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Mood: Very Sad ]
[ Currently: Cause my free time comes quickly to an end. ]
This is the third installment of Tamora Pierce’s Circle of Magic book. As with the firs three, she has focused on one major character for development and backstory, although the others get good character development adn story time.
This time we look at Daja, the young Trader who was the sole survivor of a ship wreck. This makes her an exile as she has bad luck. Her magic deals with metal, as she can manipulate it using magic.
The backdrop of the story is the four apprentices and their teachers heading off to deal with a drought and forest fire. Daja comes in contact wit more Traders, who shun her as she has bad luck.
Good story, with most stuff being resolved by the end. It is American Children’s fiction.