Search - Magic Steps (The Circle Opens, Book 1)

Very good writing for a youth book. Complex plot, a bit of violence but a worthwhile read by adults as well.

The Circle of Magic Quartet continues now with The Circle Opens Quartet! Magic Steps is the first in the new series and focuses on Sandry and her young student as they try to work their magic to stop a mysterious murderer.

This is the first book in the continuing story of Sandry, Tris, Daja, and Briar. The "Circle Opens" series follows the "Circle of Magic", with the four mages growing up to be teens, dealing with apprentices and even more magic.

This book is fantastic! The way Tamora Pierce paints her world with her words is purely phenomenal. If you are going to read this book, though, be sure to read the Circle of Magic series first. Bother series are great reads. The kind of thing you never want to put down.

Tamara Pierce has created an exciting new view of the world of witches and wizards with this series of 4 books, with young teens as her main characters and their teacher/mentors as secondary charachters. Sandry in this book has magic that comes through in her weaving and she can catch light within her weave as well as other interesting things that develop as you meet in detail each child. Daja, Brian, Tris and Sandry weave very unique magic that amazes their adult mentors and baffles the wizarding community they now live in. Very good read for young teens with great imagination and curiosity in the possibility other worlds and what they might be like.