The Wizard Heir (The Heir Chronicles, #2)

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The Wizard Heir (The Heir Chronicles #2)

by Cinda Williams Chima (Goodreads Author)

4.14 of 5 stars 4.14 · rating details · 17,772 ratings · 798 reviews

Sixteen-year-old Seph McCauley has spent the past three years getting kicked out of one exclusive private school after another. And it's not his attitude that's the problem. It's the trail of magical accidents-lately, disasters-that follow in his wake. Seph is a wizard, orphaned and untrained--and his powers are escalating out of control.

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Paperback, 458 pages

Published June 10th 2008 by Disney-Hyperion

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Dec 04, 2008 Jennifer rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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Sep 21, 2012 Sarah rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. i bought the wizard heir a few years back, not knowing it was the second book to a series. the aspect of wizards, warriors, seers, enchanters, and sorcerers really caught my attention. i started reading the book immediately taken by the colossal event that eventually sends Joseph (Seph) to the havens. the prologue kinda threw me off at first i must admit but i think that's just because i hadn't read the first book at the time. anyways, so Seph makes it to Maine where the heavens is located and i...more i bought the wizard heir a few years back, not knowing it was the second book to a series. the aspect of wizards, warriors, seers, enchanters, and sorcerers really caught my attention. i started reading the book immediately taken by the colossal event that eventually sends Joseph (Seph) to the havens. the prologue kinda threw me off at first i must admit but i think that's just because i hadn't read the first book at the time. anyways, so Seph makes it to Maine where the heavens is located and is immediately taken by the feeling that something is off. from here the story was interesting especially since Seph goes through so much physically and mentally, i personally found it a bit dry the first time i read this section, but after i read the warrior heir and came back and read the wizard heir the second time Seph's struggle, was even more captivating. not to give too much away but at the havens Seph then eventually meets Jason another wizard who refuses to join the alumni as well. together the two of them work on defense magic. finally when Seph eventually escapes and makes it to the town of trinity the story really picks up. Seph meets Jack, Ellen, and Nick among the other weir living in trinity. the eventual ending of the wizard heir was amazing! and that's what i thought the first time i read it with no knowledge that there would be another installment and that there was actually a book before it. after reading it i couldn't stop thinking about the characters so when i checked online to see if anyone else shared the same view, i was stoked to see that there was the warrior heir and the dragon heir too. immediately purchasing both and reading them all in sequence i was completely taken with the whole series. the dragon heir was a strong follow, but it had a weak ending, thankfully as of a few months ago Chima announced that there are two more heir books to come the enchanter heir, and sorcerer heir. overall this book, and this whole series in a word is just AMAZING. Chima is one of my favorite authors, and her seven realms series is just as good as the heir series. I've recommended this series to several people of varying ages who have all really enjoyed it. a must read in my opinion.
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Nov 07, 2012 Jennifer Wardrip rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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Reviewed by Carrie Spellman for TeensReadToo.com

Sixteen-year-old Seph (Joseph) McCauley is a double orphan. His parents died in a tragic accident so long ago that he doesn't remember them. (At least that's what the paperwork says; Seph's pretty sure it's fake.) Not too long ago he lost Genevieve, the woman who raised him and cared for him. Since then he's been shipped from town to town, from school to school. The only thing that stays the same is the reason he keeps having to leave. Weird things...more Reviewed by Carrie Spellman for TeensReadToo.com

Sixteen-year-old Seph (Joseph) McCauley is a double orphan. His parents died in a tragic accident so long ago that he doesn't remember them. (At least that's what the paperwork says; Seph's pretty sure it's fake.) Not too long ago he lost Genevieve, the woman who raised him and cared for him. Since then he's been shipped from town to town, from school to school. The only thing that stays the same is the reason he keeps having to leave. Weird things happen around Seph--birds attacking, explosions, fires--and the last time, somebody died. Seph knows that if he could find someone to train him, he could control, or harness, or even use his magic. If it doesn't happen soon, he might just self-destruct. Literally.

His latest prison is an all-boys school in the middle of nowhere on the coast of Maine. Seph expected that the other students might be a bit different from what he's used to, but these kids are beyond weird. And the teachers, well, that's a whole other thing. Wonder of all wonders, the headmaster, Gregory Leicester, is a wizard, and wants to train Seph! It seems his prayers have been answered. But something still feels - off. The way the students behave towards the headmaster, the way the other teachers treat him, the "research students" in the special dorm... Leicester seems to want more than Seph is willing to give. A battle of wills, of frightening proportion, begins. The more Leicester wants him to do something, the less Seph is willing to give in. The only answer is escape or death. But what if escape is just the beginning?

Fun, exciting, non-stop reading. I didn't let it out of my sight until I found the time to finish it. I think I may have a crush on Seph. What can I say; I like the dark, edgy guys.

There is another book written by the author that fits in the timeline before this, called THE WARRIOR HEIR. That book is not at all necessary to read first. I haven't read it yet, and I really liked this book. Although you can bet I plan on devouring that one shortly! For readers of THE WARRIOR HEIR, I believe the main character is Jack, and rest assured he plays a big part in the second half of this book. Which gives me hope that Seph might turn up again. (less)

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Apr 15, 2008 Lisa rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: Fans of YA sci-fi

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Dec 30, 2007 Violet rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: young adult

i LOVED this book. Seph, a very powerful wizard, doesn't realize that he's a wizard until he goes to the Havens when he's 16, a school for boys. The headmaster, Gregory Leicester, takes advantage of the fact that the wizards who go to his school are untrained and aren't affiliated with either of the two warring houses (the Red Rose and the White Rose), and the wizards that come to his school are mentally tortured by nightmares until they agree to link to Leicester. Seph refuses and nearly dies a...more

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Feb 15, 2013 Maythavee rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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If you thought The Warrior Heir was good then wait till you read The Wizard Heir, it’s freaking awesome! I really enjoyed it!

The main character in this book is Joseph (Seph) McCauley, an untrained wizard who has been kicked out of three schools in the past year because of unexplained accidents. When he goes to his new school, Haven, he meets Leicester who claims that he is able to train Seph. I really like Seph. He is an interesting character. His ability to resist Leicester’s torture and his e...more

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Dec 15, 2011 Joey rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

The characters in the book The Wizard Heir they were all different. The most important character was Seph a 16 year old boy who runs a bar in Ontario, when he gets to the bar and in his private booth a girl approaches him and gives him this potion that made him feel warm all at once. Then his fingers shot fire out and burned the bar down and accidentally killed one of his friends. This is how it all began for Seph and future events. He is a very powerful wizard and does not even know it; he make...more

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May 16, 2013 Sarah rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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This is my absolute favorite book in the Heir series. I love family mysteries and discovery of something amazing type of books though. I will admit that I figured the mystery out before it was revealed, but I've gotten really good at that and all of my other friends who read this book did not see it coming. Still, I love the way Chima handles the situation and storyline and the development of the characters. Again, it's an easy read and a debut novel series, but it's great. This book does not ce...more

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Mar 27, 2013 Sharon rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

It could never be quite as good as the Warrior Heir, even the second time through. And overall, it was a very well done book, it was just kind of sad.

Seph is not my favorite person--he's too much of a partier, although I admire some aspects of his character. He went through a lot of things, painful both physically and mentally, which toned him out to be a tragic but strong person, which was kind of a cool effect, but also a little depressing. There was also a little too much murder/violence goin...more

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Jan 20, 2013 Alexis Miller rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

When I first read this book I was perhaps 12 and more likely 11. I had snuck into my older sisters room and was nosing through her stuff (Like only a much younger sibling can do) and I stumbled across her copy of the Wizard Heir. I hadn't read the Warrior Heir, I wasn't even aware of it's existence actually.
But wow.
The book itself was everything I hadn't gotten a chance to read before. It was decidedly Young Adult a genre my mum didn't really approve of but the book was just fabulous. The charac...more

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Dec 20, 2012 Hunter Bangerter rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

title: wizard Heir

Author: Cinda Williams

main issue: a wizard trying to take over the other heirs of wizards, warriors, and gifted.

the time and place in the story: it was crazy everywhere but mostly in the home of jack and Ellen, trinity Ohio.

description of characters: liecister, antagonist/ Jack and Ellen, protagonist/ Seph, protagonist.

story: a boy named seph started out gifted but his parents died and never taught him to control his gifted powers. so seph through life was kicked out of place...more

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Sep 11, 2012 Heather Constantino rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Second in the series, it was just as compelling as the first. New characters are introduced, but we do get to visit with the original characters midway through the book. Chima has developed a world with wizards and warriors and other magical peoples that is set in a modern day landscape. She is able to blend the worlds of the Weir (magical people) and the Anaweir (nonmagical people)that is very believable. The struggle for power between the wizard factions heats up as yet another group tries to...more

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Jul 21, 2012 Adrianna rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I recently finished the second book in the Heir Trilogy, The Wizard Heir by Cinda Williams Chima and I was glad to find that the second book was just as good (if not better!) than the fist book! The book takes place about two years after The Warrior Heir and while it has a new protagonist, Joseph "Seph" McCauley, we run into our old favorites- Jack, Ellen, Will, Linda, Becka, Nick, and of course Leander. This story follows Seph as he is sent off to a reform school following a fire he unintention...more

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Dec 15, 2011 Jeromy rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

The book I read was the wizard heir by Cinda Williams Chima. This book was about 458 pages long. The Wizard Heir is about a teenager who has these wizard powers, but he doesn’t know how to use them, or what they are. Later he is sent to a university, and soon finds out that this school is not an ordinary school, and that it is in a remote location in trinity Ohio surrounded by nothing but forests.
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Nov 26, 2011 Molly Jo rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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Seph's situation is very different from Jack's on several levels. First, Seph knows he has powers, whereas Jack was blind-sided with new-found strength. Unfortunately, Seph finds himself in situations where the powers are very much out of his control. Second, Jack had people around him who cared and taught him how to use his abilities appropriately. Seph has Genevive, his foster mother who is also a seer. While she knows about the Weir, Genevive doesn't trust wizards in the least and is hesistan...more Seph's situation is very different from Jack's on several levels. First, Seph knows he has powers, whereas Jack was blind-sided with new-found strength. Unfortunately, Seph finds himself in situations where the powers are very much out of his control. Second, Jack had people around him who cared and taught him how to use his abilities appropriately. Seph has Genevive, his foster mother who is also a seer. While she knows about the Weir, Genevive doesn't trust wizards in the least and is hesistant to give Seph much information. Being without a Weirbook, Seph is completely lost. This is compounded when Genevive passes away, leaving Seph in the care of his lawyer guardians. A meeting with Leesha Middleton, aka b**** of the century, ends disastrously and lands Seph at the Havens, a private school for "troubled boys".

When Leicester's character was introduced, I didn't really trust him. I've always had good intuition and it didn't let me down this time! Some of Seph's experiences at the Havens were very hard to read about, because Leicester is truly evil, but they showed just how strong Seph is. Cinda created an amazing boy in Seph. He's had to pull himself up by his boot straps so many times throughout his life and that is how he looks at the situation he's in at the Havens. There are other wizards with seemingly tempting offers to help Seph, to show him how to harness his powers. But Seph has good intuition as well.

That's all I'm saying about the plot, and I only said that much because it was implied in the description from the back of the book - "wicked agenda".

The Wizard Heir built nicely on the informaiton about the Weir and their world that we learned about in The Warrior Heir. I found that I moved through this book faster because I was familiar with the terminology and lore. If you haven't read either of these, I would recommend looking at Cinda's wedsite, which I mentioned in my previous blog and failed to link. I've fixed that here. During Warrior, I found myself flipping back to previous sections to refresh my memory or re-read the background of the Weir. The only time I did that during Wizard was to find my favorite quote:

Leicester looked bereft, like his birthday had been cancelled. (page 188)

That line made me all warm and fuzzy inside.
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Aug 04, 2011 Amanda rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

The Wizard Heir follows the story of sixteen-year-old bad boy Seph, an orphan who can't seem to stay on the straight and narrow. He discovers that he is one of the Weir, in fact, he is a wizard. In now-traditional Harry Potter style, Seph is sent to the Havens, an school in rural Maine that appears to be a school for troubled teenage boys, but is actually a front for a wizard training school run by Headmaster Leicester. WhenSeph finds that Leicester is not what he seems, the young wizard devotes...more The Wizard Heir follows the story of sixteen-year-old bad boy Seph, an orphan who can't seem to stay on the straight and narrow. He discovers that he is one of the Weir, in fact, he is a wizard. In now-traditional Harry Potter style, Seph is sent to the Havens, an school in rural Maine that appears to be a school for troubled teenage boys, but is actually a front for a wizard training school run by Headmaster Leicester. WhenSeph finds that Leicester is not what he seems, the young wizard devotes his time to defying the headmaster and finding the truth behind his mysterious birth.

A considerable improvement on its predecessor, The Warrior Heir, The Wizard Heir actually follows a different main character than the first book, but takes place in the same world. Characters from the first book even make appearances. This may throw off some younger readers, but I thought it was a great concept. It helped to keep the series fresh and made it easier for first-time readers to understand because the author finds the opportunity to re-introduce the world. Honestly, this book should be considered more of a companion novel to The Warrior Heir than a direct sequel.

Overall, I thought that it was a fun read. It was exciting and fast-paced at the beginning and end, but seemed to drag horribly in the middle. It was so bad that I even considered putting the book aside and trying again later. While this does give the opportunity for the reader to seeSeph in a different environment and to see what previous characters have been up to, I was hoping that it would be a little more interesting.

Thankfully, near the end the action picks up again. Seph learns the truth about his parents' death, his birth, and the reason why Leicester wanted him so badly. I was particularly surprised to see the highly political nature of the novel's climax. Even though it had been hinted at previously in the series, the turgid world of wizard politics suddenly took center stage and gave the novel a different dimension. I didn't expect this from a young adult novel, and even though Chima explains the political climate with perfect clarity, some younger readers might have trouble figuring out what was happening. I, however, think that this is the strongest point of the novel and hints at the great potential that Chima has as a writer.

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Jul 04, 2011 Shannon rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: youngadult

This sequel to The Warrior Heir was a decent, if somewhat predictable follow up. At the end of the first book, I had wondered whether Chima would use the same characters in subsequent books. The Warrior Heir didn't end on a cliffhanger, so I thought she might start up with an entirely new cast of characters. I was pleased to find The Wizard Heir did have many of the same characters, albeit with the focus on a new main character, Seph (short for Joseph).

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May 20, 2011 Hannah added it · review of another edition

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Jan 17, 2011 Nina Levine rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: Fans of Harry Potter, Pendragon, Dragonsblood

Shelves: adventure, coming-of-age, fantasy, young-adult

The 2nd in the series, this tale is a worthy companion to the Warrior Heir and leaves you hungry for Dragon Heir. Seph believes he is an orphan who was raised primarily by a loving foster mother until her death 3 years earlier. He knows he is a wizard and desperately wants to find a teacher so he can learn to understand, control and develop his powers but no teacher has been forthcoming as he is shunted from one boarding school to another. He leaves a trail of unintended destruction behind that...more

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Dec 08, 2010 Chase rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

The Wizard Heir
Imprisoned in a school
Will is the kind of kid who parties all night, sleeps during class. He has been expelled from three different school in two years. The fourth school is one he can’t get expelled from because he is being held prisoner. Gregory Lester is holding him there until Will connects stones with his to make him more powerful. Will escaped with adult who pretended to be his guardian. She drove Will to a safe haven in Ohio trinity. Will settled into the small town and we...more The Wizard Heir
Imprisoned in a school
Will is the kind of kid who parties all night, sleeps during class. He has been expelled from three different school in two years. The fourth school is one he can’t get expelled from because he is being held prisoner. Gregory Lester is holding him there until Will connects stones with his to make him more powerful. Will escaped with adult who pretended to be his guardian. She drove Will to a safe haven in Ohio trinity. Will settled into the small town and went on a boat ride with some friends. When Will is outside of the safe haven Lester captures him. One of the reasons The Wizard Heir is a terrific book is because it shows how Will grows in wizardry as when he controlled his bad dreaming, pretended to be a dragon and beat three wizards in a fight.

The first way Will shows he is becoming a better wizard is when he learns to control his bad dreams. Will’s bad dreams are caused by Lester. Since Lester wants to connect stones with Will, he has to force Will into thinking that he is the only one who can stop the bad dreams. Luckily Will found someone who could help him stop the dreams. A kid named Jason who has also chosen not to connect stones. Jason had an old artifact that could stop the dreams which teaches Will about how artifacts can give you power. Jason also taught Will about old magic such as disappearing, sneaking around, and defenses against certain spells. With Jason’s help, Will is learning more and more about wizardry.
Another way Will is improving on his wizardry skills is by pretending to be a dragon to defeat Lester. Will has to team up with Jason. Jason projects a 3D image in the balcony while Will shoots fire out of the dragon’s mouth at Lester. Will’s wizard skills have improved because he has learned the attack spell and the difficult lesson, how to team up with another wizard. Finally Will learned how to beat Lester. He had to drain all the power out of him by using a special type of wizardry. All these new powers are evidence of Will’s growth.
The final demonstration of how Will’s wizardry skills have escalated is Will defending himself against three fully trained wizards. Will was on a nice picnic with his girlfriend when three wizards appeared and Will had to protect himself and his girlfriend against them. Will told her to run and she did. Will spoke counter spells and attack spells, which surprised the wizards. Will tried to back away up a hill, but it lead to a cliff where he became trapped. He would have been taken away if it hadn’t been for his warrior friend who distracted them while Will paralyzed them. Will has almost mastered attack and defense charms. Now that he can work with other people and use his strength in wizardry, he’s become a greater wizard than ever before.
One of the reasons The Wizard Heir is a good book is because it shows how Will grows in wizardry like when he learns to control his bad dreams, when he pretends to be a dragon and beats three wizards in a fight.. This book remind me of a book I read where there were criminals in a school for criminals learning how to be better robbers and thieves. There were five kids who didn’t like the school and were trying to escape just like will in the school run by Lester. I learned that criminals never win and that friends can be friends anywhere just as Will found friends at all of the other schools he got expelled from. That is why I rate this book four out of five stars.
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Nov 15, 2010 Isaac Hamlet rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I know I gave this a lower score than the original despite a better story and slightly better characters. The real problem is the aauthor either refuses to do a nessesary final draft or writes that inconsistantly. There are moments in the story where she'll go from moments of vast detail to none at all. There is a apart in the story where the main charcter and the antagonist are trying to over power eachother with magic. She describes their strain and struggle for about three paragraphs. Then ou...more I know I gave this a lower score than the original despite a better story and slightly better characters. The real problem is the aauthor either refuses to do a nessesary final draft or writes that inconsistantly. There are moments in the story where she'll go from moments of vast detail to none at all. There is a apart in the story where the main charcter and the antagonist are trying to over power eachother with magic. She describes their strain and struggle for about three paragraphs. Then out of the blue the antagonists stooges some out and beat the main character up. She basicly goes from vivid detail to; the door opened and the alumi appeared over powered seph and beat him to the ground. No other struggle is descibed or tention it's just over and it wouldn't bug me so much if it didn't happen over and over again. Another of my problems is that the characters are some of the most two demintional I've ever seen, there are guy characters girl character, and Hastings and Linda who hardly stand out from the form of the ladder. Really Seph and Jack are practically the same person which wouldn't have been so bad if Jack didn't come in half way through the story. Some of the secondary characters are actually more vivid than the primary characters, I'm talking about Filtch, I have more of a sence of who he is than most of the main characters, I've never seen that (like this) in a book, in movies, but not in books.I would have enjoyed this book much more if it had been about Seph staying at the Havens and trying to get away. Instead she brings the Characters from this book and the first one together which both excites and disappoints. But with these books it seems I have a better feel for them the longer I wait to review which is simply because (for the most part)her plots are good. Sure her characters are colorless and sterotypical (it seemes like every wizard except Leander, Snowbeard, and some other random guy mention for the purpose of killing are the onlygood wizards, none of the others seem to have an ounce of humanity.) All the antagonists and protagonists are the same. Antagonists: Heartless and evil. Protagonists: All (despite the authors best efforts) saints. But if you enjoyed the first one then read it. If you haven't noticed the things i've mentioned, read it. I'll probably be reluctanly returning for the third book mearly to see some characters die but hey, it's a goodread. (More or less.)
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Aug 25, 2010 Jane rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This is the sequel to "The Warrior Heir," and the story picks up a couple of months after the end of the first book. The main character is Seph, an orphaned teenage boy who has been in four different private schools in three years because of magical "accidents" that keep happening. Seph is a very powerful wizard, but he's had no training and thus has no idea why stuff happens or how to control his abilities. He gets placed in a very special and very private school, the Havens, which is in a remo...more

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Aug 13, 2010 Cornerofmadness rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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Thought this was #1 in the series but I was wrong (and I own #4 in the series. Sigh. I wish they would just mark these things so you could tell). this is a book that makes me wish Goodreads had half stars. I would have easily given it 4 stars until the end where it drops back a half step, if not a little more.

Seph is a young man, often in trouble but is on his own, his parents are dead as is his guardian. Seph is a wizard and in this world that means something. The wizards are the top of the foo...more

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May 09, 2009 Trish rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This book took a little more effort to get into than the first, but the payoff is bigger. We see a repetition of themes--mixing of weir types--and there really isn't anything I can say without giving stuff away. I liked it better than the first, but there seemed to be an awful lot of wine drinking. It fits the book marvelously well, but the whole wine scene strikes me as pretentious and airy (this opinion prevailed even before it became a matter of my religion).

My daughter is converted. She actu...more

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Nov 28, 2012 Liz rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I finished reading this in traffic this morning. Nice.

Overall, I'd say 3.8 stars. Yes that specific. Its good enough to round up to 4, but I wouldn't say its earth-shattering or particularly special in terms of character development, worldbuilding, story, twists, whatever. In fact, I think the worldbuilding is particularly shallow and underdeveloped. I hope that will change as our main character gets to know more about the world he's joined. But so far, the only places that seem to exist are th...more

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Mar 21, 2012 Tiffany rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: 2012, modern-fantasy

Cinda Williams Chima takes an unexpected turn in her sequel to The Wizard Heir: she dares to consort with the enemy. Seph McCauley is conniving and intelligent, just lile any other wizard. But he's actually trying to do good. It's a pretty neat twist.

Actually, The Wizard Heir has a couple of.neat twists. Chronologically, they look a little like this:

BEGINNING: I was all hyped up for another Jack Swift adventire, and then I got swept into a wizard world. It was pretty disorienting, which made it...more

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Jul 07, 2009 Krista (One Love) (Critical) rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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I. Love. This. Book. We get a new main character, Seph, who I fell in love with after only a few chapter--though he kept growing on me throught the book. His character development was about as colorful as a rainbow, which sounds corny, but I can't thin of a better way to describe it.

Although I quite enjoyed the first book in the trilogy, this one really took my breath away. There wasn't a single boring part in the entire book, which is saying something considering its length. Plus, I love so ma...more

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Jan 11, 2009 LastMonk rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: Oh, just read my first reccomendation.

Recommended to LastMonk by: My own good sense.

Shelves: new-favorites

Right, first off, DON'T read this review unless you've read The Warrior Heir. No real spoilers or anything, but I'm writing this from the perspective of someone looking back...

The Warrior Heir wrapped up pretty nicely, hm? And now, let's leave Jack and Ellen in peace at Trinity for a while. The Wizard Heir opens the first chapters with a completely new cast--except for one familiar face. Now that we know a little about the whole Weir system, we enter a more complex world. Seph, our brand-new her...more

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Aug 07, 2011 Branwen rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: young-adult, fantasy-science-fiction

Seph has gotten kicked out of nearly every school he has been to, and for good reason. Disaster seems to strike wherever he goes, whether it be a rampaging fire that no one can explain or animals inexplicably out of control. When he is finally placed in a remote boarding school called the Havens, he learns that he is in fact a wizard, and so are many of the other students. Things change for the worse however when he learns that the headmaster is downright corrupt and has an evil plot to dominate...more

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Oct 17, 2012 Dorian rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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A pleasant piece of modern fantasy (term used deliberately because it doesn't really tick the boxes for urban fantasty, but is set in the modern world).

Seph, who is a bit of an arse really, in the way you'd expect of a teenage boy who's spent much of his life in expensive boarding schools, is asked to leave his latest school, and is sent instead to The Havens in New England. It rapidly turns out to be distinctly dodgy, as the headmaster tries to persuade Seph to "link" magically with him, and wh...more

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New York Times bestselling author Cinda Williams Chima comes from a long line of fortune-tellers, musicians and spinners of tales. She began writing romance novels in middle school, which were often confiscated by her teachers.

The Warrior Heir was named to Voya’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy 2005-2006, is a 2006 Booksense Summer Reading Pick, was named to the 2007-2008 Lone Star Reading List,...more

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“Don't expect much and you won't be disappointed.” — 84 people liked it

“Ellen drank long and deep from her water bottle and wiped her mouth with her gauntleted arm. "Are you feeling all right, Jack? Your play's flat, all in all. I was hoping to give Seph more of a show."
Jack tested the edge of his blade with his thumb. "Actually, Ellen, I wondered if you were coming down with something. You were downright lethargic. I nearly dozed off once or twice."
"Well, that explains it. You looked like you were asleep."
With that, they threw down their weapons and it dissolved into a wrestling match. In the end they were kissing each other.
It was certainly a different kind of courtship, but there was a chemistry, an understanding, a kinship between Jack and Ellen that Seph envied.” — 45 people liked it

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