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Ein wirklich großartiges Buch, dass mich gefesselt hat und sich sehr gut lesen lässt. Die Charaktere, vor allem Rothen und Dannyl sind mir ans Herz gewachsen und ich mache direkt mit Band 2 weiter :)
Klassisch mittelalterliche Fantasy mit Magiergilde, Diebesgilde und dem Waisenmädchen mit ungeahnten Kräften. Das ganze so wunderbar flüssig erzählt und mit sympatischen Charakteren gefüllt, dass die Geschichte nur so dahinfliegt, man mit Sonea durch die Strassen jagt und ehe man sichs versieht schon im spannenden Finale steckt. Sonea selbst ist dabei die einzige, die hin und wieder die Geschwindigkeit bremst, wenn sie mit ihrer Sturheit und Gabe stets falsche Entscheidungen zu treffen, meine Ne
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Mar 23, 2007
Inara
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Sonea, a young slum girl has magical abilities but isn´t aware of them. Only when she throws a stone at a magician at the day of the Purge (the day when the city is cleared of beggars, homeless people and suspected criminals) and it is able to go through his magical shield and hurt him she suddenly knows. Now she has to hide. With the help of her friend Cery she finds shelter with the thieves who want in return use her magical powers to their own advantage. But her powers are wild and uncontroll
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A young poor girl discovers, in a world where the might of magic is only keeped to some privileged men and women, that she also have magic in herself. Scared of the other magicians she is forced to hide herself from the magicians guild, because she doesn't know that she's able to harm herself and others around her, if she loses the control of her own magic powers...
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This book was recommended by a friend and I really had no expectation when I started it. I only ...more
A young poor girl discovers, in a world where the might of magic is only keeped to some privileged men and women, that she also have magic in herself. Scared of the other magicians she is forced to hide herself from the magicians guild, because she doesn't know that she's able to harm herself and others around her, if she loses the control of her own magic powers...
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This book was recommended by a friend and I really had no expectation when I started it. I only ...more
The Beginning was really slow-paced and i was close to drop this book, but after things got started in the second part i couldn't stop reading and sacrificed hours of much needed sleep to finish the book and immediatley started with the second.
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Dec 17, 2013
Mpauli
marked it as to-read
