A Wizard of Mars, by Diane Duane

Okay, I couldn't use this word in my last review without spoiling the heck out of Wizards at War, but "apotheoses." Isn't that a fantastic word? And it totally describes what happens to both Memeki and Ponch. They each had an apotheosis, so . . . apotheoses ( Read more... )

Wizards at War, by Diane Duane

Wizards at War follows immediately after the events of Wizard's Holiday. Kit and Nita return to Earth with five days left of their spring break. No sooner have they returned than Tom and Carl come by to tell them that the world -- well, the universe, actually -- is about to end ( Read more... )

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A Wizard Alone, by Diane Duane

This book has one of my favorite titles in the series. Don't get me wrong, I love the book, too, but the title is really amazing. Because all of the wizards in this book are alone.

Nita and Dairine are mourning their mother (note that I haven't reviewed A Wizard's Dilemma, the book where their mom dies. I have ( Read more... )

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High Wizardry, by Diane Duane

This is one of my favorite books in the series (I think I'm going to end up saying that about most of them).

Dairine was the first to figure out that Nita was a wizard, back in Deep Wizardry. Here, she takes the Oath on her own, and is sent, at a startlingly young age, off on her Ordeal. Which takes place not ( Read more... )

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So You Want to Be a Wizard, by Diane Duane

Thirteen-year-old Nita Callahan is a victim of bullying. One day, while attempting to elude the bullies, she runs to the local library and in the children's department she finds a book entitled, So You Want to Be a Wizard. Curious, she leafs through the book and finds that it does purport to be a book ( Read more... )