Book Blog day .....................The Black Magician Trilogy
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Book blog day boo yah.
As you should know Tuesdays is book blog day were we talk anything
and everything and pretty much run with it. Today's blog is a triple
whammy........ The Black Magician Trilogy by Trudi Canavan
Book One:
The Magicians Guild
The Magicians Guild is
the first of the Black Magician Trilogy and was published in 2001,
Followed by The Novice (2002) and The Black Magician (2003). The
story starts with a young Slum Dweller named Sonea as she discovers
her magical potential after throwing a stone through a magical
barrier. Going in the run Sonea has to deal with both the magicians
guild after her and the growing chaos that is her loosing control of
her power. After being found by Lord Rothen and helped achieve
control, Sonea must face a difficult trial for both entrance to the
Guild and Mentorship between Rothen and the sinister looking Fergun.
Canavan stated on her
website that the initial inspiration which ended up being part of the
first chapter came form her watching a documentary of the 1992
Olympic Games in Barcelona where a report about the government taking
the host cities homeless and sending them to other cities/towns.
Later that night she saw herself and several others being herded out
of a city...by magicians hence the first chapter.
Now when I first found
the book I was in a Waterstones (Well known British bookstore)
mindlessly looking....wasn't even expecting to buy a book and I came
across The Magicians Guild. Finding the blurb interesting I bought it
and after reading it I fell in love and I ended up rushing to buy the
other two books. Hearing the influence of the first chapter reminded
me of the influence Susanne Collins the writer of the Hunger games
series had of flicking through channels and hearing two different
news posts.
Book Two:
The Novice
The second Book in the
Trilogy The Novice was published in 2002 and is followed by The Black
Magician (2003). the continuing story follows Sonea through entering
the guild and after experiencing abuse from her fellow students and
having her guardianship changed from Rothen to the High Lord Akkarin.
After beating a bully in a duel, Sonea is faced with an unknowing
future under her serious and strange guardian.
I loved the second
book especially How Sonea dealt with the class abuse form the other
students and the threat of the high lord Akkarin after he finds out
she knows his dirty little secret. And I especially loved Sonea
defeating her bully in a duel showing both the bully and the guild
she wasn't to be messed with especially since she took a lot of hell
from most if not all of them.
Book
Three: The High Lord
Released in 2003 The
High Lord is the penultimate ending to Sonea's story......starting a
year after beating a bully in a fight. Sonea has received the respect
she deserves but still faces the challenge of her guardian and the
High Lord of the guild Akkarin. After being Surprised by Akkarin with
a book on Black Magic Sonea is pulled into learning black magic and
attempting to protect the city and the country from a group known as
the Icani. After going through hell and being thrown out of the guild
and being exiled the pair return and aid their fellow magicians in
the attack......resulting in may magicians dead including Akkarin and
Sonea pregnant with his child.
My opinion of this
book was that of a decent conclusion to a good storyline. I do think
however that the love storyline between Sonea and Akkarin is a little
cliché. Otherwise It was a decent book. I have to admit the fighting
between magicians would make a decent movie montage.
Born in Kew, Melbourne
Australia on October 23rd 1969 Trudi Canavan spent her
formative years being extremely creative in the suburb of Ferntree
Gully. Canavan decided to become a professional artist and went to
the Melbourne college of Decoration achieving an advanced certificate
in promotional display as well as an award for the highest aggregate
mark in art subjects in 1988.
During the early
1990's Canavan worked for the Australian magazine Aurealis (a
magazine for Australian science-fiction and fantasy work) as well as
starting her own business The Telltale art which specialised in
graphical design services. By working for Aurealis Canavan was able
to write in her spare time.
In 1999 Canavan
managed to win the Aurealis award for best fantasy short story with
whispers of the mist children and cementing her work further with the
release of the Magicians Guild in 2001 (book one of The Black
Magician trilogy) the successive books The Novice (2002) and The
Black Magician (2003) brought Canavan both widespread acclaim and
nominations for both the Aurealis best Fantasy novel and Best Novel
Ditmar Category. All three books ended up in the top ten Science
Fiction books for Australia.
Canavan's second
Trilogy Age of Five was also well received with the first book
reaching No3 in the Sunday Times hardback fiction best sellers list
and staying in the top ten for six weeks. Canavan went on to write a
prequel/sequel to the black magician trilogy known as the magicians
apprentice in 2009 this was followed by the traitor spy trilogy which
was released between 2010 and 2012. Trudi Canavan now holds a vast
array of written works under her belt which can be split into three
book series and a group of short stories.
My opinion of Trudi
Canavan is that she is a very dedicated writer. Excellent with detail
and writing a strong character and story. I definitely respect her
work ethic since she is both a writer and a graphic designer. I
definitely would love to talk with her and have a discussion about
books and writing in general. She is up there with Prof J. R. R.
Tolkien, George R. R. Martin and Lewis Carroll in my books.
And there you have it a
book for all the ages, definitely under the banner of Quality
reading, I am positive this trilogy could end up being the NEXT it
thing if they were ever made into a Movie Trilogy. So we'll be
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