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The second book in this series I found it while attempting to find the first Mairelon the Magican. Was looking under Merlin the Magican but could not find it. Finally gave up and looked under Patrica Wrede, where I found this book as well. Full of laughter and mystery and even though their is some romance it is kept light hearted enough not to be to offensive. As with all her books well worth the read, I just wish their was a third to this set.


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Magician Ward Patricia C Wrede 9780312853693 Books Reviews

For Kim, much has changed since the successful resolution of the affair of the Saltash Set a year ago. An orphan, Kim once lived by her wits on the streets of London, posing as a boy to avoid the additional dangers that plague the city's less fortunate women. Then came the day she crossed paths with Mairelon the Magician (she really cannot think of him as Mr. Richard Merrill, even if it is his proper name). A true wizard, Mairelon had disguised himself as a traveling stage performer to investigate the mysterious theft of the Saltash Set. Somehow Kim got herself mixed up in Mairelon's wild adventure and now that things are more or less normal (well, as normal as they ever get around an eccentric toff like Mairelon), Kim has ended up as Mairelon's ward and apprentice. Kim can hardly believe it. Her, learning to be a lady when she never even let on that she was a girl. Not to mention studying to be a wizard at the same time. It's enough to set her head fair spinning.

Everything was fine while Mairelon and Kim were staying at the Merrill estate in Kent, but since they've come back to London things are altogether different. Mairelon is away at the Royal College of Wizards most days, leaving Kim at the mercy of his very proper paternal aunt, Mrs. Lowe. It seems Mrs. Lowe has taken it upon herself to arrange a suitable marriage for Kim at the very earliest opportunity. But if she thinks Kim is going to meekly let herself be priest-linked to some gentry noodle, she's got another thing coming!

Kim is diverted from her worries about her Society launch and Mrs. Lowe's matrimonial plans when a mysterious (but clearly inept) housebreaker attempts to steal a seemingly inconsequential volume from the Merrill townhouse library. Who would be foolish enough to break into the house of a wizard? Then comes the troubling news that several hedge wizards, untrained practitioners Kim knew in her previous life as a street rat, have been coerced into working for an unscrupulous moneylender with unknown ambitions. The puzzle becomes much more serious when a spell designed to track the would-be thief backfires on Mairelon. The magician and his ward will have to work fast if they are to avoid the dangers threatening to overtake them.

This sequel to Mairelon the Magician, set in the early 19th century against the glittering backdrop of a London Season, is a delightful, adventurous romp through magic, manners and mayhem. Ms. Wrede does a fine job combining the historical (England, just after the defeat of Napoleon) with the fantastic (magic exists and wizards are an accepted part of society). Her characters are fresh and fun (I have a soft spot for Kim with her shady background and her tendency to revert to thieves' cant when stressed) and it is easy to get caught up in the dangers they face. Ms. Wrede's story-telling is first rate.
This is a sequel to Mairelon The Magician. I liked the first one better.
The plot in The Magician's Ward is something of an afterthought. Someone is somehow absorbing the magic of wizards, including Mairelon. Kim has to solve the mystery, and use her expanding magical powers. Not very exciting, actually.
More important to the book is Kim's response to joining London Society, becoming 19, and realizing (surprise! -- well, not really) that she is in love with Mairelon.
The problem with that (for me) is that he is her legal guardian, her magical tutor, and apparently about 10-12 years older than her. None of which are actual problems in 19th century London, but they seem strange in a book written for modern young adult readers. In today's world this would be a tabloid-TV scandal, not an admired romance.
Like the first Mairelon book, I think the novel would have worked much better if it had been out-and-out written for an adult audience. My sense of these novels is that Wrede was trying to cram an adult romance into a young adult format.
Great follow up to a neat take on the sleuth genre.
Again, I did not read this book, but my daughter did and liked it very much. Again, this led her to more books by Patricia C. Wrede.
"The Magician's Ward" is set in a fantasy Regency England featuring Richard Merrill, a.k.a. Mairelon the Magician, who turns out to be a toff, and his ward Kim, the former street thief. Genre-wise, it is a regency romance with an overlay of fantasy. Those who prefer their fantasy straight up might be bored with all of the romance bits Aunt Agatha's attempts to introduce her 'niece' to Polite Society and find her a husband; all of the long, dull trips to the modiste; the requisite carriage ride through Hyde Park; the coming-out ball; the visit to the opera and various upper-crust house parties. Blah blah. Regency romance aficionados could write these parts in their sleep.

The less structured part of the novel involves magic. A burglar dressed like a gentleman attempts to steal a book from the Mairelon's library. Kim visits one of her former friends, a used clothes merchant, and learns that a moneylender of their acquaintance is scarpering up all of London's street magicians for his own nefarious purposes. Somehow, the moneylender coordinates an attack on one of the street witches, then Mairelon, himself. Both are stripped of their magic, and one eventually goes crazy.

Kim must somehow rescue her guardian and restore his magic while attending to the details of her coming-out ball, and all of the other fripperies and fribbles that Regency society demands of her.

This book is an improvement over its predecessor, "Mairelon the Magician" (1991), but Hutch is still chewing on his damn mustache, and most of the characters, with the exception of Kim and Mairelon are 'borrowed' whole-cloth from a million other regencies
Truly a magical mystery tour. I love stories where-in girls dress as boys. It's a bit Sherlock Holmes-ish. Reminds me a bit of the Mary Russell series by Laurie R. King. Lots of magic, and interesting theories about it. A happy read.
Just too predictable. Better than its predecessor, but the series and characters never rise above predictable and already-done-to-death by better authors. Just plain unoriginal and underdeveloped in plot and characterization.
The second book in this series I found it while attempting to find the first Mairelon the Magican. Was looking under Merlin the Magican but could not find it. Finally gave up and looked under Patrica Wrede, where I found this book as well. Full of laughter and mystery and even though their is some romance it is kept light hearted enough not to be to offensive. As with all her books well worth the read, I just wish their was a third to this set.