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juushikaTitle: Street Magic (The Circle Opens Book 2)
Author: Tamora Pierce
Published: New York: Scholastic, 2011 (2001)
Rating: 3 of 5
Page Count: 300
Total Page Count: 198,950
Text Number: 587
Read Because: continuing the series, ebook borrowed from the Multnomah County Library
Review: In the distant city of Chammur, Briar and Rosethorn's work is interrupted by a gang war and the discovery of a young stone mage. This book is more successful than Magic Steps, thanks to the new, if not unproblematic, Arabian-inspired setting and better developed characters with more robust interactions (I especially love the way that Briar has internalized the influence of his fellow students). The larger plot is predictable and the villains overdrawn, but the climax, vast and violent, with evocative imagery, provides plenty of payoff. As a stand-alone, I would enjoy this. But the repetitive format of this quartet is already growing stale.
Author: Tamora Pierce
Published: New York: Scholastic, 2011 (2001)
Rating: 3 of 5
Page Count: 300
Total Page Count: 198,950
Text Number: 587
Read Because: continuing the series, ebook borrowed from the Multnomah County Library
Review: In the distant city of Chammur, Briar and Rosethorn's work is interrupted by a gang war and the discovery of a young stone mage. This book is more successful than Magic Steps, thanks to the new, if not unproblematic, Arabian-inspired setting and better developed characters with more robust interactions (I especially love the way that Briar has internalized the influence of his fellow students). The larger plot is predictable and the villains overdrawn, but the climax, vast and violent, with evocative imagery, provides plenty of payoff. As a stand-alone, I would enjoy this. But the repetitive format of this quartet is already growing stale.
