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Title: So You Want To Be a Wizard
Author: Diane Duane
Genre: YA, fantasy
Rating: 8/10
# pages: 237
Date read: February, 2008

Summary: Nita's life changes dramatically when she discvoers a library book on the art of wizardry! Taking the Oath to use the power wisely and well, she beings the long road of study to become a wizard. But first she must prove her worth - as does Kit, another young wizard-to-be who she meets. Together they cross over to a dark parallel world to search for an ancient book that holds the key to preserving the Universe.

Review: VERY different from what I'd expected. I'd expected a light-hearted, humorous book ala Handbook for Witches. What I got was a fascinating but rather dark book about two kids learning how to become wizards and in the process having to save the world from a terrible danger. At the very end of the book, Christian undertones shone through and suddenly put the book in a very different light to me.

Really good, but very dark and at times made me feel like crying. While fascinating I doubt I'll be reading the other two books in the trilogy.

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