Brenda's Book Report Number One

Books, amazing books. The splendorous and wondrous books, with inviting covers and soft pages.

Dream filled stories and heart wrenching endings. Smiles, tears. All can be found within a book, you

just have to choose the right one. This particular book was quite a good choice. Wild Magic, by Tamora

Pierce, the first book of the Immortals quartet. Returning to familiar, loved characters, and the magical

realm of Tortall that is the home of the lovable Daine, brilliant Numair, and magical Allana. I read this

book a few years ago, after a friend gave them to me. I have to say, I'm very glad I did.

Verilidaine Sarrasri, named Sarrasri because she never knew her father, and also known as Daine, has

always had a 'knack' with animals. A little more then a knack, it turns out, when the knack turns to wild

magic. In the first book in the quartet, after her village was destroyed by bandits, Daine finds herself

without a home, and alone except for her pony, Cloud. In a fair, she meets Onua Chamtong, a K'miri,

and the horsemistress for the Queen's Riders in Tortall. After making an enemy of a the queen of a the

queen of a tribe of monsters called Stormwings, Daine meets Numair, Allana, and the rest of the riders.

In the summer trip, she goes to Allana's fief, Pirate's Swoop, and ends up fighting off a siege of

Stormwings, and Carthaki raiders. After, she meets, and adopts, a baby dragon called Skysong,

nicknamed Kitten. In the end of it all, Daine goes from having no home, to a few more then she needs,

with even more friends.

The main character, Daine, is a delightful and adorable person, thoroughly confused by Tortall and all

it's strangeness, and different customs, and, most of all, by the ready acceptance that awaited her there,

after she had been cast out of the village she had grown up in.

All in all, I think it's an amazing book, with delightfully charming characters, a tantalizing plot, and

delectably horrible monsters. Just as breathtaking, and enjoyable, as any other of the other books that

Tamora Pierce writes.