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My son and I both love fantasy fiction, and we’re both suckers for ARCs from beloved authors… So, when I heard that Holly Black<\/a> and Cassandra Clare<\/a> were writing a middle-grade fantasy series together, I just knew I had to get my hands on a copy of this ARC. \u00a0(The good news for anyone reading this review is that the book came out September 9th and you can read it without scheming to find an ARC!)<\/p>\n And do you know what was even better than opening a random, unexpected package to find a copy of this ARC? \u00a0When it arrived in the mail on the very day that we were ready to start a new book. \u00a0Awesomesauce! \u00a0I knew these authors were awesome and that a collaboration between them was likely to be epic, but I also kind of\u00a0expected that this book would be somewhat formulaic and predictable, like many of the other middle-grade fantasies I’ve read.\u00a0 Thankfully, I was wrong. \u00a0Although there were some parallels to other books we’ve read, the story was fresh and there were a couple of plot twists that blew our minds!<\/p>\n Callum’s father has always taught him that magic is bad and that the Magisterium, a school that teaches adolescents how to hone their magical abilities, is evil.\u00a0 So, when Callum had to go in to test his magical acuity at the Magisterium, he did his best to fail. \u00a0For some reason, nevertheless, Master Rufus chose Callum to be one of his apprentices.\u00a0 Even though neither he nor his father wanted him to attend, being selected meant that Callum had to go to the Magisterium… As soon as he started to learn how to use his magic and began to make friends, though, Callum started to wonder if maybe his dad was wrong after all…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" My son and I both love fantasy fiction, and we’re both suckers for ARCs from beloved authors… So, when I heard that Holly Black and Cassandra Clare were writing a middle-grade fantasy series together, I just knew I had to get my hands on a copy of this ARC. \u00a0(The good news for anyone reading … Continue reading The Iron Trial: Book One of The Magisterium by Holly Black and Cassandra Clare<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5,6,8,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-books-for-children","category-books-for-young-adults","category-fiction","category-reviewed-by-chrissie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2850\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}