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Overview

Part of the 8-book Tamora Pierce reissue for Fall 2006, this title in the Circle Opens quartet features spellbinding new cover art. Coincides with the release of WILL OF THE EMPRESS in trade pb.

Kethlun Warder was a gifted glassmaker until his world was shattered in a freak accident. Now his remaining glass magic is mixed with lightning, and Tris must teach him to control it (if she can teach him to control his temper first). But there's more at stake than Keth's education. With his strange magic, he creates glass balls that reflect the immediate past and expose the work of a murderer. If he can harness his power properly, he'll be able to see the crimes as they take place. Keth and Tris race against time, and the local authorities, to identify a killer who's living in plain sight.

Tris and her mage-student, a young man whose glassmaking magic has been amplified and mixed with lightning, team up to track a killer who may be nearer than they suspect.

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Bestselling fantasy author Tamora Pierce continues the Circle Opens series in this fourth energizing book filled with lightning magic and a killer on the loose.

When Tris Chandler -- a 14-year-old lightning mage whose braids contain spellbinding magic -- meets Keth Warder, she sees instantly that the older glassblower has his own lightning skills yet to be harnessed. Tris soon becomes his all-knowing teacher, and the two discover that Keth's electricity-filled glass balls can produce images of near-past events. Unfortunately, the town of Tharios also has a ghostly murderer stalking young girls (much to the chagrin of Dema Nomasdina, the investigator), but as Keth further develops his magic, his glass creations become crucial to finding the killer before he or she takes another victim.

Using the vivid descriptions and in-depth characters that her fans have come to appreciate in her work, Pierce winds up her quartet with a powerhouse that will keep you entranced to the end. The author's own magic doesn't lie only in the exciting plotline; it shines through in each scene, letting each personality play off another with fantastic style and finesse. Another Pierce page-turner that'll keep young audiences fired up for other tales. Shana Taylor

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Tamora Pierce closes her The Circle Opens quartet of fantasy novels with Shatterglass. Tris, the weather mage introduced in the previous series, Circle of Magic, now travels to Tharios, where a glassmaker's magic may help him identify a serial killer-if Tris can teach him how to use his power. Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.
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Tris—of the mighty temper to match the braided lightning in her red hair—learned to control her weather magics in Pierce's earlier fantasy quartet, "Circle of Magic." Now she is four years older and closing the "Circle Opens" quartet. The fourteen-year-old mage finds her hands full when she is assigned her first student. Keth is a lightning-shy glassmaker with a temper equal to her own. When their studies are complicated by a serial killer on the loose in the ancient city of Khapik, Trish enters its carny world of entertainers with only her great bear of a dog, and Chime, her living glass dragon, as backup. Pierce creates a classic murder mystery/police procedural inside her fantasy world. It's an amusing exercise within the parameters of a priesthood class whose sole aim is to eradicate all evidence of crime before the constabulary can do their work. As a result, of course, Tris must become the bait for the next strike of the murderer. Pierce seems to enjoy stretching the boundaries of her mock-medieval landscape and genre. With amusing characters like Tris, it seems a pity to close the storyline at this point. Then again, there is always the possibility of a new quartet a few years further along in the lives of Tris and her adopted siblings. 2003, Scholastic,
— Kathleen Karr

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780590396967
  • Publisher: Scholastic, Inc.
  • Publication date: 3/1/2004
  • Pages: 368
  • Sales rank: 97,937
  • Age range: 12 - 11 Years
  • Series: Circle Opens Series, #4
  • Product dimensions: 4.15 (w) x 6.75 (h) x 0.95 (d)

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Tamora Pierce lives in Syracuse, New York, with her husband, Tim, five cats, two birds, and various freeloading wildlife. Visit her online at www.tamorapierce.com.

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  • Posted February 4, 2012

    Highly recommended

    This series is awesome!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 6, 2011

    Wonderful

    This novel is the perfect ending to this quartet of Tamora Pierce's. It was an amazing story of one persnicky young girl and the man she must teach. Their journey toward knowledge is highly entertaining.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 6, 2011

    Mind absorbing plots, amazing charecters

    The cover and spin of the book are a little on the cheaply made side but besides that its great. I've read the book twice sense buying it just a month or so ago. I can't wait to buy the rest of the books in the series.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted February 23, 2011

    Highly Recommended-you will need to reread it over and over again.

    Book is awesome. The whole series is awesome. It made me want to reread it again and again. Lots of imagination in the books. Loveeeeee themmmmmm sooooooo muchhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  • Posted August 24, 2009

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    Excellent read

    Tamora Pierce did it again. Wonderful book & a nice ending to the series. Young & old alike would enjoy this one very much. Hightly recommend it.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted November 3, 2007

    A reviewer

    I found this story to be an amazing continuation of Tris's story. Highly recommended.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted June 26, 2006

    Please!!!!!!!!!!!!

    I love this series dont let it end here! But i guess it's for the best. I recommend these books to anyone who will listen to me they are great.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 4, 2006

    LOVE IT

    OMG i loved this book so much, i was amazed that Tamora would think of this, i am in love with this entire series

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 29, 2006

    Shatterglass (Circle Opens Series #4)

    This book is pathetically bad. The plot is the same as the others. It's an insult to her books, as her Tortall books are AMAZING! I would give this less stars if I could.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 29, 2006

    Shatterglass (Circle Opens Series #4)

    Okay, but no as good as her Tortall series.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 17, 2005

    Super!!

    This book was the best out of the circle opens series. I love Tris and think this book is the best. Seeing how she grows from a surly ten-year-old to a well-raised fourteen-year-old was great. Seeing how Tris teaches and how she cares for Glaki and Chime. Not to mention how the plot of the story is affecting the characters. This book rocks!!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted October 14, 2004

    fave tp book!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Very gooooood.my fave tpbook of all of them. i think she outdid herself. great. better than trickster's chioice. i love this book!!!!!!1

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  • Anonymous

    Posted September 12, 2004

    I love Tris...

    Tris is so awesome in this book She is byfar the most interesting our of Briar, Sandry, Daja, and herself. I love her power and this book gives such great detail about it and how it can be hazardous.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 8, 2004

    Dude, totally sweet!

    OMG!!! This book is by far one of her best! As always, tris is as sweet as a lemon but still way cool. anyone who loves fantasy will love this as well as any of pierce's other books.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 16, 2004

    I love this quartet!

    This is SO the best book in the quartet! I love Tris, she's my favorite character, and her power is so intriguing! I loved all of them, but this is the best!!!!!!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted June 4, 2004

    Magical

    This book was a marvelous ending to a fantastic series. When I finshed the book the first time, I was so impressed that I had to read it again.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 26, 2004

    Wonderful

    I was crying for two reasons when i finished this book. 1) because the book was wonderful and 2) because it was the last in the series. You can't believe that it's the end but it was such a great way to end a magical series. Tris's adventure was just as exciting as the others but this adventure isn't something you would think tris would get. It's amazing how much she has grown and strength and power. I know you'll all join me when i say I hope tamora pierce will be inspired once more and come out with new adventures of the magical four!!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 5, 2004

    a good book

    this book is one of the best I'v read witch is saying somthing I'v read almost all Tamora pierces books

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 29, 2003

    BEST BOOK!!!!!!!!!

    This book is great!!! It will captivate all readers' minds as they enjoy its suspenseful (but strangely morbid) plot. The characters are enveloped in an enticing mystery, so enticing that all readers of this book will be tempted to read ahead into the last chapter (though most everyone would be much more interested if they read all the pages instead, and not just the last chapter). I recomend this book to anyone who has at the very least a small taste for magic and fantasy in the books they read (as well as taste for suspense). Anyone from a fantasy fanatic to the most minimum magic liker will like this book.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted November 12, 2003

    CAN YOU SPELL AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!?????????

    THIS BOOK IS AWESOME AND HER DRAGON IS SOOOOO CUTE!!!!!!!!!!PLEASE READ THIS BOOK!!!!!!!! i LOVED IT I KNOW U WILL!!!!!!!!

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