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    The Magician's Ward

    By Patricia C. Wrede

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    Happy in her new life as an apprentice to the powerful magician Mairelon, 16-year-old Kim is horrified when a nosy relative determines to turn Kim - a former street urchin - into. . .a lady! But real trouble begins when several wizards of Kim's acquaintance disappear. Then Mairelon's magic disappears!

    It's up to Kim to unravel the mystery. And to do that she will have to return to her old life back in the dark and dirty streets of London.



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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Publishers
    Release dateJun 25, 2013
    ISBN9781466847934
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    The Magician's Ward
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    Patricia C. Wrede

    PATRICIA COLLINS WREDE was born in Chicago, the oldest of five children.  She attended Carleton College in Minnesota, where she majored in biology and managed to avoid taking any English courses.  She began work on her first novel, Shadow Magic (1982), after graduation, though it took her five years to finish it.  Ms. Wrede enjoyed a successful career as a financial analyst, but she always made time to write.  Her published books now total more than a dozen.

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    • 5/5
      Set in the same world as The Enchanted Chocolate Pot and delightfully spiced with theive's cant.
    • 3/5
      When an author mixes genres without changing publishers (or cover artists), she is bound to get unhappy customers. There was too much of the Regency romance novel mixed in this tale for my interest. Yes, Kim professes to hate the gowns & society obligations, but we still have to read about them. Having a mystery involving a magician is not sufficient to hold my interest. I have no desire to read further in this series.
    • 3/5
      Liked this one better than the first book. It is notable for having a very cool magic system that actually explains why spells have to be in foreign or dead languages.
    • 4/5
      Now Mairelon's ward, Kim must learn to deal with London Society, while also handling the unusual events occurring around her.The Magician's Ward is a fun book full of powerful female characters, including Mairelon's overly-strict aunt and his charming and brilliant mother, their friend Renee, and other Society ladies. It's interesting to see London Society through all of those perspectives, especially Kim's, while at the same time they are trying to deal with a burglary, a mysterious wizard, and other problems that arise.
    • 5/5
      Fun. While still being clearly Kim's and Mairelon's story, it's also a near-standard Regency romance. The young lady who does not fit the standard Society mold, who none-the-less becomes a success - and rejects a rich marriage for more important things... And then the magic and the adventures entwined with the romance. The scare Mairelon gets, that only gets worse right up to the climax; Aunt Leticia, showing unexpected depths only in the crisis; the people from her former life that Kim encounters and deals with... It's a great story, with a happy ending and a lovely (funny) last scene. I do wish she'd written more - I'd love to see what Kim gets up to as a full wizard. But these two stories are great as is.
    • 5/5
      Summary: Now that Mairelon has taken Kim on as his apprentice, the determination and quick intelligence that she developed as a common pickpocket and street thief are proving surprisingly useful in the study of magic. However, nothing could have prepared her for the terrors she will have to face as a young lady about to come out into polite society. Now Kim must not only learn the laws of magic and the equally unforgiving rules of society, she must also deal with an attempted burglary of Mairelon's library, which is only the tip of an international plot decades in the making.Review: Wrede's done it again: blended genres effortlessly, telling a interesting story with strong characters, a flair for snappy dialogue, and more than enough humor to round things out. It's not quite of a piece with Mairelon the Magician - while the first book felt primarily like a farce, Magician's Ward feels more like a comedy of manners - but it's equally enjoyable. In fact, I think it's actually better: the plot is less convoluted and flows more smoothly, and the supporting cast is smaller and more easy to keep straight. I also liked the touch of Regency Romance (which would admittedly have been out of place in the first book), and the addition of Mairelon's mother, who is a proper (if somewhat quirky) Lady *and* a practicing magician, is absolutely brilliant. I tore through this book in a single evening, and now definitely need to find my own copy, because I can easily see this joining Wrede's other books as a perennial comfort read. 4.5 out of 5 stars.Recommendation: This book could probably be read and understood independently of Mairelon the Magician, but they're both so much fun that I can't see why you'd want to. Fans of Wrede's Sorcery & Cecelia will like this for sure, as will anyone who likes historical fantasy, Regency romance with a little magic thrown in (a la Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, but less magic-y and much lighter), or who is just looking for a fun, funny, and engaging read.
    • 4/5
      I can't believe I've missed this book all these years, along with its predecessor [Mairelon the Magician], which I used to see in bookstores and somehow never picked up. I have Wrede's Alkyra novels and have greatly enjoyed them as light, fluffy young adult derivative fantasy that does a good job portraying the discomforts of both travel and growing up. I stumbled across [Sorcery and Cecilia] only last year, which I greatly enjoyed. I have not yet found the rest of that trilogy, which is set in the same time period as this book.The novel is set in Regency London, which is about the only genre of romance novels that I read (though not much anymore, since the modern works are not to my taste). The author does a good job portraying the language, manners, attitudes, and general ambiance of the time, but with magic too. In this case, our heroine Kim has been elevated from street urchin to rich man's ward and apprentice. The class distinctions of the day are nicely sidestepped by the author's convention that magicians (at least those trained and effectively certified by the Royal College of Magicians) are always socially acceptable, whatever their background may have been. As far as I can tell, this story effectively takes up where [Mairelon the Magician] left off. In that case, Mairelon was traveling incognito and using his skills to uncover some sort of plot during the Napoleonic War. Kim got entangled in the shenanigans and doubtless helped save the day and is rewarded for her efforts. In this novel, she struggles to become acceptable and study magic, learning to read and speak properly and so on, while once again working with Mairelon to foil a mysterious plot after she interrupts a burglar in the library.This is another classic Wrede send-up, a sweet, simple, straightforward story of a young girl struggling to find her place in a society where she doesn't quite fit.
    • 5/5
      This is the sequel to Mairelon the Magician. A couple of years after Mairelon (known in society as Richard Merrill) discovers Kim and takes her on as his apprentice, they're living in London with his prim and proper aunt.When Kim discovers someone breaking into Mairelon's house, attempting to steal a particular book, it leads them into a mystery involving the disappearance of people with minor magical talent, hidden treasure, and ultimately the theft of Mairelon's power, leaving novice Kim to handle the magical part of their investigations.In the meanwhile, Mairelon's mother and his disapproving aunt are busy introducing a reluctant Kim to Society. When she begins to be courted by young men, she realizes it's Mairelon she's really in love with.One of the Amazon reviewers called this "J. K. Rowling meets Georgette Heyer," and that's a very apt description. The Magician's Ward is just as much a Regency romance as it is a Regency-set fantasy-mystery.
    • 5/5
      This is a sequel to Mairelon the Magician, and it is just as good. In this pair of books Ms. Wrede has mixed two of my favorite genres: fantasy and regency romance.
    • 5/5
      This is the sequel to "Mairleon the Magician" and begins soon after the first book ends. This book delves more into the impoverished world Kim left when she became Mairleon's ward, while also showing us more of the society world she is entering. Fast paced and quit enjoyable.