Sixteen-year-old Seph McCauley has spent the past three years getting kicked out of one exclusive private school after another. Unfortunately i... read full description
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Dec 04, 2008
Jennifer
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Apr 15, 2008
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Dec 30, 2007
Violet
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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
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Dec 15, 2011
Joey
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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
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Jan 08, 2012
Annie
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The Wizard Heir is good, though not quite as good as The Warrior Heir. Finds Williams China's strength really is in the disloyal and the interplay between the young protagonists. Seph doesn't have the network of friends or family that Jack had so there is less of that dynamic and fun.
But the world is still well conceived and Steph is interesting enough to sustain the narrative. It definitely picks up when he meets up with characters we already know. And I loved the way the two stor More...
But the world is still well conceived and Steph is interesting enough to sustain the narrative. It definitely picks up when he meets up with characters we already know. And I loved the way the two stor More...
Dec 15, 2011
Jeromy
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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 (Surrounded By Words)
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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
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Aug 04, 2011
Amanda
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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
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Jul 04, 2011
Shannon
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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
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Jan 17, 2011
Nina
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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 th
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Dec 08, 2010
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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 More...
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 More...
Nov 15, 2010
Isaac
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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
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Aug 25, 2010
Jane
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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 Hav
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Aug 13, 2010
Cornerofmadness
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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 More...
May 09, 2009
Trish
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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).
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Jul 07, 2009
Krista (One Love) (Critical)
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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, More...
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, More...
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Jan 11, 2009
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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 b More...
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 b More...
Aug 07, 2011
Branwen
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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 dominat
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Aug 24, 2009
This is a book where wizards, sorcerers, etc. all live in our world. To be a wizard or a warrior you need to be born with a warrior or wizard stone. If you do not have it and you are a wizard or warrior you will die. This story is about a boy who is a wizard. However, he does not know his parents and is not trained. He has trouble in various schools because sometimes the power escapes and there is an incident (like a building burns down). He then is moved. He grew up with his "mom"
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Dec 31, 2010
Sarah
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Think a darker, more mature Harry Potter, with a hero, Seph, who's not quite sure whether he's Harry or Draco Malfoy. He's a spoiled rich orphan who's managed to get himself expelled from every school he's ever been in. (We're talking major property damage here.) In desperation his guardian sends him to a new school, the Havens...which is SO not Hogwarts. But is the headmaster a good guy, or an evil wizard? And is the army he's raising meant to save the world, or destroy it?
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Mar 06, 2009
Abigail
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When I first started reading this book, I was a little upset because... Where's Jack? Yes, it was tragic. I missed Jack and his loveable ferociousness. But anyway, I quickly(within first two pages) realized that Seph was just as wonderful as Jack :)
Oh yes, it was exciting. This book was a little more dark than the first one, and while I can't say that I loved it more than the first one, it's a strong contender. It's funny because with this book and The Warrior Heir, I was always bored to t More...
Oh yes, it was exciting. This book was a little more dark than the first one, and while I can't say that I loved it more than the first one, it's a strong contender. It's funny because with this book and The Warrior Heir, I was always bored to t More...
Oct 07, 2011
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The Wizard Heir by Cinda Williams Chima, book two of the Heir Chronicles, takes us into the life of Seph, a young wizard. It follows directly after the events of The Warrior Heir, where tensions between the Wizards and other guilds is high. If you have no idea what I'm talking about right now, go and read The Warrior Heir, as you will have no idea what is going on in this book if you don't read it first.
The author has managed to write a l More...
The Wizard Heir by Cinda Williams Chima, book two of the Heir Chronicles, takes us into the life of Seph, a young wizard. It follows directly after the events of The Warrior Heir, where tensions between the Wizards and other guilds is high. If you have no idea what I'm talking about right now, go and read The Warrior Heir, as you will have no idea what is going on in this book if you don't read it first.
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Nov 03, 2009
Kelly
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I didn't know this book was part of a series until just now. The first book doesn't need to be read before reading this one, although it may give a bit more background on some of the characters. I was not confused by not having read #1 first.
I enjoyed this book. If you like fantasy with wizards, seers, magic powers then you'll enjoy this one. Seph is the major character, a wizard of 15 yrs of age, who is being held at a boarding school against his will by another wizard who wants to li More...
I enjoyed this book. If you like fantasy with wizards, seers, magic powers then you'll enjoy this one. Seph is the major character, a wizard of 15 yrs of age, who is being held at a boarding school against his will by another wizard who wants to li More...
Oct 03, 2011
Sarah
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It keeps your attention. It has a few hidden surprises at the end which you might guess or might not but are confirmed at the end. The book has minimal swearing. People are used as pawns. The political situation of a ruling class with minimal freedom is over bearing. You feel for the main character! He has no friends because everyone he knows gets destroyed. The characters from the previous book are in this one, which thickens the main plot over all. The two books are tied together really well.
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Oct 14, 2010
Minli
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Sorry, this is where you lose me... It was just okay. Seph was an interesting character, but about halfway through I had to step back and go, "really, now?"
I was less charmed by the characters. There were interesting shades of grey among the teen characters, but the adults (especially the villains) were so hopelessly flat it grated on me. Wicked characters like Leicester are okay in MG fiction if it's a whimsical and funny Dahl-ish book, but I think I expected something more More...
I was less charmed by the characters. There were interesting shades of grey among the teen characters, but the adults (especially the villains) were so hopelessly flat it grated on me. Wicked characters like Leicester are okay in MG fiction if it's a whimsical and funny Dahl-ish book, but I think I expected something more More...
Feb 10, 2010
Meika
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I'm pleasantly surprised by this one. I was unimpressed by the first in the series, The Warrior Heir - it seemed implausible and silly. But this one strikes a chord of truth.
It does follow the typical plot device of rich boy, orphaned, sent to private school where all hell breaks loose because he is the most powerful kid in the world. Snore.
But Chima shakes it up with lots of intrigue and politics and actual, bona-fide danger. There's also less of a "we are good and they are More...
It does follow the typical plot device of rich boy, orphaned, sent to private school where all hell breaks loose because he is the most powerful kid in the world. Snore.
But Chima shakes it up with lots of intrigue and politics and actual, bona-fide danger. There's also less of a "we are good and they are More...
Nov 03, 2011
Mrs. Pam Browning
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I just finished The Wizard Heir by Cinda Williams Chima. The is a fun but long fantasy book, it it the second in the Heir Chronicles and I read the Warrior Heir first. In this book Seph a teenager with no family (since his foster mom just died) is sent to The Haven's a school for troubled boys. While he is there is discovers he is a wizard and the evil headmaster tries to get Seph to work for him. Seph escapes and meets up with the characters from the Warrior Heir book and together they cont
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Jan 29, 2010
Mandy
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The second book in the Heir Trilogy follows Seph McCauley, a sixteen year-old orphaned wizard with no training and a history of magical accidents following him from private school to private school. At a club in Toronto, he meets up with Alicia, who slips him a drug that causes him to start a fire where a friend dies. The school his guardian finds for him next is far away from civilization, and he soon realizes it is more prison than school. The headmaster, a wizard himself, soon tries to recrui
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Mar 29, 2009
Melissa
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I would rather have given this 2 1/2 stars. But I did like the story, so I went with 3. Unfortunately for this book it hit on a couple of my pet peeves...
First of all, the book felt overly long. There was too much description of things that didn't matter and it impeded the progression of the story. I know that the authors job is to paint a picture, but for me, it was just too much.
Second was the number of characters. Some of the characters were from the first book, so I was abl More...
First of all, the book felt overly long. There was too much description of things that didn't matter and it impeded the progression of the story. I know that the authors job is to paint a picture, but for me, it was just too much.
Second was the number of characters. Some of the characters were from the first book, so I was abl More...
