Magic, love and action! what more can you ask from a book?? (Black Magician Trilogy: The Magicians' Guild - Trudi Canavan)

Member Name: nicki_221987

Product:	Black Magician Trilogy: The Magicians' Guild - Trudi Canavan
Date:	16/10/06 (98 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Absolutley amazing book, brillant storyline, you actually fall in love with the characters

Disadvantages: The start is a bit boring

Sonea is a slum girl, nothing special! She lives and works for her aunt and uncle and they are lucky enough to live in the North Quarter of the slums in a stayhouse.

However, no longer are they lucky, the King has ordered the packed stay houses to be emptied as they are 'unsafe'!

Now Sonea and her Aunt and Uncle have to find somewhere else to live!

After being sent by her aunt to find a place sonea overhears a plan to trap a gang, the gang she used to belong to, the gang who try to move against the purge!

The purge happens once a year when all so called thiefs get forced out of the city by the magicians.

However Sonea knows that the purge only forces the poor out of the city! Sonea heads to help her friends and warn them of the trap. Little does she know that she will end up becoming involved in the fight against the purge!

After bumping into her friends Cery and Harrin from the gang she is pulled into the fight. She becomes angry at the guild for causing her family to be forced out and picks up a stone.

What can a slum girl do though other than throw a stone at the magicians barrier that cannot be broken? Little does she realise that her life is about to change forever as her stone passes through the barrier and knocks a magician unconscious.

Now the magicians are hunting all the city for her. How can she possibly escape the hands of those she most fears and hates?

The magicians worst fear has been met, an untrained magician is loose on the streets! They must find her before her power destroys both her and the city!


When this book was recommended to me by a friend i thought why not, i was at a loss for what to read having read all my books many times!

I went out and brought the book not expecting much from it as i had been reading the likes of harry potter and sabriel, how wrong i was!

I started reading the book and at first the first chapter or two were a bit slow going and i thought i was gonna get bored soon, however i thought i would struggle on and see how it got on!

Soon i couldn't put the book down, i was drawn into the story and fell in love with the characters! Sonea was a girl whos life seemed to not be doing much and many can relate to that.

All the horrors and fears Sonea has you feel you have! The book seems real as you are reading it and i was very sad when it ended!

This book took me two nights to read as i could not put it down, the very next day i went out and brought the sequel: The Novice!

I would recommend this book to any fantasy lover and as an 18 year old student this book has now become my favorite along with the sequels! I have re-read this book several times now and each time it has me hooked!!!

It is well worth the money as can be found in the shops for around £8 for the hardback and can be found on ebay for around £3!

Summary: My opinion of Trudi Canavan's The Magicians Guild!!