{"id":4718,"date":"2013-08-01T16:36:09","date_gmt":"2013-08-01T21:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/?p=4718"},"modified":"2013-08-01T16:36:09","modified_gmt":"2013-08-01T21:36:09","slug":"the-magicians-guild-trudi-canavan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2013\/08\/01\/the-magicians-guild-trudi-canavan\/","title":{"rendered":"The Magician&#8217;s Guild &#8212; Trudi Canavan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pictures\/books\/magicians-guild.jpg\" width=\"233\" height=\"391\" alt=\"Cover of The Magician's Guild\"  class=\"alignleft\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"small\"><strong><br \/>\nThe Magician&#8217;s Guild<br \/>\nTrudi Canavan<br \/>\n465 pages<br \/>\npublished in 2001<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\nTrudi Canavan is an Austrialian fantasy writer who has been mostly writing epic fantasy trilogies and has become rather popular as a result. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Trudi_Canavan\">According to Wikipedia<\/a>, her first series, <cite>The Black Magician Trilogy<\/cite> was &#8221; the most successful debut fantasy series of the last 10 years&#8221;. <cite>The Magician&#8217;s Guild<\/cite>in the first book in that series as well as her debut novel, which I didn&#8217;t know when I picked it from the library to read. It was just that this was the only of her novels available that wasn&#8217;t part two or three of a trilogy when I decided to try and see if I would like her writing.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nWhat also made me pick up this book in particular when skipping past seemingly similar fantasy books by other writers was the backcover blurb, which made it sounds like it was something more than the usual fantasy cliches in the usual medievaloid setting:\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nEach year the magicians of Imardin gather to purge the city streets of vagrants, urchins and miscreants. Masters of the disciplines of magic, they know nobody can oppose them. But their protective shield is not as impenetrable as they believe.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\n<a href=\"\/books2\/2013\/08\/the-magicians-guild-trudi-canavan\/\">Read more<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Magician&#8217;s Guild Trudi Canavan 465 pages published in 2001 Trudi Canavan is an Austrialian fantasy writer who has been mostly writing epic fantasy trilogies and has become rather popular as a result. According to Wikipedia, her first series, The Black Magician Trilogy was &#8221; the most successful debut fantasy series of the last 10 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,137],"tags":[1760,1761],"class_list":["post-4718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-review","category-fantasy","tag-the-magicians-guild","tag-trudi-canavan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4718"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4719,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4718\/revisions\/4719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}