The Circle Opens · Book 1
Magic Steps
- Published
- 1 January 2000
- Pages
- 224
- ISBN-13
- 9780439968188
- Type
- novel
About this book
Magic Steps is the novel that opens Tamora Pierce's Circle Opens series, published in 2000. It's followed here by Street Magic. It's the natural place to begin the series, which ran to completion between 2000 and 2003 across 4 books. It's a direct sequel to the Circle of Magic quartet, tracked separately in this catalogue, and assumes the same four characters and their established magical bond.
Its place in The Circle Opens
Magic Steps is book 1 in the The Circle Opens series. It is followed by Street Magic. See the full The Circle Opens reading order.
The Circle Opens picks up a few years after Circle of Magic, sending Sandry, Tris, Daja, and Briar out from Winding Circle to take on their own students and travels, one book per character in a rotating structure similar to the first quartet's but now centered on each of the four as a young teacher rather than a student. Each volume follows one of the four -- Sandry's diplomatic troubleshooting in a city gripped by mob violence, Briar's discovery of a street-magic student whose gift connects to a criminal…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780439968188