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	• Wild Magic (The Immortals) Tamora Pierce Full Cast Audio, 2005 - 1 pages average customer review:based on 274 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Wonderful Story

I read this before I read the other series (Song of the Lioness)so I really had no background info on the setting. The plot is intriguing and the details back it worthwhile.

I read this book a long long time ago

I first read this book a long time ago in middle school and I still have the full series both Lioness and the Immortals they are no joke bound with duck tape because over the last 11 years or so I have read them soo many times that they are indeed falling apart and I just had to replace my In the Realm of the Gods copy because half the book fell out. Once my kids get a little bit bigger these books will be read to them and I hope that when they get even older that they will pick up these books and read them over and over again like I did!

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Veralidaine Sarrasri--Daine to everyone who knows her--is thirteen years old, orphaned, and without a home. Her amazing rapport with animals gets her a job with a horsemaster named Onua, and the two women become fast companions during their arduous journey from Daine's homeland of Galla to the kingdom of Tortall, where they are to deliver their equine charges to the service of the Queen's Riders.

Along the way, Daine's gift for communicating with animals becomes more and more apparent, and when she alerts Onua to the approach of dangerous Immortals known as Stormwings, who feed off of fear and death, her talent can no longer be ignored. It is revealed that, while she does not have the magical Gift required to become a sorcerer, she does have a rarer form known as wild magic that connects her to the animals around her.

Under the auspices of one of the most powerful mages in the country, Daine begins to strengthen her natural affinity, but she's haunted by a past she won't share with anyone, and a secret fear that if she uses too much of her power to communicate with animals, even for the good of those around her, she might find herself losing her own humanity.

In the eyes of the Tortallan nobles, her training is of great importance in the ongoing effort to protect the kingdom against the vicious Immortals who have begun appearing out of nowhere in the last few years.

Pierce has once again delivered a plucky heroine that girls young and old can ally with. Daine's no-nonsense attitude, coupled with her naïve fascination for the way in which business is conducted in Tortall, make her a completely likable character. For an experienced author, returning to an old fictional world and attempting to see it through new eyes can be difficult, but it also has manifold pleasures for both the writer and the reader.

In this first book of THE IMMORTALS QUARTET, Tamora Pierce returns to the world her LIONESS QUARTET first popularized, and fans of Alanna, Tortall's first female knight, will be pleased to see their favorite lady heroine appear in print once more, but this time as a secondary character to another young girl with the potential to become a strong woman in her own right.

Reviewed by: Candace Cunard

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Wildlife magic

Book 1 in the Immortals series
This starts a new series for TP where Daine is the main character (although don't worry as Alanna, George and Jonathan will feature!).
This book is set several years after the first TP series and Thayet has had time to set up the Queen's Riders and make it possible for everyone to go to school.
Daine is from Galla, a neighbouring country, and travels to Tortall with her pony Cloud to seek work after the loss of her family. She is fortunate to be quickly discovered and taken up by the Riders and along the way discovers more about herself as well as about animals and birds and other people.
A nice setup for the new series, the passage of time has allowed lots of things to change without having to explain how they happenned. In some ways an easier character to relate to for young girls who are not so tomboyish, although less real-life possibilities as Daine quickly becomes the magelet with the wildlife magic - a great fantasy.
Suitable for reading without having read the Song of the Lioness quartet but nicey follows on for TP fans.

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Great series for young girls

I first read Wild Magic and the other three books in the series when I was much younger, but I love to reread them now and again because they're a classic for me. Tamora Pierce crafted wonderful characters, including a host of strong female characters who can serve as good role models for young girls. I highly recommend this book for any fantasy-oriented teens. It has magic, adventure, and romance. Also, it sets up better models of relationships than Twilight, and the characters are much more realistic.

This first volume of the Immortals Quartet tells the adventures of Daine, a young girl on the edge of discovering her own magic-- and her powerful and strange connection to the animal world.

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