Wild Magic by Tamora Pierce
The story ended off in a joyous mood as all her friends showed their love
by asking her to live and stay by them. Daine was overwhelmed by her friends’
love for her and accepted the offers gratefully.
Due to her shameful past, she never told her friends about her background until she finally picked up her courage to do so. Throughout the journey to the Rider’s castle, she made friends with Numair the Mage, Alanna the Lioness, the King and Queen themselves and a lot more others. Her friends helped her to find new strength in herself, develop her precious wild magic inside her, which she never discovered before. With this magic, she saved her friends from death several times learned how to heal animals with it. She fought with stormwings, ribid bear and gained all sorts of experience.
QUOTE:
“Daine’s mind
filled with vines of sparkling light wrapped in darkness- or was it the
other way round? When the space between her eyes was full, the magic spilled
out of her.”
SETTING
fantasy world
of Tortall
The setting
is of an amazing place which is created through imagination by the author.
This place features lots of exciting and wonderful places which includes
The City of the God's which is the oldest and best place for the teaching
of magic in Tortall, due to the magical aura that surrounds the city for
miles and Snowsdale, the little mountain village that used to be home to
Daine, Sarra and her Grandfather, before she came to Tortall with Onua
as the housemistress's assistant.
The places are magical which stirs up the reader’s emotions while reading the book and carries the reader along as the story goes on. The setting fits neatly into the plot as they are both closely-related to fantasy and creates a “home” for the plot to progress and then end on a joyous mood.
ABOUT
THE AUTHOR
Tamora Pierce
was born on December 13, 1954 and moved around a lot as a child. Her and
her family spent 6 years in the Francisco Bay Area and the rest in Fayette
County, in Western Pennsylvania.
It was her Dad who started her off writing, when she was in the sixth grade. By the time she was in seventh grade, her parents had divorced and she was hooked on writing. As well as her own fiction, Tamora also wrote poetry, plays and comedies. As she grew older she put her writing aside and filled the gap by writing articles for the school paper.
When she left school she studied psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, and working part time and in the summer, usually in jobs that would help a career in social work.
Then in the summer before her junior year she wrote her first short story, since tenth grade. A year later, she had sold her first short story. As a result of this in her senior year, Tamora took up a writing course. Her writing teacher, David Bradley, suggested she tackled a novel. Whilst looking for a subject, she remembered the ideas which has resulted in stories when she was younger - teenage heroines. And so, she began her first sword and sorcery novel.
Instead of finishing her psychology degree, Tamora drifted through rent paying jobs, until her Father and Stepmother invited her to go and live with them in Idaho. There she worked as a housemother in a group home for teenaged girls. At this time she was sending out a 732 page novel called 'Song of the Lioness'. But the director of the home thought parts of it were inappropriate so she edited it and told Alanna's story to her girls.
Later on, Tamora moved to Manhattan, to get a publishing career started. Her agent suggested she turned the novel into four books for children. When Jean Karl, at Atheneum books saw the manuscript she agreed to take her on.
Whilst Tamora was rewriting Alanna's story, she worked as a secretary and helped to start a radio comedy and production company. She wrote, directed and acted there and also met an actor/video maker called Tim Liebe. He asked her to marry him in front of the audience and she said "yes". Soon after, he started his own writing career and now is a regular contributor to paper and online magazines.
She lives with her husband, her three cats (Scrap, Vinnie, Ferret), two budgies (Zorak and the Junior Birdman) plus any other animals rescued from the park.
Tamora says in her Biography she leads a hectic life but writing has it's rewards: books, traveling to new places and getting letters from people which tell her now her books make a difference for someone.
STYLE
OF WRITING
The language
of the book also provides vivid imaginations in the mind and still leaves
endless room for your imagination to expand Weather Daine can discover
and make full use of her wild magic or not creates an air of suspense which
urges readers to carry on.
MOOD
AND ATMOSPHERE
The
mood of the book differs greatly from time to time. Whenever trouble is
near, the tension slowly builds up and prepares the reader for the excitement
and thrills. However, there are also many light-hearted moments when all
the friends get together and get to understand each other better.The bond
between them thickens and it is then when the atmosphere of the story becomes
relaxing and joyous.
CHARACTERS
The fascinating
creatures existing in the book came in forms and characters of all varieties
that made the book really interesting to read. Numair the Mage, Alanna
the Lioness, the King and Queen themselves and a lot more others
helped Daine to find new strength in herself, develop her precious wild
magic inside her, which she never discovered before. Daine herself is overflowing
with the wild magic inside her and the power so owned are fascinating and
beautiful.