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This is the second quartet set in the mythical world of Tortall. This book is based on a average farm girl that has a skill with natural world. I liked this book quite a lot as it was based on a character more or less around my age, and it made me able to relate to it better. This book doesn't have any romance in it, it stills makes you crave it. Wild Magic plays dances around in your mind, and it pulls at the strings of your imagination.

I liked how this book didn't have a hidden fantasy world from which everyone doesn't know about but the main character and the reader. But I didn't like how it wasn't in anyone's perspective, and I didn't feel as much as I would of if it was in first person perspective.

I loved how Daine was just an average person, not a noble or anything fancy, just plain normal. But she had skills that changed her life, and made her better than every noble. I loved how she was the best archer, because I have always loved reading about that, as you can truly prove your worth with a bow and arrow.

Thirteen-year-old DaIne has always had a knack with animals, but it's not until she's forced to leave home that she realizes it's more than a knack -- it's magic. With this wild magic, not only can Daine speak to animals, but also she can make them obey her. Daine takes a job handling horses for the Queen's Riders, where she meets the master mage Numair and becomes his student.

Under Numair's guidance, Daine explores the scope of her magic. But she begins to sense other beings too: immortals. These bloodthirsty monsters have been imprisoned in the Divine Realms for the past four hundred years, but now someone has broken the barrier. It's up to Daine and her friends to defend their world from an immortal attack.

This book is set a number of years after the Song of the Lioness quartet. In the books that follow, you get to see what has happened in those years.

I think this book is truly worth reading if you loved the Song of the Lioness quartet, or if you love mystical worlds, with powerful magic and an ancient kingdom, then this book is for you.