The Black Magicians Triology, Trudi Canavan

[Matt]

The names of the books are;

The Magicians Guild

The Novice

The High Lord.

Its a fantasy book, as you might of guessed, with the name and all that, but it is very good, if you like the whole witches and wizards, but in the book they are called "Magicians"... Won an award or two.

It begins like this, well not exactly, Sonea, a mere slum girl, discovers her powers when she chucks a brick at a magicians head, am not joking, the magician has a shield around him, to stop this sort of thing happening, but the brick simply flys straight through in a burst of blue light and knocks the magician unconcious, the whole guild then sets out to finds this girl, Sonea, and Sonea, thinking they where trying to kill her goes to the Theives, a group of very successful ones which make others do the work for them, the Theives decide to help hide her, and her powers begin to become un-controleable, everything starts to blow up around her, everything catching light, and the Theives in desperation give to the Guild... Ill stop there

[gus]

Yes, they are very good books. Their category would probably be fantasy, rather than fiction. Her other trilogy is also very good, even through it starts a bit slow.

[Matt]

am gonna get those when I get back in SA

[spAc3dd]

I dunno. I have only read the first one in the series, but it didn't really grip me. So I never read the rest.

[Cullen_Doom]

I have read The first one. I'm a sucker for fantasies so I really enjoyed this one.

I give it a thumbs up.

[Punky3025]

I have read all three. It was a fair story line but the descriptive language is a bit repetitive.

[TG]

I read all three recently. Not too horrible.

There's a fourth one, but outside of the series - set LONG before the events of the trilogy, iirc. I think it's called The Magician's Apprentice.

[senorblinky]

I'm assuming it has nothing to do with Disney's "The Sorcerer's Apprentice"?

[Flatty]

I'm assuming it has nothing to do with Disney's "The Sorcerer's Apprentice"?

I had the Disney comic books, "The Sorcerer's Apprentice", "Lady & the Tramp", the whole shebang - hardcover, beautifully illustrated, which I sold for cash to spend a day playing Asteroids, Pacman & other games

[Nitty]

What was The Whole Shebang about Flatty?