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Moonlight

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Susan Dexter is my favorite author. After several novels (the Ring of Allaire series, now out of print but well worth searching for) she has changed her target slightly and written for a young teen audience. The book is only 128 pages long, the print is reader friendly (nicely spaced) and the plot has been trimmed of excess complexities. But the characters remain. Readers of the Ring of Allaire will enjoy the chance to see the beginning for Tristan the clumsy apprentice, Thomas the sarcastic familiar (a talking cat only Tristan is forced to listen to, though his advice can be useful) and finally a chance to see Tristan's long suffering master, Blais the sorcerer (a cameo, alas).

Tristan gets lead into a great quest of wizardry, and a decision that will shape his young destiny, by the merest of hapstance. Is it a curse of bad luck? Wild wizard's chance? Or just fate lending a hand?

I have read all of Susan Dexter's Esdragon books, so it was thrilling to find this prequel to the Ring of Allaire. Moonlight is a tale of a much younger Tristan, a bumbling apprentice wizard for whom nothing ever seems to go right. This Tale has many little touches which tie it in with the previous trilogy. We see how he meets Thomas the cat, where he finds his silver Unicorn belt buckle, and even the origins of Minstrel. We meet Blaise, his long-suffering wizard master. We follow Tristan on an adventure spurred on by one mishap after another which ends in Tristan saving a Unicorn. With the Unicorn's power, he could be the most powerful wizard in the world, but the Unicorn yearns for freedom. Tristan has to make a heart-wrenching decision... If you like this, try her others: The Ring of Allaire, The Sword of Calandra, and The Mountains of Channadran.

this story is about a boy, tristan. tristan is an apprentice wizard whose adventures go wrong until he is followed home by a talking cat. they have a few adventures together setting right all the things that go wrong for the boy. they even rescue a unicorn. i love this story, and i hope susan dexter writes more about thomas the cat and his human, tristan.