Trudi Canavan's The Magicians' Guild
The first book in the Black Magician trilogy is kind of slow, but I enjoyed it anyway. It’s about a young girl in the slums who discovers she has magic powers, and now the powerful magicians' guild is tracking her down, because if she doesn’t learn to control her powers, she'll basically blow up and take a city block with her. But like that is the entire first half of the book! You know she's gonna end up with the magicians eventually, so just GET there already. And there's interesting conflict there—they’re all rich snobby assholes (even the non assholes are very classist), and one in particular has it out for her, and he’s very menacing! Plus she has to learn magic stuff! The very end sets up bigger stakes, too. I am hoping the second book is slightly more eventful. B+.
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