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While writing Mister Magic White drew upon her experiences with the Mormon church, both as an active member and her choice to leave the religion. In an interview with The Salt Lake Tribune White stated that "Writing the novel gave me the chance to dive into this idea we have of what childhood should be" and that “A lot of conservative religions teach this sort of ownership over children’s ...
In this adventure, Bink is exiled to Mundania because he has (inadvertently) broken Xanth law by not having a magical talent. He returns to Xanth with Chameleon, a woman whose intelligence and beauty vary inversely depending on the time of the month, and the evil magician Trent, who was exiled 20 years earlier for attempting to usurp the throne of Xanth.
The Magician King is a fantasy novel by Lev Grossman, published in 2011 by Viking Press, the sequel to The Magicians and the second volume in The Magicians trilogy.It continues the story of Quentin Coldwater, interweaving it with the story of his high school friend, Julia, who learned magic outside of the standard school setting and joined him in Fillory.
The hero eventually reaches "the innermost cave" or the central crisis of his adventure, where he must undergo "the ordeal" where he overcomes the main obstacle or enemy, undergoing "apotheosis" and gaining his reward (a treasure or "elixir"). In the return section, the hero must return to the ordinary world with his reward. He may be pursued ...
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The New Statesman reviewer, Amanda Craig, praised the novel as "a tale of magic such as might have been written by the young Jane Austen – or, perhaps, by the young Mrs Radcliffe, whose Gothic imagination and exuberant delicacy of style set the key." However, she also criticised the book: "As fantasy, it is deplorable, given that it fails to ...
The Iceblade Sorcerer Shall Rule the World (Japanese: 冰剣の魔術師が世界を統べる〜世界最強の魔術師である少年は、魔術学院に入学する〜, Hepburn: Hyōken no Majutsushi ga Sekai o Suberu: Sekai Saikyō no Majutsushi de Aru Shōnen wa, Majutsu Gakuin ga Nyūgaku Suru) is a Japanese light novel series written by Nana Mikoshiba and illustrated by Riko Korie.