Book Review: Tamora Pierce’s Battle Magic
Mages Briar, Rosethorn, and Evvy are invited to visit the emperor where they discover plans to invade, threatening the home temple of their religion.
Mages Briar, Rosethorn, and Evvy are invited to visit the emperor where they discover plans to invade, threatening the home temple of their religion.
It’s an adventure packed with suspense, shocks and danger, as the friends do battle that will decide Rondo’s future forever.
After fiddling with the box while Mimi was away, Leo Zifkak and his cousin must put the world of Rondo to rights and find a missing wizard and free an innocent man.
There are four rules to the old, painted music box that Leo Langlander inherits from his great-aunt, and Leo and Mimi broke every one of them.
Torture, lack of justice…and growth for Stanley Yelnats at Camp Green Lake. And all the fault of that no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather.
The angry Evvy is on a punishment voyage with her mentor, prickly green mage Rosethorn, who must determine why the plants and animals are dying.
The Empress of Namorn extorts her young cousin, Lady Sandrilene fa Toren, to visit, & Sandry finally gives in, as long as her special “guards” come along.
Daja and her mentor, Frostpine, settle in for winter when Daja discovers the twin daughters of her host have magic and Kugisko is struck by arson.
While traveling, young plant mage Briar Moss comes across a street girl using powerful magic to polish stones for a merchant. A gang wants and he and Rosethorne are her only protection.
Convinced something is wrong with the new neighbors, Kenny and his friends investigate…definitely the wrong choice around Halloween.