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Rate: 4/5

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Medium: Audiobook

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Overview (No Spoilers):

The Magician’s Daughter is a whimsically eloquent coming of age story that is filled with mystery and half truths. Biddy has spent almost her entire life isolated on the magical island of Hy-Brasil being raised by the magician Rowan, and his rabbit familiar, Hutchincroft. At sixteen years old, she is impatient to see the world, but she soon gets more than she wished for when the world comes looking for her. 

Biddy is such a fun character to follow as she views the world through such innocent, but clever eyes. As Biddy ventures out into the real world she soon finds herself the center of magicians’ political and ethical squabbling. As a result, her history as she understood it is far more complex than she ever could have imagined, straining the only true relationships she’s ever known. Rowan is an eccentric character who is rather hard to like, though in all honesty, before we get a chance to know him others fill in the void with lies. Well perhaps there were some truths to the disparaging descriptions and Rowan does seem to be a chronic weaver of half truths. That aside, real gem of The Magician’s Daughter is sweet but feisty Hutchincroft. Rowan’s familiar is full of personality that shines whether he is in his rabbit or human form. His role throughout this novel is so pronounced that it really lends to the horror to the sacrifice the other magicians made for the sake of magic. 

The pacing through out The Magician’s Daughter is easy and steady as the reader effortlessly gets swept up into Biddy’s dangerous adventure out into the real world. I couldn’t stop listening to this read, shocked when I found myself already near the end of Biddy’s story. 

Overall, Parry weaves a dark but beautiful world in The Magician’s Daughter that starts with a relatively small mystery that evolves into a crisis threatening all of magic. The Magician’s Daughter will not be a read you regret diving into. 

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Additional Insight (Spoilers Abound): 

• If the magical island only shows up ever seven years how can Rowan continually find it? Especially when he and Biddy both leave? A candle seemed to be the answer but if it was that easy couldn’t others find the candle?
• Who are Biddy’s real parents?
• I love that Hutchincroft how can speak to Biddy. Since she when into the interdimensional rift and Hutchincroft found her is he part her familiar too?
• Could Biddy really have not wielded magic?

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