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Yesterday's Magic (New Magic Trilogy #2)
WHEN HEATHER MCKENNA is kidnapped by the sorceress Morgan LeFay, it is up to Heather’s friend Welly and the wizard Merlin (yes, that Merlin), to rescue her. Set 500 years in the future, following a nuclear devastation, the technological world has ground to a halt, but magic is beginning to take hold again. And the powerful icons of myth are starting to fight over control o...more
Hardcover, 224 pages
Published
May 27th 2008
by Random House Books for Young Readers
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Reviewed by Candace Cunard for TeensReadToo.com
The sequel to TOMORROW'S MAGIC packs a definite punch. Hundreds of years into Earth's future, humanity has lost control of its nuclear weapons and destroyed much of the planet, plunging the world into another ice age and killing off most of the human population. Years later, civilization is starting to rebuild in those few pockets of human life that remain, but this civilization looks very different from the one that preceded it. For one thing, the...more
The sequel to TOMORROW'S MAGIC packs a definite punch. Hundreds of years into Earth's future, humanity has lost control of its nuclear weapons and destroyed much of the planet, plunging the world into another ice age and killing off most of the human population. Years later, civilization is starting to rebuild in those few pockets of human life that remain, but this civilization looks very different from the one that preceded it. For one thing, the...more
Yesterday’s Magic is my favorite out of the three books I’ve read of the New Magic series. I can tell that both the author and the characters have matured a bit by this point. Although, I’m eternally glad I found the series after Service had published the new books. I hate coming into a series only to discover it isn’t finished and the author hadn’t put out a new book in years. Drive me nuts. Yesterday’s Magic was a well-paced, magical trip across a world that could just possibly be what ours be...more
I was so excited to see a new book in this series! Service was one of my favorite childhood authors, and these novels were amongst my favorites. This new addition did not disappoint. I love how the different stories and mythologies were interwoven.
Not quite as good as the first two books (now published together as Tomorrow's Magic) and with an ending that seems extremely abrupt if it's not (hopefully?) leading to a fourth volume in the series. Still, it earns an extra point just for the chance it provided me to spend more time with these characters I've loved for twenty years. Even if in the interim the author *did* forget what color hair one of them had. ;-)
I still have trouble seeing what Welly's role is in all of this. I mean, even Troll's managed to get a few things done, save some lives, what have you.
A really good read.
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Born in Berkeley, California, Pamela F. Service grew up loving to hear, read, and tell stories - particularly about weird stuff. Pamela earned a BA in Political Science from UC Berkeley followed by an MA in history and archaeology from the University of London.
She spent many years living in Bloomington, Indiana, writing, serving on the city council, and being curator of a history museum. She has...more
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