High Wizardry by Diane Duane

[meganbmoore]

In general, this book seems to be the least popular of Duane’s Young Wizards series. In some ways, I can understand that. Not only is the main character, Dairine, smarter and more powerful than the main characters of the series, but she comes into her powers more quickly, gets a solo adventure, a different type of magic, etc. Despite this, I still

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[booster17]

The general rule of thumb is younger = more powerful. So Darine can get away with things like that more. To me, it's still playing by the verse's own rules, so I happily go along with it.

Looking forward to seeing your take on The Book of Night With Moon which is same universe, different characters.

[meganbmoore]

Yeah, it fits with how she's written things so far, so I'm not really bothered by it, outside of the fact that characters in general are extremely powerful, here.

[tarigwaemir]

I liked Dairine a lot too, despite her prodigy status. I guess I sympathized with her tendency to brattiness; I was a brat too at that age. ^_^

[meganbmoore]

She's bratty, but in an easy-to-understand way, and not ususually so.

[dropsofviolet]

It's actually quite interesting to see as Dairine becomes less powerful over time (since this book sets up that youth = power I hope that's not really a spoiler for you). She has a lot of trouble dealing with it, really, and it causes a lot of problems. So the first go-round I didn't like it much either, but viewing it from the (current) end of the series it makes more sense.