![]() The magic in Wellmet is fading, and that means Nevery is too busy to help Conn – even though Conn thinks he has an idea what’s happening. ![]() Conn is determined to be Nevery’s apprentice, but the Council of Wizards will only accept him if he can find his own locus magicalicus. Just touching this would kill most people – but as Conn doesn’t die, the wizard, Nevery Flinglas, decides to keep him around. ![]() One cold evening he picks a wizard’s pocket, and ends up not with coins, but with the wizard’s locus magicalicus, the stone tuned just to him that lets him do magic. Recorded Books, 2008Ĭonnwaer is a pickpocket and lockpick living on the foggy, cobbled streets of Wellmet. I’ll do the best I can to talk about these books without too many spoilers. I tried to speed through the first three books (as much as it’s possible to speed through audiobooks) so that I could read the fourth one in sequence, as it’s nominated for the Cybils and I’d have to read it anyway. ![]() Here’s a series that got slowly pushed to the top of my list by the sheer amount of fellow blogger love for it. ![]() I thought that if Charlotte – and lots of other people – liked the Magic Thief better than the Winterling books that I had considered quite solid, I’d best get on reading them. This spring, Charlotte wrote a Waiting on Wednesday post about how, while she liked Fer and Rook just fine, she was really anxiously waiting to find out what would happen to Conn. This is a series that hadn’t really been on my radar until last year, when I Winterling, also by Prineas. ![]()
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