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    <body><![CDATA[I’ve never been into books about dragons and fairies and whatnot (I don’t even care for <em>Lord of the Rings</em>), but Larbalestier’s magic is so suffused with real, temporal, relational implications that it was easy to overlook the unicorn-adorned fantasy sticker on the book’s spine. Magic, in thi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2776781">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have to first start off with the point of view, or points of view i should say.  Reason, the main character started the story off by narrating in first person.  But as the story proceeded and introduced more characters the telling was twisted into third person with these new characters as the foca...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5405373">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Reviewed by Jocelyn Pearce for TeensReadToo.com<br/><br/>Reason Cansino has always been taught to fear her grandmother, Esmeralda. Reason's mother, Sarafina, has taken them all over Australia, mostly to remote Aboriginal settlements. Reason has only been to a real school once, but Sarafina has tau...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21685850">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The one where Reason's mother goes mad, leaving Reason in the clutches of the grandmother she's been taught is a wicked witch. <br/><br/>I enjoyed this, though like many YA books it was more of a snack than a full novel. (It only lasted me a day and a half! I had to make a special evening trip to ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3722438">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is about Reason Cansino and she lives in Australia. Her mother and her have been traveling the outback trying to escape her crazy grandmother. Although her mother becomes insane and is sent to a care place. So Reason is put in the care of her grandmother. Reason's mother, Sarafina, has tol...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10150214">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[If you are the one who have magic, you will choose magic or madness?<br/>Reason was a teenager who had magic. Around her family, everyone who used their magic died early, but who didn't use their magic became mad around thirty years old.<br/>What would Reason choose?]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I enjoyed this better than the other teen sci-fi trilogy I've been reading (Westerfield's Uglies/Pretties/Specials). And it is related--apparently Westerfield was a mentor for this author.<br/><br/>Anyway, good stuff. Reason has been raised in the Outback by her mother, constantly running from an ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39202">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[ _Magic or Madness_ reads beautifully as the first third of a three-part novel. Like most books written in a series, it doesn't actually feel like it's own book because it is just one part of a larger plot arc... to be continued. But one can hardly fault a contemporary author for propelling you into...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41646646">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Reason is a 15 year old girl who’s moved from place to place in the Australian outback every few months, on the run from Reason’s grandmother Esmerelda.  Sarafina, her mother, attempts suicide, is hospitalized and Reason goes to live with Esmerelda in Sydney.  Reason loves math, does Fibonacci n...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39604986">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[You'd be better off not reading this review. Or the book jacket, for that matter. Close the window, step away from your computer, buy the book -- you'll like it, I promise -- and open it to the first page, and begin. Make sure you have a couple hours free, because you're not going to put it down til...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60055406">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really was not a fan of this book.  I thought Larbalestier's writing was just strange.  Some of her sentence structure just made no sense and it got on my nerves.  Then she jumped from first person narrative to 3rd, which made no sense to me either.  I didn't add anything to the book only made it ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52709530">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm not sure how I came across this book, but I'm glad I checked it out from the library &amp; didn't buy it.  It was really just ok for me (that sounded like Randy from American idol - dawg).  Anyways, I wouldn't recommend it.  I don't even think I will bother reading the other 2 books in the trilogy.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is another one that was for my sister. There's three books in all and a quick flick through them revealed some swear words and sex involves, so I thought I'd better read through it to make sure it wasn't too bad (I was starting to read Jackie Collins when I was her age, but that's another story...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41929983">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was unsure whether to rate this as 3 or 4 stars, until I found out that it's part of a trilogy.  It left me unsatisfied, wanting more... but that's OK, because more is coming.  If my library has book 2, that is.  <br/><br/>The themes and characters in this book really resonated with me, although...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79986403">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Reason Cansino and her mother, Sarafina, are on the run from Reason's wicked grandmother, Esmeralda, who believes magic is real and does unspeakable things because of it.<br/><br/>But when Sarafina attempts to take her own life and is taken to a psychiatric institution, Reason has no choice but to...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52276546">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[In short, it was pretty good. The cover told me right away in plain words that this is the first in a trilogy, so I wasn't expecting resolution to every plot- and thought-line in the book.<br/><br/>I recommend this book for the author's presentation of magic as a dangerous and painful thing, but a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35986575">more...</a>]]></body>
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