Trudi Canavan, The Black Magician Trilogy Review

Overall Rating

The first half of the first book drags as if it has been forcefully legnthened. the scene in the slums and the time with the theives although important to the plot is tooo long and could have been expressed in a slightly more concise way.

An excellent fantasy adventure trilogy. one of the few really wonderful realistic worlds that are quite rare to come across. The plot twists and turns keep you on the edge of your seat throughout the book. impossible to put down. the black magician trilogy is a really wonderful, magnificent read.
the characters draw you in and the plot sweeps you away into a magical world of magicians. sonea is an ordinary girl and through the book she grows and changes into a powerful magicaian, possibly one of the most powerful magicians ever, and finally after gaining all that power, she is still a simple, caring girl who wants to use her powers, to help people and thus she takes up the work of a healer.
and Akkarin is just as wonderful character. strong and important he exudes power. but although he is portrayed as a evil character in the first half of the trilogy you just cant stop liking him and hoping that everybody is wrong about him and that he really is good.
the best part is the love story between them. it is so intense, and finally so tragic that you cant help feeling a terrible loss when Akkarin dies. i for one really didn't expect it, it came as a shock, just as it must have come as such a shock to Sonea to realise that finally, when they had finally won, after everything that she had been through, what she loved the most was the one thing that was taken from her when she could finally be happy. but it is also consoling in the end when we find out that she is pregnant.
overall a wonderful book. thoroughly enjoyed it. am waiting for the sequel.