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NITA SLIPPED OUT THE back door of the beach house, careful not to let the rickety screen door slam, and for a second stood silently on the back porch in the darkness. Read the first page
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NITA SLIPPED OUT THE back door of the beach house, careful not to let the rickety screen door slam, and for a second stood silently on the back porch in the darkness. Read the first page
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is a YA book about adolescents, but at 23 I find that it's still my all-time favorite. It's moving without being pretentious, and the dilemma presented is morally complex. Duane doesn't pull punches or talk down to readers (save for a few comic relief missteps which don't detract from the impact of the book). _Deep Wizardry_ is fascinating and fun, easy to read with some simple yet beautifully lyric turns of phrase. I reread my well-worn copy of it at least once or twice a year, and still find it satisfying. Playful, emotional, beautiful, realistic and a must-have for any intelligent fantasy-lover.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I read this book for the first time while waiting for the release of the fourth Harry Potter book, looking for something to fill the empty space. To my surprise, I found a book that I would argue is at least as good as Harry Potter--and perhaps better.
The second book in Diane Duane's YOUNG WIZARDS series starts with middle school friends, Nita and Kit, on vacation together with Nita's family at the beach. They think it's going to be just another summer, but they couldn't be more mistaken. Nita and Kit are both wizards, and the forces of evil don't take vacations. The job of wizards is to fight the Lone Power, the one who created death and continually attempts to trick people into accepting it. Wizards work with spells learned from their wizards' manuals, and the use of the Speech, a language that all things, animate or inanimate, understand.
When Nita and Kit are summoned to help a whale wizard who's been wounded by whalers, they find out that things have not been going well in the Sea, and that if the wizards don't do something about it soon, the problems may spread to land in the form of earthquakes and tidal waves. The solution is to perform the Song of the Twelve in order to bind the Lone Power and keep It from wreaking havoc on the east coast. And in the case of these two young wizards, they have to do all this while keeping their powers secret from their parents, who are beginning to wonder what they spend their days doing.
The main characters are compelling, but the supporting cast is just as strong, consisting of equal numbers of whales and humans. Duane's portrayal of life under the sea, and the ways that humans can unknowingly affect it, is insightful and true. The tension rises throughout the story, so that every scene is more intense than the next.
I must have read this book ten times, and every time I get to the ending, I'm so caught up in it that I can't put it down until I'm done. The language of the story itself is beautifully descriptive, not just of the underwater world, but also of the characters' emotions. A story about friendship, duty, and sacrifice whose truth and beauty still amaze me, more than six years down the road.
Reviewed by: Candace Cunard
The second book in Diane Duane's YOUNG WIZARDS series starts with middle school friends, Nita and Kit, on vacation together with Nita's family at the beach. They think it's going to be just another summer, but they couldn't be more mistaken. Nita and Kit are both wizards, and the forces of evil don't take vacations. The job of wizards is to fight the Lone Power, the one who created death and continually attempts to trick people into accepting it. Wizards work with spells learned from their wizards' manuals, and the use of the Speech, a language that all things, animate or inanimate, understand.
When Nita and Kit are summoned to help a whale wizard who's been wounded by whalers, they find out that things have not been going well in the Sea, and that if the wizards don't do something about it soon, the problems may spread to land in the form of earthquakes and tidal waves. The solution is to perform the Song of the Twelve in order to bind the Lone Power and keep It from wreaking havoc on the east coast. And in the case of these two young wizards, they have to do all this while keeping their powers secret from their parents, who are beginning to wonder what they spend their days doing.
The main characters are compelling, but the supporting cast is just as strong, consisting of equal numbers of whales and humans. Duane's portrayal of life under the sea, and the ways that humans can unknowingly affect it, is insightful and true. The tension rises throughout the story, so that every scene is more intense than the next.
I must have read this book ten times, and every time I get to the ending, I'm so caught up in it that I can't put it down until I'm done. The language of the story itself is beautifully descriptive, not just of the underwater world, but also of the characters' emotions. A story about friendship, duty, and sacrifice whose truth and beauty still amaze me, more than six years down the road.
Reviewed by: Candace Cunard
Format:Paperback
Don't pay attention to the pigeonholing of these books as Young Adult -- I'm forty-five and I enjoy them at least as much as "adult" fantasy.
Nita and Kit face some serious moral and ethical dilemnas in the waters off Long Island. The sequence where Nita finally figures out what to say to her parents is a classic. What a joy to see well-drawn believable adolescent characters with a sense of responsibility and moral character, without getting at all preachy.
Duane isn't afraid to put some pretty intense stuff into her work -- a bit more scary jeopardy that some may be used to in adolescent fiction. But this remains the best of a fine series.
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The best of the Wizardry books
As an older reader, in my forties, I found this a deeply moving and engrossing read.
Published on 25 Jun 2000
I never could finish it!
The sequel to So You Want to Be a Wizard. I loved that book so I though I would like this one. I liked every other wizard book she has written except this one. Read more
Published on 10 Aug 1999
A great book
I think this was a really great book. They described the setting and characters so well. It is imaginitive and hard to put down. Read more
Published on 31 May 1999
The best book I have ever read!!
This was possibly the best book I have ever read. It combined the oddness of the other wizardry books with that uncanny plot of underneath the ocean. Read more
Published on 28 Mar 1999
The best of a great series.
This is not only one of my favorite YA fantasies, but one of my many favorite books. The characters are believable, their responses to problems genuine, and their victories... Read more
Published on 31 Jan 1999
This book must have taken a lot of imagination!
This book is so creative! I read the first three chapters, and then I couldn't put it down! You realy get to know the characters in this book. Read more
Published on 25 Nov 1998
A gorgeous, thought-provoking, vivid read
My favorite of the Wizardry books, Deep Wizardry combines lovely prose with beautiful snatches of poetry, wound around a plot that becomes more subtle and layered with every... Read more
Published on 23 Aug 1998
Best of the series by far
At almost twenty, I picked up the So You Want To Be A Wizard series again for the third time of my life. Read more
Published on 25 Jun 1998
A Book That You Will Be Reading Long After Dark
I believe that Deep Wizardry is the best book in the wizardry series! This time Nita and Kit are faced with a serious problem-their life, or millions of other lives? Read more
Published on 16 Jan 1998
Excellent, intriguing, morally complex.
The story revolves around a deceptively simple moral dilemma - choose freely to accept a painful death, or break your promise, and thousands will die. Read more
Published on 23 Nov 1997
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