Reader Review1: The Wizard Heir

The Wizard Heir is a story from a series of books written by author Cinda Williams China. The Wizard Heir is the third book in the installment in which I would highly recommend to fantasy readers. These stories take place in a fairly flexible timeline. It is presumably modern times. In this universe there are two different types of people living on Earth. Weir, and Anaweir. They are defined by a type of “stone” they are born with. Anaweir are the powerless. They don’t even perceive the mysticism around them. Essentially they are normal everyday people. The Weir, however, are people born with stones. They include groups such as Wizards, Seers, Warriors, and Enchanters, among others. In the past novels there has been an obvious divide between all the other guilds, and the Wizards. The Wizards, being the most powerful of all the other Weir guilds, have sort of put themselves at the top of the hierarchy they themselves created. So the plot, from what I’ve gathered from the first part of this story, is that the heroes(Who are all in high-school), two warriors(Jack and Ellen), an orphan Wizard(Seph McCauly), and a few others are going to try and change the covenant, which is essentially the magical rule book, held by the corrupted Wizards. The leader of these Wizards is a man named Gregory Licestor, who runs an all boy school designed to receive troubled teens to it, because usually untrained wizards are seen by the anaweir as delinquents, Seph was one of those students. Leicester gets his power by using old magic to bond these students who are wizards to him, in a sort of magical collection. They all share each other’s power. Seph is more powerful than all of the wizards Leicester has linked, however, but hasn’t been trained to control it. After a while of being in Leicester’s school Seph escapes and flees to a sanctuary(a city in which attack magic isn’t allowed) with Linda Downey, Jack’s aunt, and Seph’s legal guardian. Once there the wizards who work for Leicester are working on trying to get Seph to come out of the town because they can’t force him out while he’s inside the borders.

            This book is a relatively high tempo story that doesn’t leave much time for relaxation. There’s always something big happening and you have to be on your toes to know what is going to happen next. It’s a great read.