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For Kip, growing up in shadow of the human men-only Prince George's College of Sorcery has been nineteen years of frustration. Magic comes naturally to him, yet he's not allowed to study sorcery because he's a Calatian--one of a magically created race of animal people. But when a mysterious attack leaves the masters desperate for apprentices, they throw their doors open, giving Kip his chance. As he fights to prove his worth to the human sorcerers, he encounters other oddities: a voice that speaks only to him, a book that makes people forget he's there, and one of the masters who will only speak to him through a raven. Greater than any of those mysteries or even whether the College's attacker will return to finish the job is the mystery of how Kip and his friends can prove that this place is where they belong...… (more)
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Kip is a
The setting is colonial america, with Independence just starting to be considered by the uprising Separatist Movement, and obviously the parallels to slavery are clear and obvious, but not massively belabored. It works well, it's a clever setting interesting characters, the expected bully, reluctant and unbelieving teachers, and wider back-story that slowly emerges.
Looking forward to the rest of the series
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