Le Voleur de magie - Livre 4 est le quatrième tome de la série littéraire Le Voleur de magie écrite par Sarah Prineas et parue le 16 septembre 2014 aux États-Unis chez Harpercollins. Le titre provisoire Chimney Swifts a finalement été remplacé par le titre définitif Home. Le livre n'existe à ce jour pas en version française.
Révélations[]
Le livre était prévu pour paraître après la publication du troisième tome de la trilogie Winterling au début de 2014. Auparavant, deux nouvelles ont été publiées, une histoire courte sur le blog de Sarah Prineas sur la manière dont Conny recouvre la mémoire et une e-histoire par l'éditeur HarperCollins, appelée A Proper Wizard (Un sorcier correct).[1]
Le rôle que Conny doit jouer dans la cité de Wellmet maintenant qu'il est un puissant magicien et qu'il n'a plus sa place à l'Academicos est l'une des grandes questions du livre.[2]
Les relations de Conny avec les autres sont développées, bien sûr avec Nihil et Benet, mais également avec Sorbia. L'amitié des deux jeunes gens va connaître une période difficile.[3]
Larche joue un petit rôle dans le livre, il apparaît également dans A Proper Wizard. Il est devenu ami avec Conny.[4][5]
Il n'est pas exclu de voir le retour d'exil de Corneil.[6]
Il est par contre exclu de voir le père de Conny. Si jamais un Livre 5 voyait le jour, il apparaîtrait probablement à ce moment-là.[7]
Notes[]
Le livre est dédicacé à Charles Coleman Finlay : To Charles Coleman Finlay, without your mentorship, support, and friendship, I would not be a writer. Thanks, Charlie.
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↑A: Well, the third Winterling book, Moonkind, is out in January. After that, I’ll be focusing a lot more on the fourth MT book, including title and cover (I have seen a draft of the cover and it’s amazing! I can’t wait to reveal the color, which has been a big mystery). I still don’t know exactly when the fourth MT book will be out–sometime next fall. A long time to wait! But in not too long I’ll be posting a short story here on the blog (about Conn getting his memory back!), and my publisher will be doing a e-story about Conn called “A Proper Wizard” (not sure when that’s coming out either).
↑The magisters are very dubious about Conn’s ideas on the true nature of magic–they’re dangerous, revolutionary ideas, after all–and they don’t even really accept Conn as a fellow wizard. They pretty much can’t teach him anything at the academicos, so he can’t be a student there any more. What IS Conn exactly?? What role should he play in the city, now that he’s a powerful wizard?? That’s one of the big questions of book four.
↑Conn lived alone on the streets for a long time, so he still withholds a lot of himself, even from the people he loves and trusts, and his relationships still need to develop some more (as they do in book four, coming next year). He’s closest to Nevery, of course, and Benet, who are his “created family.” And he trusts Rowan completely, too, though their friendship hits a rough patch in the fourth book.
↑Keeston plays a small role in The Magic Thief: Home. And yes, Brumbee did take him on as an apprentice. He also plays a role–as Conn’s friend and fellow wizard–in the short e-story “A Proper Wizard” that is coming soon from my publisher!
↑Keeston will appear again in The Magic Thief: Home (book four), and in a short e-story that will come out from my publisher sometime before that. In The Magic Thief, Keeston was a bit of a bully, but he was the kind of kid, back then, who picked on others because his master, Pettivox, picked on him. Basically he didn’t know any better, and he was scared a lot of the time because his master asked him to do bad things–like spy on Nevery. At the same time, Conn has a feeling that Keeston wasn’t really a bad person, just a kid in a bad situation, and he was right about that. Since then, Keeston has served as Brumbee’s apprentice and he’s developed into a fine wizard and–as you’ll see in the story–a good friend to Conn.
↑As you know, people return to Wellmet even though they’ve been exiled (Nevery does at the beginning of The Magic Thief, and Conn does it at the end of book two and in The Magic Thief: Found!) So will Crowe be returning to Wellmet even though he was exiled from the city at the end of the first book? You’ll have to read book four to find out!!
↑Not in the fourth Magic Thief book. However, it IS something I’ve been thinking about. I’m pretty sure I know who Conn’s father is (not a character you’ve seen in any of the other books, somebody new), and if I do write a fifth MT book he’ll very likely be in it.
To Charles Coleman Finlay, without your mentorship, support, and friendship, I would not be a writer. Thanks, Charlie.
A: Well, the third Winterling book, Moonkind, is out in January. After that, I’ll be focusing a lot more on the fourth MT book, including title and cover (I have seen a draft of the cover and it’s amazing! I can’t wait to reveal the color, which has been a big mystery). I still don’t know exactly when the fourth MT book will be out–sometime next fall. A long time to wait! But in not too long I’ll be posting a short story here on the blog (about Conn getting his memory back!), and my publisher will be doing a e-story about Conn called “A Proper Wizard” (not sure when that’s coming out either).