The Warrior Heir
Common theme: magic prodigies
Author: Cinda Williams Chima
Series: The Heir Chronicles
Publisher: New York: Hyperion Books for Children, c2006
Teenage
protagonist Jack is led to believe he’s a regular kid who needs medication for
health reasons, until he fails to take his medicine and discovers the
near-tragic power he is capable of.
Jack later learns
he comes from a magical group known at the Weirlind. The Weirlind are divided
into two opposing houses: the Red Rose and the White Rose that regularly battle
it out in deadly duels to determine who is the ruling house.Things turn dire
for Jack when he finds himself to be an elligble player for the upcoming duel.
This story is similar
to Harry Potter in that the protagonist is a young child who grows up in a
mundane world with unfavourable conditions, and then later learn their identity
and true destiny is something entirley different and beyond their experience of
reality. Both series’ feature magic and wizards, and both are compelling in
their writing.
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