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Battle Magic, by Tamora Pierce
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NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author Tamora Pierce's long-awaited return to the magical world of Winding Circle -- now in paperback.The drums of war are beating . . .Mages Briar, Rosethorn, and Evvy are visiting the mystical mountain kingdom of Gyongxe when they are suddenly called away. The emperor of Yanjing has invited them to see his glorious gardens. During their brief stay, though, the mages see far more than splendid flowers. They see the emperor's massive army, his intense cruelty, and the devastating magic that keeps his power in place.When the mages discover the emperor's plans to invade Gyongxe, they race to protect its treasured temples. But duty, magic, and terror threaten to drive them apart. With time running out, can the mages come together to save their spiritual home?
Battle Magic, by Tamora Pierce- Amazon Sales Rank: #152130 in Books
- Brand: Pierce, Tamora
- Published on: 2015-05-26
- Released on: 2015-05-26
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.00" h x .90" w x 5.30" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 464 pages
From School Library Journal Gr 7 Up-Pierce returns to the world of the Winding Circle to relate the events that befell plant mages Briar and Rosethorn and Briar's student, stone mage Evvy, between The Will of the Empress (2005), Street Magic (2001), and Melting Stones (2007, all Scholastic). The book opens in the kingdom of Gyongxe where the trio watches shamans dancing to call forth statues from the mountainside. Soon afterward, an invitation arrives from the Emperor of Yanjing, the powerful nation that borders the mountainous, god-filled Gyongxe. They travel to the emperor's court to view his famous gardens but quickly learn that he is a cruel man who keeps slaves and punishes gardeners and plants alike for perceived failures. Evvy impulsively decides to free Parahan, an enslaved prince, and is assisted by Briar, who, as a former thief, knows how to pick a lock. In return Parahan lets them know that the emperor plans to invade Gyongxe. Rosethorn is bound by her oath as a dedicate of the Winding Circle to return to Gyongxe and warn them of the invasion, and Briar and Evvy refuse to be left behind. The emperor has thousands of troops and mages trained in battle, but the friends can call on the plants and stones and Gyongxe has its own supernatural defenders. Pierce combines wonderful characterization with unique magic, realms, and creatures to create a splendid tale.-Eric Norton, McMillan Memorial Library, Wisconsin Rapids, WIα(c) Copyright 2013. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
From Booklist Stone magic apprentice Evvy and plant mages Rosethorn and Briar are preparing to return to Emelan from a trip east exploring exotic flora when they are caught in a war between a greedy land-grasping emperor and a gentle god-king. When Rosethorn commits to defending the land of the First Circle Temple, Briar and Evvy refuse to return home without her and each must find their inner warrior mage if they are to survive. Fans of the Circle of Magic and Circle Opens series will delight in this volume, which fills in history between Street Magic (2001) and Cold Fire (2002). Pierce’s inspired world building continues to be remarkable, with stone paintings that tease those who can see them, animal variants that live inside mountains, and shamanistic rituals described to such a degree that readers will believe they have come straight from National Geographic. Though deftly integrated, this amount of background information makes for a meal rather than a snack, and sometimes the characters’ introspections are a bit repetitive. Still, this is a meal to savor. Grades 6-9. --Cindy Welch
Review Praise for BATTLE MAGIC:"Pierce combines wonderful characterization with unique magic, realms, and creatures to create a splendid tale." --SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL"Another winning companion to Pierce's highly successful Circle Quartet and Circle Opens fantasy franchises." --HORN BOOK"A satisfying, thought-provoking read." --BULLETIN OF THE CENTER FOR CHILDREN'S BOOKS
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28 of 30 people found the following review helpful. Solid addition to the canon By C. Ellwood For the first time, Tammy has messed with her own timeline. Battle Magic takes place 2 years before Melting Stones, but after the events of Street Magic. Here, Briar, Rosethorn, and Briar's student Evvy are on a tour of Gyongxe, a nation that is nearest in the world to the heavens and, therefore, home to many different faiths. They are invited to visit neighboring Yanjing, specifically to see the famed imperial gardens. There, they see the emperor's cruelty firsthand in dealing with a rosebush that had the bad fortune to succumb to mold and in a prince kept chained as a slave and the emperor's pet.From here we get to experience the war that is mentioned in passing in both Melting Stones and later in The Will of the Empress in the form of Briar's PTSD (or at least the way he deals with it after the fact). Make no mistake about it, this is war. It is bloody and cruel and entirely unrepentant. It's the darkest Tammy has gone down the violence road (though the major conflict in Lady Knight comes close), and it's certainly the most explicit of her books. She isn't gratuitous about it, but she isn't pulling any punches, either, which I appreciated. Because of this, though, it requires a slightly more mature audience. I don't want to say older, necessarily, but it wouldn't be a bad idea to make sure your child (if that's who you're shopping for) is prepared for the level of blood and guts that come with this story. True to form, the conflict in the story echoes some aspect of real world cultures/places/events, and this will seem to some very much an echo of China's aggression toward Tibet, which is something also to be mindful of if you're looking for similar subject matter or ways to tie this in with other interests.I've been critical of the latest books in this universe, and this installment is truer to Tammy's fighting form: the characters are true, the action scenes superbly written, and the description spot on. I appreciated the return to third person narrative, though the shifting narrative between the three main characters was a new trick. I will note that some of Briar's descriptions of the war in The Will of the Empress don't quite add up anymore (which bothered me), and that my imagination created many things that were worse than we saw here, which I would have liked to have seen here. However, as Tammy said in the dedication: war is hell. Deadlines are hell, too, and we could hardly have an 800-page book about Gyongxe (right? Because if we could have, I would have been on board with that). All things considered, she did a pretty good job here. Definitely a solid addition to my bookshelf and the Emelan canon at large, though not her very best work.
14 of 14 people found the following review helpful. A good take on tough topics By Gretchen @ My Life is a Notebook So, you remember how I said I was excited for this book? Immediately after I posted about it, Gretchen and I got an ARC. We were both extremely excited. But because Gretchen has more ARCs to review than I do, I get to be the one talking about it! (Which in retrospect may have been a bad idea, because I am very sleep-deprived. Bear with me.) Before I do that, here's some quick, spoiler-free context if you haven't read Tammy's Circle books:Briar started out as a child mage, orphaned and taken in by Rosethorn and her friend/lover Lark, raised alongside three foster-sisters who were also mages. They (accidentally?) did something which made them heaps stronger, which I imagine caused problems for the adults in their lives because they were like eleven. Now Briar's older, and travelling, and this book happens.I'm summing this up because I often think of the Circle books-the early ones, anyway-as aimed at a younger target audience. Things got a lot more serious in The Will of the Empress [edit: Lauren pointed out that I was referencing the wrong imperially-titled Tammy book. I swear I know what I'm talking about], but I think I've always thought of the Circle books as benign, light reading. I knew this had the potential to be a lot more serious, but I don't think I really believed it until I saw it. This is not a book for kids. She isn't pulling her punches. This is a war, and it's serious, and nobody is safe. She doesn't flinch away from any of it.So I guess what I'm saying is, just because some of the Circle books are for a younger audience and you may not have read them doesn't mean you should avoid this book. It stands on its own pretty well, and it's a good book.As always, Tammy is fantastic at setting, both physical and cultural. I loved the idea that Gyongxe is closer to the gods because of its Himalaya-like elevation. The thin air and harsh environment meld well with the grounded sort of magic that the locals practice, as well as the bucketfuls of awesome mythology (and by the way, that mythology means BUSINESS). The country is loaded to the brim with religions scrambling for space. Yanjing, too, is interesting, although it is dangerous, corrupt, and nasty. Again, I love the way culture is worked into the practice of magic-like any human activity, it is affected by context, even when you'd think it would be universal. The people of Yanjing are portrayed with compassion, and it's acknowledged that there isn't much good that many of them can do with their circumstances.The plot wanders a bit at times-there were a few things I thought would be super-important that turned out to be less so. The characters are well-rounded and interesting, although of course they're often in very compromising situations. Evvy gets some nice character development, and it's lovely to have Rosethorn's voice after all this time. Having a middle-aged voice in YA is very rare, and I think it works really well here; Rosethorn is not defined by her age, only by her character, and I think that's even MORE rare in YA.Other things in this book that I don't see often in YA:Lack of romantic relationships as major plot points. These people are lucky to get out ALIVE. The point is survival, and they are BUSY SURVIVING THANK YOU VERY MUCH. The main relationships are the ones between Evvy, Briar, and Rosethorn. It's awesome to see that in a genre dominated by first love.Open relationships AND bisexuality portrayed without judgment and, really, without much fuss at all (by the author, at least-Briar is a little queasy, but I'm sure he'll get over it)An entire book where whiteness is the exception, not the rule, pointed out and described with the same matter-of-factness that other ethnicities get. This shouldn't be surprising, but audiences will take literally any excuse to assume all your characters are white, so it's cool that steps are taken to avoid that here. I think Rosethorn may have been the only all-white character in the book, actually, at least that I can remember.So yes, this book is cool, this book kept me on my toes, and this book will delight you if you've read the Circle books and stand alone just fine if you haven't. I really enjoyed it! If you read it, come back and tell me what you thought!
21 of 24 people found the following review helpful. Not a bad book, but doesn't fit well with the previous books. By A. Amnamare Short version: if you're looking for a quick, fun read, you'll like this; if you're a Circle of Magic fan or you like to dig into a story, you'll probably find this a bit lacking.Let's get this out of the way: Battle Magic is a fun read. It's entertaining, and the world of the book is richly drawn (par for the course for the Circle books). The pace moves right along.There's something very stilted and off about the book, though. In some ways, the pace is too fast: subplots start and are over very quickly, no one stays in one place long enough to really develop the deep sense of place and character the other Circle books have, and there's no real suspense; what should be some really suspenseful subplots and moments are utterly ruined by the fact that either we the reader know nothing really bad has happened, or they get resolved in just a few pages.****SPOILERS BELOW****This book doesn't actually fit with any of the previous canon from Will of the Empress or Melting Stones about the war, so if that bothers you, consider yourself warned. It's also very ... perfunctory, when it tries to address the supposed horrors of war - tacking on a typically-happy Circle-esque ending on a book where that undermines the entire plot - and it introduces an active supernatural element that not only really doesn't fit the Circle universe, but retroactively ruins the characters of Evvy and Briar in Will of the Empress and Melting Stones. If you don't like "they all conveniently forget" endings, you really need to skip this book.The biggest problem, though, is that this book is undeniably racist. Not a single Yanjingyi (Chinese expy) person we meet, aside from the already-established character of Evvy, is even slightly redeemable; the villains are over-the-top cartoony caricatures of Yellow Peril evil, and are portrayed as so backwards they don't even get a single thing about *their own magic* correct - while of course the Western protagonists know everything about proper magic and have such super-special magic they save the day time and again, right under the Evil Asians' noses.Overall, with this book, the Circle series jumps the shark. It's moved far away from the craft-magic focus of the first eight books, and even away from the complexity and depth of Will of the Empress. It's competent, mostly, but a far cry from any of its predecessors.
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