The Magicians’ Guild; The NoviceTrudi Canavan Not totally sure what I think about these yet… they’re the first two of The Black Magician Trilogy, and the last book isn’t at the library here, so I’m going to have to wait till I’m back in St. Paul. They don’t have any grand, sweeping ideas or revolutionary concepts, so it would be easy to dismiss them, but this one character, the character of Akkarin, stops me. Basic plot — Sonea, a street girl, is taken into the elusive Magicians’ Guild when they discover her magic is powerful enough to manifest on its […]