Book Title: Street Magic
Author: Tamora Pierce
My rating of the book, F- [worst] to A [best].: A +
Short description/summary of the book: It's been four years since Briar Moss began his training as a plant mage, but he still hasn't put his past behind him.

Wandering through a Chammuri market, Briar comes across a street girl using powerful magic to polish stones for a merchant. The ragged girl reminds Briar of the life he led before he left for Winding Circle. He resolves to find her a teacher.

But Briar understands the city's gangs as well as he understands Evvy, the young mage. When gang warfare breaks out in Chammur, Briar has sympathy for those caught in the crossfire -- and he even helps to heal them. Then he discovers the fiercest gang is seeking a stone mage to lead them to hidden gems. This gang is trying to recruit Evvy.

Briar once believed gangs offered protection, but now he and his magic may offer the only protection Evvy can count on. As Briar is swept up in a bloody conflict, he must decide whether he's ready to become a teacher as well as a student -- and whether he's ready to make the the final step away from his former life as a "street rat."
My Thoughts: One of my re-reads for the year an an excellent book!


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You are The Magician

Skill, wisdom, adaptation. Craft, cunning, depending on dignity.

Eleoquent and charismatic both verbally and in writing,
you are clever, witty, inventive and persuasive.

The Magician is the male power of creation, creation by willpower and desire. In that ancient sense, it is the ability to make things so just by speaking them aloud. Reflecting this is the fact that the Magician is represented by Mercury. He represents the gift of tongues, a smooth talker, a salesman. Also clever with the slight of hand and a medicine man - either a real doctor or someone trying to sell you snake oil.

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