Deep Wizardry

Extract: I read this book for my SF book club's February selection. I'm not a connoisseur of young adult SF/fantasy, but have read some. The other contender for February, another YA novel, was "Sorcery and Cecelia" by Patricia Wrede and Caroline Stevermer. That book was wonderful, so much so that I read the second book in the series and have the third one waiting in the wings. "Deep Wizardry" in comparison was, well, meh…