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Wild Magic

Written by Tamora Pierce

Narrated by Sarah Ovens

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars

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Wildness is a kind of magic

Discover a land of enchantment, legend, and adventure in this second book of The Immortals series, featuring an updated cover – perfect for longtime fans and newcomers alike.

Daine has always had a special connection with animals, but only when she’s forced to leave home does she realize it’s more than a knack . . . it’s magic. With this wild magic, not only can Daine speak to animals, but she can also make them obey her. Daine takes a job handling horses for the Queen’s Riders, where she meets the master mage Numair and becomes his apprentice.

Under Numair’s guidance, Daine explores the scope of her magic. But she encounters other beings, too, who are not so gentle. These terrifying creatures, called Immortals, have been imprisoned in the Divine Realms for the past four hundred years – but now someone has broken the barrier. And it’s up to Daine and her friends to defend their world from an Immortal attack.

LanguageEnglish
PublisherHarperCollins
Release dateOct 18, 2018
ISBN9780008304096
Author

Tamora Pierce

Beloved author Tamora Pierce has written a great number of books, including the Song of the Lioness quartet, The Immortals quartet, the Circle of Magic quartet, the Protector of the Small quartet, The Circle Opens quartet, the Trickster series, The Will of the Empress, Melting Stones, the Beka Cooper series, and The Numair Chronicles. She lives in upstate New York with various cats, other four-legged animals, and birds who feed in her yard, and can be e-visited at Tamora-Pierce.net.

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  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Just love it! Can´t believe I hadn´t read it until now.
    Adventure, magic, friendship, fantastical creature. Can´t it have more of what I want?
    Already can see I´m gonna read and re-read this one for the rest of my life.
    On to the next one in the quartet!
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    This is one of my most favorite books of all time! I've bought this book twice, the first time which was fantastic! The second not so much because I had read the first so many times it just up and fell apart on me - something I have never done before.

    The story of Daine just grabs me up from the very first sentence and no matter what I do I can't bring myself to put it down. It is my inspiration, something to bring me up when I am down, and everything in between. Reading this book makes me want to right something equally amazing as well as read more and more. Daine is headstrong, speaks to animals, and makes friends of which I envy her of so I am very happy that I can live in the world she does for even a fraction of my time. I can't help but wish for Tamora Pierce to write many more books so I can live in that world with them more often with new adventures.

    GO DAINE!
  • Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
    2/5
    After raiders destroy her happy village, a young peasant girl named Daine joins up with the Queen's Own hostler. They travel to Tortall, having dangerous adventures along the way. Once in Tortall, Daine discovers she has Wild Magic, which enables her to communicate and control all animals. Despite the many attacks by monsters, this book lacks any narrative tension, probably because I actively dislike Daine.
  • Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
    2/5
    This book goes again to the, to put it somehow, childish adventure.

    The main character is a 12 years old girl with strong wild magic, a mysterious father, and a nick to find herself in the middle of huge problems.

    I really like Daine's character, she is honest and fair, she is sincere and small, she is afraid and valiant, she is smart but uncultured. She is a good hero.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Oh my Goddess.Tamora Pierce has always been one of those authors who whenever her name came up I felt a vague tugging like I was missing out on something that would be a Really, Really Big Deal to me, so to have that confirmed in such an immediate, overpowering way upon reading my first book by her is stirring feelings I don't quite have words for.I have always wanted more fantasy (especially magic-focused fantasy) in my library, but the few times I've tried to get into fantasy I've been recommended epics with thick plots and paper-thin characters, and like... there's a REASON I think Lord of the Rings makes much better movies than it does books, y'all! So to have something THIS exactly what I'm looking for fall into my lap is really something else.The way this book approaches magic is perfect, both in terms of how it mechanically works/feels AND in the way the ethics around it are presented. I would not be even slightly surprised if Pierce were a practicing Witch or some other kind of magic-user. Daine is a wonderful protagonist who is realistically struggling with some trauma and who isn't always perfect, but is surrounded by people who grow very quickly to care very much about her and very much want her to be okay and will go to great effort to help make sure she's in a space where that can happen, while ALSO recognizing her own value and not patronizing her, letting HER help THEM when she's able to, and it's just... it's just...! It's just SO. GOOD. It's just everything I want to see in the world in the form of a really good story and I love it so much.(... shameful personal aside: I was definitely a lot more horny for Zhaneh Bitterclaws than I was supposed to be. I'm sorry! Her taunts are just so choice, and so dommy.)So, yeah. This is something of a beginning for me because I just KNOW I'm going to devour the rest of her bibliography and love every second of it, and instead of being irritated that I missed the boat for so long I'll instead choose to be excited that A) I HAVE SO MUCH OF HER STUFF TO READ I'm like never gonna run out, and B) I have someone to gush about it to along the way!!
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    A fun, "old-fashioned" (i.e, like the fantasy books I read as a child in the 1970s) fantasy. Who wouldn't want to be able to talk to animals?
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    This book about a 13 year old girl, is an engaging book for the girl that likes fantasy and adventure. And it will hook the boys too! I enjoyed reading this a second time. I especially as a teacher enjoyed the hook in the epilogue that will catch the kids and get them to read another book! If you are looking for a coming of age, I'm not sure of myself, fantasy, adventure book this is it. Many kids will identify with Daine as she goes about learning about herself and the world. It will also give kids a look into the lives of adults that care and how the assumptions of the kids can often be wrong and prevent them from getting the help from an adult they may desperately want.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    This is my first Tamora Pierce novel and WHY DID IT TAKE ME SO LONG TO READ HER? I loved this book so much!
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Excellent, just like the others.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    This book was surprisingly good :) It started out a little stiff. The pace picking up as I went. The world building was pretty solid; I love Daine, though I do tend to picture her differently from the cover model.

    You know a book fits into high fantasy when it has a map at the front of it. Daine is thirteen, and alone. HEr and her horse, Cloud, are searching for their next home. Enter, Onua, A K'mir who instantly takes a liking to Daine.

    I can't wait to see what they will get up to next.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    I needed to go back to tortall this was just the ticket
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    I recently reread the Immortals quartet after what was probably a five or six year break. What surprised me the most about Wild Magic is that it was clearly for middle-grade readers, which is what I was when I began reading them.

    The quality of writing, however--and for that matter, of the story and of the characters as well--has not diminished. I may have been able to whip through each of the Immortals' installments, but I was still very impressed with the structure of the story and the fullness of each character. I found myself sympathizing with Daine, the main character, as she struggled to adjust to her new life. I fell in love with the supporting characters as well--everyone from Cloud and Tahoi to Numair and Kalasin. (And, of course, Alanna.)

  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    As you can see by the speed at which I finished this book, (less than 24 hours) it is quite a capturing tale. It's most obvious appeal to me is Daine's ability to communicate with animals. I just love all the characters in this book, they're all so easy to connect to.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    In the first book in this series, Daine, a 13 year old girl is capable of communicating with animals. Although this sounds interesting, the way the author handled it was more annoying than anything else. Daine is an orphan, who is trying to develop her skills while a war is going on. In her journeys, she becomes an apprentice to a mage, who helps her develop her magical skills. Using her skills, Daine senses new beings known as immortals trying to break into her world. Her and her friends now must fight these immortals and defend their world.I liked the general concept of this novel, but there was also a lot not to like. For one is the dialogue, which I found to be subpar. Another is the characters, which generally speaking I didn’t find very appealing. At the top of the list is Daine herself, who comes off as whiny and not particularly interesting. The plot and action were pretty solid. This was only a so-so novel, not something that would get me excited about reading additional installments.Carl Alves – author of Blood Street
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    This is possibly my favorite Tamora Pierce book. It is so full of laugh-out-loud humor and brings back all the familiar characters you loved in the first series. Daine is someone you want to be friends with the entire book and along with all the old characters from the Alanna series making appearances, I loved the newer ones too. An excellent summer read!!!
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Read the book multiple times and just listened to the Full Cast Audio production - both are highly enjoyable.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    When I'm dog tired and distracted, this is my kind of escapist fiction. Sometimes you just had a long week. You met all the obligations on the list and for some reason it was a long list, and you're fighting some sort of a minor virus and mostly winning, and those new shoes are needing to break in a little more than you thought so now your feet hurt a bit and all the batteries in all the battery operated things chose now to run out, and apparently the drivers had a bad case of Friday afternoon lunacy and were pulling out in front of you and stopping for no damn reason and then honking at you as if it were your fault, and there's no damn milk in the fridge!!! and so it goes. You are just a bit worn and a bit ready to be in a big soft chair with a nice cold drink and something to read that isn't going to be all that demanding because you've had enough demands just now thank you very much. But at the same time, please don't insult my intelligence. Please don't be mean spirited and stupid and tawdry. Ahhh Tamora Pierce, welcome to my tension headache, and thank you very much.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    While this is not an expertly crafted story, it is a pretty children's tale. I enjoyed its whimsical nature. I would definitely recommend it to anyone.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    I liked this book, but it was not brilliant. The story is relatively simple, a bit childish I'd say, but entertaining.
  • Rating: 1 out of 5 stars
    1/5
    Such a disappointment! I don’t even have the heart to write a decent review, and believe me when I say I’m hurting inside---this was my first Tamora Pierce book and I had such high expectations, but the poor darlings came all tumbling down as the story progressed. I just couldn’t get into it. It’s… it’s all over the place, to the point that I had no idea whatsoever of what, who, when, where… I just---I just---it’s not for me.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    Tamora Pierce was recommended to me by a friend when I need to get the bad taste of Twilight out of my mouth. I started with Alanna and The Lioness Quartet, which I greatly enjoyed. Like that series, The Immortals is set in Pierce's imaginary and magical land of Tortall, although this is focused on a completely different set of characters: in particular Daine, who raised by wolves has an ability to communicate with any animal. This isn't my favorite Pierce series or character: I find the environmentalist themes not just not to my liking, but heavy handed. But then I read these as an adult, not in the 12 to 16 age group recommended. But like all Pierce's books, the world-building is well-done and the storytelling strong enough I was completely sucked in. And I loved Numair, Daine's magical mentor. Lots in these books is fun and quotable, and had I read this as a young girl, I'm sure I would have eaten up the girl-who-can-speak-to-animals plot. I was less taken with the next book, but then the last two books I think were kicked up a notch.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Perfectly charming story of a 13 year-old, Daine, who discovers that the talent for which she's been excoriated is a kind of wild magic. True to fantasy tropes, we have a journey, a discovery of self, triumph over evil and a discovery of where Daine fits in the world. Yet it all seems quite fresh, and as a reader, I shared Daine's exhilaration and fear as she grows into an assured young woman. I recommend this.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    This was the first Tamora Pierce book I ever read, and I was hooked from then on. Wild Magic brings us back to Tortall and introduces the character of Daine, who is looking to find work and to escape her past. Her skill with animals gets her a job as an assistant to Onua, a horse buyer for the Queen's Riders. They journey together to the capital and meet a couple old friends on the way. This starts Daine on the way to mastering her wild magic and integrating into palace life. Adventures await and soon only Daine's magic can help when enemies of Tortall attack the royal family.I loved this book for it's characters, and for the continued world building. I would love to visit Tortall! Daine is pragmatic and smart, Numair is fun and caring, and the whole cast seem REAL, which can be hard in YA fantasy. Definitely a must read, especially for young/teen girls. Pierce's "sheroes" are great for boys too.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    I probably would have loved this book if I'd read it as a kid, but as an adult I noticed that there was really no conflict at all in the whole book. Daine grows and learns but really things keep getting better and better for her without many surprises. I'll be interested to see if this continues in the rest of the series. Even so, I read it quickly and definitely enjoyed it. It's got all the right pieces, a tough spunky heroine who can talk to animals, a supportive cast of colorful friends, monsters and mythical creatures, even the badger god, and a big battle.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Tamora Pierce wrote "Wild Magic" as the first installment of her second set of books in the Tortall universe. It offers a perspective on Alanna's world from the other side, that of an illegitimate foreign peasant, who has a completely different magic about her which does not follow the formal rules of the "Gift" of Alanna and her type. Where Alanna was stubborn and brash, Daine is shy and...also stubborn, but with her own quiet way about it. The book also opens up the world of Tortall and its neighbors into a much more lush, diverse landscape. Whereas the Tortall of "Song of the Lioness" served as sort of a medieval stand-in (with magic), in "The Immortals" series, Pierce broadened her scope to other countries, while introducing truly original magical what-nots. By what-nots I refer to the cascade of immortal creatures flooding into the human world due to some sort of rip in the division between their world and that of the gods and chaos.This book is a marvelous follow up to her first quartet of books in that it firmly establishes Tortall as a complex, fascinating fantasy setting that can indeed evolve and show many different colors, with plenty of room to encompass all different kinds of characters and stories.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    A friend told me that she couldn't bear to re-read this as she was afraid of spoiling the memory of her enjoyment. It's certainly a book for a younger audience. Daine, the heroine, is skilled with animals, brave, and friendless - an excellent basis for the main character of a fantasy novel. The world is well-evoked, even though the 'good' characters merge together rather in their excessive niceness. Following Daine and Onua on their journey with a herd of horses is exciting as they manage dangers of all kinds and find out more about Daine and her powers. We don't dicover why Daine is all alone, or how it is that the animals do all that she asks, until quite far into the book, and that keeps the interest going nicely. I want to read the next volume.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
     The setting is a comfortable mock-medieval world of small towns and feudal holdings, familiar to those who have read the preceding four-novel set (which I have not), and not markedly distinct from any other such fantasy world. As the central character, a recently-orphaned teenager called Daine, encounters a woman horse-merchant, the scene is rather transparently set for a book designed to appeal especially to horse-loving girls. (I was a little irritated by a heroine who must not only have a preternatural knack with animals but also be a phenomenal archer: one special power seems enough!) As the journey commences, there is more than enough of the domestic minutiae of camping to answer the charge that questing fantasy heroes never seem to go to the toilet or wash the dishes.Daine has a secret "bad thing" about which hints are dropped. When we find out what it is, it seems a little odd that she was so reluctant to tell her new friends, though she had curiously failed to spot that Numair the mage was a shape-shifter. It also clashes rather with her polite and well-groomed persona. Pierce has deprived herself of a cracking novel by dealing with the preceding part of Daine's life (running wild with wolves) entirely in flashback; but perhaps the different tone required would have stretched either the author's skill or (less likely) the reading skills of her target audience.The older characters are fairly enough drawn, if a little same-ish. Daine's repeatedly exressed surprise at the informality displayed by Tortallan nobility does make me sneakily wonder whether the author can actually do formal dialogue: easier to follow Terry Brooks and have all your folk talk as though they lived in the 20th-century. (There were hints of the faults of David Eddings, too: I do not think that adult queens should ever giggle!) But Daine's perception of her wild magic is beautifully described, and the insertion of meditation into the regime of a mage was an interesting notion. The story builds to a magical siege, and there are some basic but thoughtful issues about whether animals should be persuaded to assist in human conflict or discouraged. Daine expends some effort in trying to dissuade small, vulnerable creatures from getting involved, and is suitably nonplussed when the whales from whom she does seek help turn out to be pacifists and refuse to intervene! The help that does come is from a being so powerful that it takes some effort to dismiss -- an old trope (remember The Worm Ouroboros?) but a good one.All in all, a pleasant read, if a bit girly in places.MB 11-ii-2011
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    I like Daine. She's a bit of an idiot, hiding her secret from her friends - but I can see why she does it, too. And it had a happy ending, too - that could have been a complete ending (orphan finds her place), but works well as a step along the way of her path. It's been a long time since I read these books for the first time - I know Daine's future - so it's hard to see only what goes on in _this_ book.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    I am very partial to Pierce's heroines. There's just something about them that I love. Alanna will always be my favourite (I think subconsciously I avoided this series because I worried I would be let down), Daine now holds another special place in my heart, probably because of her connection to animals. I know the writing isn't exactly deep, but the characters are beloved, as well as the realm of Tortall, and reading this book feels just like coming home. I love Numair & his cheekiness, and reading about Alanna again feels like being united with a dear old friend. I have the rest of the series coming in the mail quite soon ^^ I believe no young girl should be without Tamora Pierce's wonderful quartets.
  • Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
    2/5
    I listened to the audiobook and it ruined the book. The "full-cast audio" was done by what sounded like a junior high school English class. The main narrator's pace was set to a metronome - never wavering even during the fight scenes. Ms. Pierce really needs to respect her work and get a better production company.