I’ve been following this series off and on for years, reading each new book when I could find it. The writing isn’t stellar, but I love the characters. Books about young wizards are a dime a dozen now, but this series began quite a while ago—and Duane continues to have her own unique take on wizardry. One interesting aspect is that rather than consisting of a set of tricks or tools, wizardry itself is connected in a larger fashion to the universe as a whole, integrating concepts like energy and entropy. This particular book pulls in characters from all of the previous ones, reunion-style, as they tackle their largest challenge to date—the loss of wizardry itself.