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    Wild Magic
    Wild Magic
    Wild Magic
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    Wild Magic

    Written by Tamora Pierce

    Narrated by Tamora Pierce and Full Cast

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    About this audiobook

    When Daine comes down from the mountains, she carries with her two things: a dark secret about her own past, and a strangely powerful magic that even she doesn't understand.

    Soon Daine has a job working for Onua, the queen's horsemistress, who is astonished at the girl's way with animals. It's almost as if she can speak to them....

    Daine and Onua travel to Pirate's Swoop, where Daine finds herself swept into a war that threatens all of Tortall, a war where magic is one of the main weapons.

    The wall between the worlds is cracking.

    The magical creatures are returning.

    Now Daine must master her own magic, and face her own dark memories, if she is to save her new home from destruction.

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    ©1992 Tamora Pierce; (P)2005 Full Cast Audio

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherFull Cast Audio
    Release dateJan 1, 2005
    ISBN9781933322384
    Author

    Tamora Pierce

    Beloved author Tamora Pierce has written a great number of books, including the Song of the Lioness quartet, The Immortals quartet, the Circle of Magic quartet, the Protector of the Small quartet, The Circle Opens quartet, the Trickster series, The Will of the Empress, Melting Stones, the Beka Cooper series, and The Numair Chronicles. She lives in upstate New York with various cats, other four-legged animals, and birds who feed in her yard, and can be e-visited at Tamora-Pierce.net.

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    What our readers think

    Readers find this title to be a fantastic adventure with magic, good overcoming evil, and larger-than-life characters. The story is enjoyable and can be listened to on audio with a full cast. The fantasy world created by Tamora Pierce is highly praised and revisited by readers. The book is described as a sweet story with a protagonist who can talk to animals and finds friendship and acceptance. Overall, this beautifully crafted fantasy adventure is loved by readers of all ages.

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    • 5/5

      Apr 16, 2024

      I have been lucky lately to have come across some unbelievably good stories, and I'm pleased to add this one to that list. This beautifully crafted fantasy adventure is an easy to listen to story for the whole family, with characters that you can't help but love!
    • 2/5

      Apr 16, 2024

      After raiders destroy her happy village, a young peasant girl named Daine joins up with the Queen's Own hostler. They travel to Tortall, having dangerous adventures along the way. Once in Tortall, Daine discovers she has Wild Magic, which enables her to communicate and control all animals. Despite the many attacks by monsters, this book lacks any narrative tension, probably because I actively dislike Daine.
    • 5/5

      Apr 16, 2024

      Tamora Pierces’ Tortal is the best fantasy world ever! I revisit her books over and over again with absolutely delight! No matter what is going on in my life these books contain knowledge that helps me through the characters experiences.
    • 4/5

      Apr 16, 2024

      I really enjoyed this one. This was a fun one to listen on audio with full cast characters.
    • 5/5

      Apr 16, 2024

      I liked the way Dane could talk to the animals also the way the animals would rush to protect her when she was in danger. And the way she made friends who also helped her come to terms with her wild magic.
    • 5/5

      Apr 16, 2024

      Daine Sarrasri, an orphan girl from Snowsdale, arrives in the magical kingdom of Tortall and becomes assistant to the royal horsemistress. Her gift for calming horses is almost magical, even though Daine tries to hide it. As well as horses, all animals seem to understand Daine as she seems to understand them. They come to her when injured, scared or ill.Daine communicates and trusts animals better than she trusts humans, it seems. She was run out of her village after her family was killed by raiders when she was thirteen. She discovers that she has an ability to speak to animals with her mind. Now she has to trust her new human friends enough for them to help her control her magic before war breaks out in Tortall. Even though this is a young adult fantasy novel, I loved Wild Magic and give it an A+!
    • 5/5

      Apr 16, 2024

      Love all of Tamora's books. Daine and her wild magic and her connection to animals is a wonderful story
    • 5/5

      Apr 16, 2024

      This is one of my most favorite books of all time! I've bought this book twice, the first time which was fantastic! The second not so much because I had read the first so many times it just up and fell apart on me - something I have never done before.

      The story of Daine just grabs me up from the very first sentence and no matter what I do I can't bring myself to put it down. It is my inspiration, something to bring me up when I am down, and everything in between. Reading this book makes me want to right something equally amazing as well as read more and more. Daine is headstrong, speaks to animals, and makes friends of which I envy her of so I am very happy that I can live in the world she does for even a fraction of my time. I can't help but wish for Tamora Pierce to write many more books so I can live in that world with them more often with new adventures.

      GO DAINE!
    • 4/5

      Apr 16, 2024

      Very sweet story. I enjoyed it quite a bit.
    • 5/5

      Apr 16, 2024

      The audiobook was absolutely wonderful. I read this book years ago and listening to it with the full cast was awesome.
    • 5/5

      Apr 16, 2024

      Fantastic, what can i say, i just love adventure stories with magic, good overcoming evil and characters which are larger than life. Enjoyed every moment of the story and best of all there are more stories to read.
    • 5/5

      Dec 27, 2024

      Tamora Pierce's Tortall universe is a place that I can keep coming back to to re-read. This time enjoyed with my daughter in both print & audio.
    • 4/5

      Jul 31, 2024

      This book was surprisingly good :) It started out a little stiff. The pace picking up as I went. The world building was pretty solid; I love Daine, though I do tend to picture her differently from the cover model.

      You know a book fits into high fantasy when it has a map at the front of it. Daine is thirteen, and alone. HEr and her horse, Cloud, are searching for their next home. Enter, Onua, A K'mir who instantly takes a liking to Daine.

      I can't wait to see what they will get up to next.
    • 3/5

      Jan 2, 2024

      I liked this book, but it was not brilliant. The story is relatively simple, a bit childish I'd say, but entertaining.
    • 4/5

      Dec 30, 2022

      I have been reading the books I loved as a child & it never ceases to amaze me how different they are in my adult eyes.
      I still enjoyed the story and the world (type of magic etc).
      The writing was very simple (obviously for younger audience).
      Strong female characters (which I idolized as a child).
      The difference now for me is the animal component - as a vegan I was surprised that Daine still hunted killed and ate animals despite being so close to them and an obvious animal lover (she warned the wolves away so they wouldn't be killed but asked the fish to go on her hooks??) which seemed a little hypocritical to me...
      I also remember from the later books the eventual love interest which was a bit shocking/creepy for me since she is only 13 in this one...
      But it's still a series id recommend for my daughters
    • 2/5

      Jan 17, 2022

      This book goes again to the, to put it somehow, childish adventure.

      The main character is a 12 years old girl with strong wild magic, a mysterious father, and a nick to find herself in the middle of huge problems.

      I really like Daine's character, she is honest and fair, she is sincere and small, she is afraid and valiant, she is smart but uncultured. She is a good hero.
    • 4/5

      Aug 9, 2021

      A fun, "old-fashioned" (i.e, like the fantasy books I read as a child in the 1970s) fantasy. Who wouldn't want to be able to talk to animals?
    • 5/5

      Jul 26, 2021

      This book about a 13 year old girl, is an engaging book for the girl that likes fantasy and adventure. And it will hook the boys too! I enjoyed reading this a second time. I especially as a teacher enjoyed the hook in the epilogue that will catch the kids and get them to read another book! If you are looking for a coming of age, I'm not sure of myself, fantasy, adventure book this is it. Many kids will identify with Daine as she goes about learning about herself and the world. It will also give kids a look into the lives of adults that care and how the assumptions of the kids can often be wrong and prevent them from getting the help from an adult they may desperately want.
    • 5/5

      Nov 12, 2021

      Oh my Goddess.

      Tamora Pierce has always been one of those authors who whenever her name came up I felt a vague tugging like I was missing out on something that would be a Really, Really Big Deal to me, so to have that confirmed in such an immediate, overpowering way upon reading my first book by her is stirring feelings I don't quite have words for.

      I have always wanted more fantasy (especially magic-focused fantasy) in my library, but the few times I've tried to get into fantasy I've been recommended epics with thick plots and paper-thin characters, and like... there's a REASON I think Lord of the Rings makes much better movies than it does books, y'all! So to have something THIS exactly what I'm looking for fall into my lap is really something else.

      The way this book approaches magic is perfect, both in terms of how it mechanically works/feels AND in the way the ethics around it are presented. I would not be even slightly surprised if Pierce were a practicing Witch or some other kind of magic-user. Daine is a wonderful protagonist who is realistically struggling with some trauma and who isn't always perfect, but is surrounded by people who grow very quickly to care very much about her and very much want her to be okay and will go to great effort to help make sure she's in a space where that can happen, while ALSO recognizing her own value and not patronizing her, letting HER help THEM when she's able to, and it's just... it's just...! It's just SO. GOOD. It's just everything I want to see in the world in the form of a really good story and I love it so much.

      (... shameful personal aside: I was definitely a lot more horny for Zhaneh Bitterclaws than I was supposed to be. I'm sorry! Her taunts are just so choice, and so dommy.)

      So, yeah. This is something of a beginning for me because I just KNOW I'm going to devour the rest of her bibliography and love every second of it, and instead of being irritated that I missed the boat for so long I'll instead choose to be excited that A) I HAVE SO MUCH OF HER STUFF TO READ I'm like never gonna run out, and B) I have someone to gush about it to along the way!!
    • 5/5

      Mar 28, 2020

      This is my first Tamora Pierce novel and WHY DID IT TAKE ME SO LONG TO READ HER? I loved this book so much!
    • 4/5

      Feb 17, 2020

      Excellent, just like the others.
    • 4/5

      Feb 6, 2019

      I needed to go back to tortall this was just the ticket
    • 3/5

      Sep 22, 2018

      I recently reread the Immortals quartet after what was probably a five or six year break. What surprised me the most about Wild Magic is that it was clearly for middle-grade readers, which is what I was when I began reading them.

      The quality of writing, however--and for that matter, of the story and of the characters as well--has not diminished. I may have been able to whip through each of the Immortals' installments, but I was still very impressed with the structure of the story and the fullness of each character. I found myself sympathizing with Daine, the main character, as she struggled to adjust to her new life. I fell in love with the supporting characters as well--everyone from Cloud and Tahoi to Numair and Kalasin. (And, of course, Alanna.)

    • 5/5

      May 31, 2016

      As you can see by the speed at which I finished this book, (less than 24 hours) it is quite a capturing tale. It's most obvious appeal to me is Daine's ability to communicate with animals. I just love all the characters in this book, they're all so easy to connect to.
    • 3/5

      Oct 23, 2014

      In the first book in this series, Daine, a 13 year old girl is capable of communicating with animals. Although this sounds interesting, the way the author handled it was more annoying than anything else. Daine is an orphan, who is trying to develop her skills while a war is going on. In her journeys, she becomes an apprentice to a mage, who helps her develop her magical skills. Using her skills, Daine senses new beings known as immortals trying to break into her world. Her and her friends now must fight these immortals and defend their world.

      I liked the general concept of this novel, but there was also a lot not to like. For one is the dialogue, which I found to be subpar. Another is the characters, which generally speaking I didn’t find very appealing. At the top of the list is Daine herself, who comes off as whiny and not particularly interesting. The plot and action were pretty solid. This was only a so-so novel, not something that would get me excited about reading additional installments.

      Carl Alves – author of Blood Street
    • 5/5

      Jul 10, 2013

      This is possibly my favorite Tamora Pierce book. It is so full of laugh-out-loud humor and brings back all the familiar characters you loved in the first series. Daine is someone you want to be friends with the entire book and along with all the old characters from the Alanna series making appearances, I loved the newer ones too. An excellent summer read!!!
    • 4/5

      Mar 31, 2013

      Read the book multiple times and just listened to the Full Cast Audio production - both are highly enjoyable.
    • 4/5

      Mar 30, 2013

      When I'm dog tired and distracted, this is my kind of escapist fiction. Sometimes you just had a long week. You met all the obligations on the list and for some reason it was a long list, and you're fighting some sort of a minor virus and mostly winning, and those new shoes are needing to break in a little more than you thought so now your feet hurt a bit and all the batteries in all the battery operated things chose now to run out, and apparently the drivers had a bad case of Friday afternoon lunacy and were pulling out in front of you and stopping for no damn reason and then honking at you as if it were your fault, and there's no damn milk in the fridge!!! and so it goes. You are just a bit worn and a bit ready to be in a big soft chair with a nice cold drink and something to read that isn't going to be all that demanding because you've had enough demands just now thank you very much. But at the same time, please don't insult my intelligence. Please don't be mean spirited and stupid and tawdry. Ahhh Tamora Pierce, welcome to my tension headache, and thank you very much.
    • 3/5

      Jan 22, 2013

      While this is not an expertly crafted story, it is a pretty children's tale. I enjoyed its whimsical nature. I would definitely recommend it to anyone.
    • 1/5

      Nov 7, 2012

      Such a disappointment! I don’t even have the heart to write a decent review, and believe me when I say I’m hurting inside---this was my first Tamora Pierce book and I had such high expectations, but the poor darlings came all tumbling down as the story progressed. I just couldn’t get into it. It’s… it’s all over the place, to the point that I had no idea whatsoever of what, who, when, where… I just---I just---it’s not for me.