#43 in Young adult
Wild Magic
- 344
- Pages
- about 6 h
- Reading time
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Our view
“Wild Magic” is a light, funny fantasy about a girl whose magic lets her speak with and heal animals. It begins Tamora Pierce’s Immortals quartet, and some readers enjoy the likeable characters, the capable women and the return of familiar faces from the Alanna books. Some place it nearer middle grade than young adult: simply written, with a plot that holds. The shifts in point of view briefly confuse some readers.
The view of the BookRank editors, written from readers’ ratings and comments. It does not affect the score or the book’s place in a ranking.
About the book
Wild Magic is a fantasy novel by Tamora Pierce, the first in a series of four books, The Immortals. It details the emergence of the powers of Veralidaine Sarrasri as a wild mage and her coming to Tortall.
Reading order · The Immortals (Tamora Pierce)
Full order & progress →- Wild MagicThis book
8.38.3 / 10 - Wolf-Speaker
8.18.1 / 10 - Emperor Mage
8.28.2 / 10 - The Realms of the Gods
8.18.1 / 10
Where the score comes from
The sources average 8.5 across 215 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 59% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Young adult average of 7.8. That is how 8.3 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 9.2 | 26 | 12% |
| Hardcover | 8.4 | 189 | 88% |
Frequently asked
What age is Wild Magic for?
Wild Magic sits on the Young adult shelf in the sources we use, which by convention means roughly ages 13 and up. This is a guide from the book’s category, not a publisher’s age rating. It has 344 pages — shorter than 90% of the ranked books in Young adult.
In this book
Themes this book shares with others — each leads to the best books on it.
If you liked this
Same shelf — Young adult — with scores between 7.9 and 8.4, closest to this book.
