The Magician's Apprentice
- 496
- Pages
- about 9 h
- Reading time
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Our view
“The Magician’s Apprentice” works as a stand-alone prequel: the Kyralia–Sachaka war as a young village magician lives it. It is set centuries before the “Black Magician” trilogy, and some readers who know those books value it for showing where their enmities and their guild came from. Others find that the ending leaves threads untied.
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About the book
The Magician's Apprentice is a fantasy novel by author Trudi Canavan. It was published in February 2009, and is a stand-alone prequel telling a story occurring hundreds of years before her bestselling Black Magician Trilogy. It tells the story of a war between Kyralia and Sachaka through the eyes of Tessia, a young woman and magician from a countryside village. The novel won the Aurealis Award 2009 for the best fantasy novel.
Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.7 across 109 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 43% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Fantasy average of 8.0. That is how 7.9 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hardcover | 7.7 | 101 | 93% |
| Google Books | 8.0 | 8 | 7% |
Frequently asked
How long is The Magician's Apprentice?
It has 496 pages — shorter than 59% of the ranked books in Fantasy.
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