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Book Review By Monica
The Magician's Guild by Trudi Canavan

Sonea is a normal teenaged girl living in the slums of Imardin when the magicians do their yearly perge of all the unwanted in the city. Furious, Sonea joins in with her trouble making gang friends to hurl stones at the magicians, not expecting anything to happen since they are cloaked in magic. When Sonea's stones goes through one of the magician's sheilds and renders him unconcious, the magicians stop what they are doing to find this mysterious girl who has powers that they are unaware of.

Stunned, Sonea enlists her friend Cery's help in hiding her from the magicians lest they find and kill her. Now it is a game of cat and mouse between Sonea and the magicians to see who can keep running the longest.


Plot & Themes
Tone of book - very upbeat
FANTASY or SCIENCE FICTION? - fantasy world/fantasy past
Coming of age Yes
Magical Beings/Mental/Magical/Powers Yes
magical powers:
Is this an adult or child's book? - Adult or Young Adult Book
Descript. of chases or violence - 20 %
planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 30 %
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 40 %
Descript. of society, phenomena (tech), places - 10 %

Main Character
Identity: - Female
Profession/status:
Age: - a teen

Main Adversary
Identity: - an organization
Age: - long-lived adults
Profession/status:
Has magical powers? Yes
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in: - throughout most of the book.
How sensitive is this character?
Sense of humor - Strong but gentle sense of humor
Intelligence - Smarter than most other characters

Setting
Terrain
Takes place on Earth? Yes

Writing Style
Accounts of torture and death? - generic/vague references to death/punishment
How much dialogue? - roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
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