problem is that it has all that energy and gravity stored in other places. The duos eventually bite off almost more than they can chew. They enter an alternate New York City where the things are just evil. Especially the things that are not living. The Lone Power created this world. The Lone Power is the very thing that created death in the beginning of time. He is the wizards' worst enemy.
The book has an interesting ending that I do not want to ruin for you. In my opinion I would recommend this series of books to anyone but I do have to warn you the first series, which is the one I am writing about, is a little.... well...slow no that is not it...it is.... boring at times. Ya that is the right answer. Hope you like the book and/or series.
P.S. Dian Duane, the author of this book, is a great author.
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Title: Deep Wizardry: The Second Book in the Young Wizards Series by Diane Duane ISBN: 0152162577 Publisher: Magic Carpet Books Pub. Date: 01 June, 2001 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
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Title: High Wizardry: The Third Book in the Young Wizards Series by Diane Duane ISBN: 0152162445 Publisher: Magic Carpet Books Pub. Date: 01 June, 2001 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
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Title: A Wizard Abroad: The Fourth Book in the Young Wizards Series by Diane Duane ISBN: 0152162380 Publisher: Magic Carpet Books Pub. Date: 01 June, 2001 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
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Title: The Wizard's Dilemma: The Fifth Book in the Young Wizards Series by Diane Duane ISBN: 0152024603 Publisher: Magic Carpet Books Pub. Date: 01 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
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Title: A Wizard Alone: The Sixth Book in the Young Wizards Series by Diane Duane ISBN: 0152049118 Publisher: Magic Carpet Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
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