Black Magician Trilogy The Magicians' Guild, Book 1, (Paperback)

from alcarinqa

This is a light, entertaining book that I enjoyed reading. The action takes place mainly in the slums of Kyralia and the Magician's Guild, both of which were wonderfully realised. While there wasn't a strong sense of place in the book because only the two of these places was described in any grea...

from Clurb

Easy to read, fast paced, entertaining. I whizzed through this and enjoyed every page of it although couldn't quite reconcile myself to the fact that Canavan's Guild and Pratchett's Unseen University are two seperate enteties. Left some amusing images in my head though.

from twilightnocturne

Set in the fictitious town of Imardin, the capital city of Kyralia, "The Magician's Guild" by Trudi Canavan starts with a bang. It begins focussing in our main character Sonea, where she and her family are being driven away from their place in the slums. Each year the city streets are purged of t...

from souloftherose

I'd been aware of this fantasy series for a few years and picked this up from the local library. When I flicked through the book in the library the first paragraph captivated me and made me decide to read it: "It is said, in Imardin, that the wind has a soul, and that it wails through the narrow ...

from stefferoo

Trudi Canavan is an author I'd been looking forward to read for a long time. Thanks to my book hoarding habits, I found that I actually own the first books from both her Black Magician Trilogy and the Traitor Spy Trilogy and didn't know which to tackle first. Then I found out that the latter seri...