![]() ![]() It may just be the shortness of the books, but I did often feel like things were rushed or not explained well enough. The ancient craggy hills, the wild wind, the old legends creeping into modern day, the sort of almost-lilt of the slightly-odd way they talk even in English, and the occasional smattering of Welsh words dropped here or there. I’ve read a few books, now, set in semi-modern-day Wales (these particular ones were from the 1980s) and they all had a similar “feel,” so I found that to be neat. So Gwyn has inherited his ancestor’s magic in his blood, and he has to learn responsibility for it and how to look out for his friends and occasionally fight fantastical things, while trying to keep it all from the various relations/neighbors who, due to the modern setting, don’t understand these things. They follow a modern Welsh boy (Gwyn) from age eight to thirteen, as he discovers he’s the seventh descendant from the last magician in his family line - which has a magician every seven generations since a Welsh magician of legend named Gwydion. I’m not sure what I think of them overall? I mean… I enjoyed them okay, some of the writing was lovely, and it’s obvious that they’re not meant to be taken too seriously - just fun adventures written for kids. These were slim books, each of which I read in a sitting, and I was in the mood for some short reads, so that was nice. ![]() ![]() Series: The Magician Trilogy Titles: The Snow Spider (#1), Emlyn’s Moon (#2), The Chestnut Soldier (#3) ![]()
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