Name: The Magicians' Guild
Rating: 3.843373493975903 (83 reviews)
ISBN: 9781841493138

Trudi Canavan

The Magicians' Guild

Each year the magicians of Imardin gather together to purge the city streets of vagrants, urchins and miscreants. Masters of the disciplines of magic, they know that no one can oppose them. But their protective shield is not as impenetrable as they believe. Sonea, angry, frustrated and outraged by the treatment of her family and friends, hurls a stone at the shield, putting all her rage behind it. To the amazement of all who bear witness, the stone passes unhindered through the barrier and renders a magician unconscious. The guild's worst fear has been realised . . . There is an untrained magician loose on the streets. She must be found before her uncontrolled powers unleash forces that will destroy both her, and the city that is her home.

The Magician's Guild

Ofelia

Era da tanto che non mi accadeva più, ma finalmente una volta finito di leggere questo libro il mio primo pensiero è stato.. devo avere il seguito. 
La storia parte un pò a rilento, un pò troppo a rilento forse dato che finchè Sonea non viene catturata dai Maghi si ripetono sempre le stesse cose (scappa di qua, scappa di là, nasconditi, ecc) ma una volta nella Corporazione la storia prende letteralmente vita. 
I personaggi descritti sono interessanti, tanto da far venire voglia di sapere di più sul loro conto, l'unica che non mi ha convinto è proprio Sonea che mi è sembrata sempre piuttosto piatta e non mi ha dato l'impressione di maturare per niente alla fine del libro. Oltretutto la bambina povera che è naturalmente più potente di ogni mago (potendo anche di quelli che hanno alle spalle anni ed anni di studio) non è facile da mandare giù e sa molto di complesso da Mary-sue (i protagonisti "normali" e umani non riescono mai a farli eh? devono sempre essere perfetti in un modo o nell'altro). 
L'inizio di una trilogia davvero interessante, scritta bene e che merita di essere letta.

Tom Turner

This book has been on my radar probably ever since it was first published, and on my shelf for about half that time too. The story is fairly simple, and there's definitely room for fleshing out the characters, but the way I've looked at it is I've just finished the first third of a compete story. So, these failings are forgivable. What got me hooked though, and the reason I will keep reading are two things. Firstly, the relationships between the main set of characters were special, something you could really believe in, even if you didn't know those characters as well as you could. The second is that, there were enough seeds scattered for future plot developments, that despite one arc having finished, there's enough intrigue to urge me to continue. I believe the second two books are improvements in the first, and personally I'm looking forward to finding out if that is the case!

Kathrine Wiberg

Caught up in a confrontation between the hated Guild magicians and the angry youth of the slums, to her dismay Sonea discovers that she possesses the same powers as the reviled magicians. to avoid capture, she must seek protection from the city's feared underworld, the thieves. In return she must use her powers for them, but her magic never seems to do quite what she intends it to... From a new author who has already made her mark on the Australian fantasy scene winning this year's Aurealis Award for Best Fantasy Short Story, Canavan's first novel is full of wonderful characters, intrigue, deceitful warlocks, secret catacombs and uncontrollable magic.

Sonny Woods

Christopher McCabe

"We should expect this young woman to be more powerful than our average novice, possibly even more powerful than the average magician." This year, like every other, the magicians of Imardin gather to purge the city of undesirables. Cloaked in the protection of their sorcery, they move with no fear of the vagrants and miscreants who despise them and their work—until one enraged girl, barely more than a child, hurls a stone at the hated invaders . . . and effortlessly penetrates their magical shield. What the Magicians' Guild has long dreaded has finally come to pass. There is someone outside their ranks who possesses a raw power beyond imagining, an untrained mage who must be found and schooled before she destroys herself and her city with a force she cannot yet control.

The Magicians' Guild

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