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Title: Deep Wizardry: The Second Book in the Young Wizards Series by Diane Duane ISBN: 0-15-216257-7 Publisher: Magic Carpet Books Pub. Date: 01 June, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.75 (53 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Literally Deep
Comment: As the second book in Diane Duane's wizardry series, Deep Wizardry emphasizes the pwer of friendship. Duane does an excellent job of demonstrating a theme of the need for friends and family while keeping the suspense throughout the climax. Nita and KIt are at the beach with Nita's family when they are called into action as wizards. Befirending a whale, a dolphin, and a big shark named Ed would never seem like a possibility. What is more unbelievable to the reader, is how human-like the animales are. Nita will undergo a struggle trying to keep their wizardry away from those who love her. Nita and Kit prepared for the "Song of Twelve," without first knowing the consequences. Many important things in life are needed for success.
Through their wizardry, Nita and Kit have become close friends. They decide that they are in it together, but they don't realize how deep that goes. On a supposed vacation they find themselves 'on active status.' Probably the first time they realize that they are always on duty. Going out into the ocean to help the whale wizards is a danger they deicide to risk. Kit and Nita realize the real bond between them when each begins to worry about the other.
Along the way, Kit and Nita meet a few interesting people, or should I say animals?! Duane exercises anthropomorphism, and attributes human characteristics to animals. A whale named S'reee becomes a motherly figure, she is a strong and fearless leader despite her young age. Hotshot, a dolphin, is just that! He is like many humans who like to show off. The big threat is a great white shark named Ed, or that's what they call the 'Pale Slayer.' Nita learns to respect Ed as the young respect the elder, but the real surprise is when Ed begins to respect Nita. They even become friends.
In wizardry you need the support of your family and those who love you, just as in life. Nita and Kit, however, try to keep their wizardry a secret from Nita's family. The big problem with this, it not their curiosity of Nita and Kit's absence but the need for their support. Eventually, Nita and Kit explain their situation and are filled with the love and compassion they need to endure it.
During the "Song of Twelve," comes the true test of sacrifice. Who is willing to give up their life for others? Who will rescue those in danger? Sometimes it's hard to have faith and trust that everything will work out. True friends are separated from the phony in the face of danger, and Nita figures that out. If becoming a whale isn't bad enough, taking the responsibilities of one is worse. The denouement or conclusion of the story was well written by Duane. Something we didn't expect came out of the friendships that Nita formed.
In conclusion, the themes that Duane wanted to make evident are seen not only in the book, but in everyday life. Nita needs the support of her family and close friends to have faith that her sacrifice will bring good. It is important for Nita to stick to her word even though she didn't know what she was agreeing to. Without love and companionship, it is hard to have trust. Without doubt and fear, it is hard to call something a sacrifice. Mostly, without teamwork, you can't have success.
Rating: 5
Summary: Fascinating characters and relationships
Comment: This is the best of the three initial books in Duane's Wizardry series. There is plenty of thrilling action, the ethics and philosophy of wizarding is intelligently extended beyond its presentation in the first book, and Nita's evolving relationship with her family is well woven into the story of cetacean wizards and their battle with the Lone Power. The author also brings vividly to life the sights, sounds and sensations of the deep sea.
Still, the characters stand out over and above the merits of the other aspects of the book. The parents and adult characters are sympathetic and believable, Nita's little sister Dairine shows up in a new light, and even the dog has a personality!
Each undersea character - whale-wizards, mostly - has a distinctive personality and tone well matching his/her species and history. The crowning achievement of the book is Ed'Rashtekaresket (Ed for short) the Master-Shark, whose very name has teeth in it. His dark, complex and fascinating character is gradually revealed through his developing relationship with Nita - as she realizes, and comes to terms with, the implications of the parts the two of them will sing at the TwelveSong Ceremony.
The book should appeal to adults as well as to the ten-to-teens age group to whom the book is marketed.
Rating: 5
Summary: Even better than the first! Finest YA fantasy around!
Comment: The first book in the "Young Wizards" series, _So You Want to Be a Wizard_, is one of the best of the YA books I've read. This book, the first sequel, doesn't have the the outrageous, clever humor of the first book, but it replaces it with amazing personal drama and a sense of tragedy-no other YA book I've read gets closer to the level of great adult fantasy literature (with the possible exception of Garth Nix's _Sabriel_).
Wizards Nita and Kit must save New York from an ocean disaster by participating with whale sorcerers in a ceremony to calm the Lone Power...a ceremony that may require the sacrifice of Nita's life. Duane approaches the level of great science fantasy writers Fritz Leiber and L. Sprague de Camp in this work of modern fantasy, and manages to embarass Harry Potter in the extreme. Thoroughly exceptional, and adults take notice-you'll love this book as much as the younger readers.
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Title: So You Want to Be a Wizard: The First Book in the Young Wizards Series by Diane Duane ISBN: 015216250X 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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Title: The Wizard's Holiday: The Seventh Book in the Young Wizards Series by Diane Duane ISBN: 0152047719 Publisher: Harcourt Children's Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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