Magician's ward

by Patricia C. Wrede

288 pages

English language

Published Jan. 4, 1997 by TOR.

ISBN:: 978-0-312-85369-3

(6 reviews)

When Mairelon made Kim his ward, he promised to teach her to be a lady and a magician. But magic proves to be harder than it looks for a girl who has just learned to read, and being a lady is even harder. Before frustration - and Merrill's formidably correct aunt - can drive her mad, a mysterious gentleman attempts to burgle the Merrill town house. As disaster strikes Mairelon, Kim must negotiate the hazards of London society, aided by a London moneylender, a Russian wizard prince, seven legendary French wizards...and Mairelon's charmingly eccentric mother.

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3 stars

3.25 Not a bad book per se, but the facility of the romance B-plot really sours it on me. Wrede does seem to like to bundle her characters off into heteronormative relationships quickly, but it in this case - with a formerly non-conforming main character - it was just too much. The actual plot is quite interesting and does manage to surprise, but that and the rest of the characters can't save the the novel from mediocrity I feel. The previous volume was much more fun. Even if there are some hints of screwball comedy in this one, they remain merest hints.