Being the Odd Man Out

Title: The Wizard Heir
Author: Cinda Williams Chima
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 464
Genre: Fantasy/Young Adult
Series #: 2 of 3
Date Started: July 15, 2009
Date Finished: July 15, 2009

Rating: A

Description (from the publisher): Sixteen-year-old Seph McCauley has spent the past three years getting kicked out of one exclusive private school after another. And it's not his attitude that's the problem. It's the trail of magical accidents-lately, disasters-that follow in his wake. Seph is a wizard, orphaned and untrained--and his powers are escalating out of control.

After causing a tragic fire at an after-hours party, Seph is sent to the Havens, a secluded boys' school on the coast of Maine. At first, it seems like the answer to his prayers. Gregory Leicester, the headmaster, promises to train Seph in magic and initiate him into his mysterious order of wizards. But Seph's enthusiasm dampens when he learns that training comes at a steep cost, and that Leicester plans to use his students' powers to serve his own dangerous agenda.

In this companion novel to the exciting fantasy The Warrior Heir, everyone's got a secret to keep: Jason Haley, a fellow student who's been warned to keep away from Seph; the enchanter Linda Downey, who knew his parents; the rogue wizard Leander Hastings, and the warriors Jack Swift and Ellen Stephenson. This wizard war is one that Seph may not have the strength to survive.

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So I waited so long between reading this book (July 15), starting the review (July 28), and actually finishing said review (August 13), that I've forgotten a great deal of the things I wanted to say. Therefore this entry will be short and to the point:

This book rocked! The end. A