A review by spilled
Alchemy by Margaret Mahy
3.0
I checked this book out of the library solely because of this sentence in the book jacket description that cracked me up:
"Why has a shady magician from Roland's past suddenly come back into his life?"
Turned out to be a pretty good book, as far as YA goes, one of those "realizing one's magical powers of being in extreme harmony with the universe whilst realizing girl you never talked to in school who's all into books about alchemy is actually sort of hot in her own intelligent-and-intriguing way, who knew, so let's simultaneously make out and take down the evil magician" books. Nice.
"Why has a shady magician from Roland's past suddenly come back into his life?"
Turned out to be a pretty good book, as far as YA goes, one of those "realizing one's magical powers of being in extreme harmony with the universe whilst realizing girl you never talked to in school who's all into books about alchemy is actually sort of hot in her own intelligent-and-intriguing way, who knew, so let's simultaneously make out and take down the evil magician" books. Nice.