A Wizard Abroad

, #4

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Mass Market Paperback, 339 pages

English language

Published Feb. 23, 2001 by Magic Carpet Books.

ISBN:
978-0-15-216238-2
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4 stars (4 reviews)

To give Nita a vacation from magic—and to separate her from Kit, her partner in wizardry—Nita's parents pack her off for a monthlong stay with her eccentric aunt in Ireland.

But the Old World is even more steeped in magical doings than the United States, and Nita soon finds herself and a host of Irish wizards battling creatures from a nightmare Ireland—a realm where humankind is the stuff of tales and storybooks, and where the legends and monsters of Irish mythology are a deadly reality.

So much for a vacation abroad...

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4.00 Tough choice, but I have to give this four stars only. The lead-up is very nice and the Irish atmosphere and folklore comes across well - if a bit American-centric. For once the adults are not mostly useless and that's realistic given the obvious nature of the newest threat. But the last quarter with the final confrontation lacks the drama and suspense of the last three books and suffers a little from straining itself to include a character that then has nothing important to do. I did like that Kit didn't get promoted to love interest though - no matter what the parents think.

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Subjects

  • Wizards -- Fiction.
  • Fantasy.
  • Ireland -- Fiction.