Kirkus: “Games Wizards Play”
Apprentices become teachers, friendships turn to romance, and long-simmering subplots achieve resolution in the 10th entry of this well-loved fantasy series. Kit, Nita, and Nita’s sister, Dairine, are...
View ArticleB&N Kids: “The Adventures of the Young Wizards Continue in ‘Games Wizards Play'”
Way back in 1983 when I was still a kid, I read a great book–So You Want to be a Wizard, by Diane Duane. It was the story of two ordinary kids, Kit and Nita, who find out that they can do magic, and...
View ArticleIO9: “Games Wizards Play” Is a Book That Rewards Fans More Than Anyone
On Tuesday, the tenth book in Diane Duane’s Young Wizards series was published. It is not for casual readers. It is really just for fans. Games Wizards Play concerns a competition called “the...
View ArticleThe SLATE Book Review: “Indistinguishable from Magic”
“In the fantasy world of Diane Duane, whose cult favorite young-adult Young Wizards series began more than 30 years ago and continues this month with a new novel, the 10th, power is made manifest...
View ArticleLiterally, Darling: “A Magical Addition to a Magical Series”
It has been six years, six long years, since Diane Duane has blessed us with a Young Wizards novel, but she’s returned in full force with the tenth book in the series, Games Wizards Play. Every 11...
View Articleio9: “Diane Duane’s Young Wizards Is The Fantasy Book Series Everyone Should...
Diane Duane’s Young Wizards series is a truly great fantasy universe. It’s so perfect, I actually don’t want anybody to adapt it for TV or movies. Instead, everybody should hunt these books down and...
View ArticleFrom STRANGE HORIZONS: “The Young Wizards”
A long and thoughtful review of the entire series by Electra Pritchett. There are certain authors in SFF who seem to be perpetually flying under the radar, rendering their fanbases secret clubs even...
View ArticleFantasyFaction: “So You Want To Be A Wizard”
From FantasyFaction, November 17, 2016: What I love most about this series isn’t the magic, though that in itself is fascinating. Diane Duane has created a system of magic which is based on science,...
View ArticleFantasy Faction: DEEP WIZARDRY
This time, the way to defeat the Lone Power isn’t to sneak about a nightmare version of Manhattan to smuggle a book out from under his nose. Instead, there is a ritual: a great song performed by whale...
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