The Wizard Heir by Cinda Williams Chima

     NOTE:  If you want to understand this book fully, you should read "The Warrior Heir."  This book is not exactly a sequel to "The Warrior Heir," but it does build off its information.

     Seph McCauley is not your everyday kid.  In fact, he is a Wizard.  He is part of the Weir, or the magical guilds of people who have special powers.  Seph is not trained in Wizardry, so he tends to have a lot of accidents, like burning down a warehouse and killing one of his best friends.  Luckily, Seph gains some training at the all boys' school in Maine called the Havens.  However, he doesn't get it from the person you would expect, which is from the headmaster of the school, who is also a Wizard.  When Seph refuses to link to the evil headmaster, Gregory Leicester, he gets very mad.  He will stop at nothing to get to Seph. 

     When Seph finally escapes the Havens and the torture that Leicester has put him through, including nightmares and hallucinations, he heads to the sanctuary where nobody can hurt him in Trinity, Ohio.  However, this peace cannot last.  While sailing with his friend Jack Swift (the main character and narrator of "The Warrior Heir"), Seph gets caught by Leicester again..  He has an epic battle in which he defeats Leicester and frees all of the Alumni, which are Leicester's human slaves.  He also learns who his real parents are, and gains some friends. 

     Overall, this is a pretty good book.  I thought it was better than "The Warrior Heir."  This  book held plenty of action for me and helped me realize how power hungry some people can be.  One thing that really bugged me was that there was a character at the beginning of the book who never gets mentioned again.  Besides that fact, I thought that the plot turns that this book features were very interesting to read.   So, I would recommend this book to almost anyone.  I would give it a grade of an A.