High Wizardry

, #3

Mass Market Paperback, 338 pages

English language

Published Feb. 23, 1997 by Magic Carpet Books.

ISBN:
978-0-15-216244-3
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4 stars (4 reviews)

Young wizards Nita and Kit face their most terrifying challenge yet: Nita's bratty little sister, Dairine. Not only is Dairine far too smart for an eleven-year-old, she also has recently become a wizard, and worse yet, a wizard with almost limitless power. When Dairine's computerized wizard's manual glibly sends her off on her novice adventure—her Ordeal—Kit and Nita end up chasing her across the galaxy, trying to catch up with Dairine before she gets into trouble so deep that not even her brains can rescue her.

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reviewed High Wizardry by Diane Duane (Young Wizards, #3)

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5 stars

4.5 Really good continuation of the series that should make all little sisters happy with a role model that doesn't fit easy pigeon-holes. As always moral questions are not brushed away or overs-simplified, but there of course it's still a YA novel. This one was not quite as evocative and enchanting for me as the first two, but the final frontier has its own charms. There are a couple of minor quibbles I have with it (like a glossed-over panicked killing) and a bit more deus-ex-machina than usual, but the enchanted computer as an ersatz spellbook is ingenious (especially for the late eighties) and the imaginative story-telling takes off from there.

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Subjects

  • Wizards -- Fiction.
  • Computers -- Fiction.
  • Science fiction.
  • Fantasy.