{"id":196,"date":"2008-09-30T22:18:55","date_gmt":"2008-10-01T02:18:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/30\/review-of-the-wizard-test-by-hilari-bell\/"},"modified":"2008-10-13T17:34:02","modified_gmt":"2008-10-13T21:34:02","slug":"review-of-the-wizard-test-by-hilari-bell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=196","title":{"rendered":"Review of The Wizard Test, by Hilari Bell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image228\" height=\"110\" alt=\"wizard_test.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/wizard_test.jpg\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The Wizard Test<\/em><\/p>\n<p>by Hilari Bell<\/p>\n<p>eos (HarperCollins), 2005.\u00a0 166 pages.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.harpercollischildrens.com\/\">http:\/\/www.harpercollischildrens.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfwa.org\/members\/bell\">www.sfwa.org\/members\/bell<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve definitely become a fan of Hilari Bell&#8217;s writing.\u00a0 Like The Prophecy, The Wizard Test is a fantasy for middle grade readers that takes a classic idea and digs deeper.<\/p>\n<p>Dayven does not want to pass the Wizard Test.\u00a0 He does not want to have the powers of wizards and be taken as an apprentice.\u00a0 Everyone knows that wizards can&#8217;t be trusted.\u00a0 His grandmother, who may have passed her wizard talents on to him, was a traitor to her people.<\/p>\n<p>No, Dayven wants to be a Guardian like his father.<\/p>\n<p>But what if the Guardians ask him to go ahead and apprentice to the wizards?\u00a0 After all, they need someone to find out what the wizards are up to.\u00a0 The only trouble is that Dayven finds things a little more complicated than he had been led to believe.<\/p>\n<p>This is another excellent story.\u00a0 I didn&#8217;t find myself as absorbed in it as I was in The Prophecy.\u00a0 My personal theory is that\u00a0Dayven didn&#8217;t pass the Not Whining Test.\u00a0 Where Perryndon of The Prophecy accepted difficult circumstances with pluck, Dayven grumbles and complains.\u00a0 However, this book was written earlier than The Prophecy, so I think it goes to show that Hilari Bell went from very good writing on to greatness.\u00a0 I&#8217;m looking forward to reading more of her work.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0060599421\/sonderbooksco-20\" target=\"outside\">Buy from Amazon.com<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>Find this review on the main site at:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Childrens_Fiction\/wizard_test.html\">www.sonderbooks.com\/Childrens_Fiction\/wizard_test.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Wizard Test by Hilari Bell eos (HarperCollins), 2005.\u00a0 166 pages. http:\/\/www.harpercollischildrens.com\/ www.sfwa.org\/members\/bell I&#8217;ve definitely become a fan of Hilari Bell&#8217;s writing.\u00a0 Like The Prophecy, The Wizard Test is a fantasy for middle grade readers that takes a classic idea and digs deeper. Dayven does not want to pass the Wizard Test.\u00a0 He does not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-childrens-fiction-review","category-fantasy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}