Games Wizards Play
Games Wizards Play by Diane Duane is a reprint edition published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company on February 21, 2017. This 619-page book is written in English and revolves around the Invitational, a significant event held every eleven years where young wizards showcase their skills. The story follows wizardly partners Kit Rodriguez and Nita Callahan, along with Nita’s sister Dairine Callahan, as they mentor two promising yet challenging young wizards, Penn Shao-Feng and Mehrnaz Farrahi, during this intense competition.
Readers will find themselves immersed in a narrative filled with magic, contests, and the complexities of mentorship. As Kit and Nita navigate the dynamics of their protégés, they face various challenges, including Penn’s difficult personality and Dairine’s struggle with family expectations. The competition escalates as both candidates advance to the finals on the Moon, leading to a climactic conflict that has the potential to impact the solar system significantly. This edition offers a rich exploration of themes related to wizardry and the pressures of competition within a fantastical framework.
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Every eleven years, Earth’s senior wizards hold the Invitational: an intensive three-week event where the planet’s newest, sharpest young wizards show off their best and hottest spells. Wizardly partners Kit Rodriguez and Nita Callahan, and Nita’s sister, former wizard-prodigy Dairine Callahan, are drafted in to mentor two brilliant and difficult cases: for Nita and Kit, there’s Penn Shao-Feng, a would-be sun technician with a dangerous new take on managing solar weather; and for Dairine, there’s shy young Mehrnaz Farrahi, an Iranian wizard-girl trying to specialize in defusing earthquakes while struggling with a toxic extended wizardly family that demands she perform to their expectations.
Together they’re plunged into a whirlwind of cutthroat competition and ruthless judging. Penn’s egotistical attitude toward his mentors complicates matters as the pair tries to negotiate their burgeoning romance. Meanwhile, Dairine struggles to stabilize her hero-worshipping, insecure protégée against the interference of powerful relatives using her to further their own tangled agendas. When both candidates make it through to the finals stage on the dark side of the Moon, they and their mentors are flung into a final conflict that could change the solar system for the better . . .
or damage Earth beyond even wizardly repair.
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