BOOK Reviews!!

I've always been a sucker of anything magical and mystical. Last week, as I browsed through the racks in MPH, The Curve, I saw this...

It took me about one and a half days to finish it, with breaks in between of course. I've never read any books written by Trudi Canavan before, but this first taste left me wanting more.

The Magicians' Guild is the first book in the Black Magician Trilogy. It's a tale of magic (of course!) and politics and life. A young teenage girl from the slum accidentally found herself magically gifted when she threw a stone to a magician with hate and anger, bypassing the protective barrier casted by the magicians. Thus, begin the journey of Sonea and her rebel friends in an attempt to run away from being captured by the magicians.

The magicians have a good reason to capture her though. It's because, an untrained magician will in the end destroy herself/himself and anything around her/him because the inability to control the powers. And a naturally adept magician is more powerful than those who has to learn. As Sonea's power become a pot of uncontrollable magic stew, the people who are closed to her started to drift away because of fear.

She was lucky though that the magician who will be her Guardian later, took a lot of effort to make her trust him and believe that she could make a difference with her new found power. As she got used to the life in the Guild, she learned of betrayal, honesty and the forbidden art of black magick.

The book glued me to the end. And I could not wait to get the second installment of the trilogy. The next book will be The Novice which entailed Sonea's joining the Guild officially. The third book is The High Lord.

I also picked up this book on the same day. I just finished reading it yesterday evening.

This chic lit by Tasmina Perry is a fast, sexy, scandalous and delicious read. Daddy's Girls is a story about four famous and successful sisters who were the daughters of and English Lord, a one Lord Balcon. Although there was no love lost between the father and the daughters, family loyalty and siblings bonding were strongly potrayed in the novel.

Venetia, Camilla, Cate and Serena were borned with silver spoon. They can have everything that money can buy. And as any other stories about high class families, there will be murders, betrayal, conspiracies, financial disaster and relationship disasters. It's your typical The Bold and The Beautiful (not that I watch this series) in paperback.

This book is actually Ms. Perry's debut novel in 2006. The story started of with a handful of originalities, although towards the end it became like any other novel. But her attempt to inject a bit of mystery and conspiracy theories is commendable. It's a good escape reading whilst imagining yourself to have all those luxuries, advantages and of course, money.

Now I am officially run out of books to read... Hmm... Maybe I should just drop by the bookstore again, and buy The Novice...