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Drawing from hundreds of interviews conducted throughout adolescence with black, Latino, white, and Asian American boys, Deep Secrets reveals the ways in which we have been telling ourselves a false story about boys, friendships, and human nature. Vulnerable emotions and intimate friendships are for girls and gay men. These findings are alarming, given what we know about links between friendships and health, and even longevity.
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From the bestselling author of Tripping the Prom Queen comes a fascinating and provocative look at the reasons behind female deception. Little White Lies, Deep Dark Secrets reveals how society doles out mixed messages to women, fostering the lies they tell. There are secrets to everything. There are secrets the enemy does not want you to have. Uncovered serpent is a powerless serpent. DMCA and Copyright : The book is not hosted on our servers, to remove the file please contact the source url.
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Your Rating:. Rupert's territory includes Earth and the Empire of Korfyros. When his mentor dies Rupert must find a replacement. But there are hundreds of candidates. How is he supposed to choose? And interviewin Rupert Venables is a Magid. And interviewing each one could take forever.
What if he could round them all up in one place? Get A Copy. Paperback , pages. Published November 15th by Starscape first published More Details Original Title. Nick Mallory. Wantchester , United Kingdom. Other Editions Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about Deep Secret , please sign up. Do you have to read this series in order or can I read the second book first? Margaret I read the second one about 10 years ago and only just found out about this one now, so I think you're okay either way.
See all 5 questions about Deep Secret…. Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 4. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Start your review of Deep Secret Magids, 1. Aug 30, Lightreads rated it really liked it Shelves: young-adult , fantasy , fiction. It is sweet and silly and one of those stories where every plot thread converges in a charmingly improbable bow with built in deus ex machina.
But still kind. I love her like this, writing about grownups but for young people. Rather than a lot of her books about children for children, which often bore me. She had this way of writing about adults for children that keeps them from being aliens. Just a keen eye and a steady hand, that was her. View 2 comments. I'm a great fan of Diana Wynne Jones' work and came to this book with high expectations.
However, I was left a little disappointed although there is a lot of good writing and interesting set pieces, possibly because h I'm a great fan of Diana Wynne Jones' work and came to this book with high expectations. However, I was left a little disappointed although there is a lot of good writing and interesting set pieces, possibly because her characters didn't 'grab' quite as much as usual, and there were pacing and structural problems.
Magids are wizards who are responsible for keeping the multiverse, of which Earth is a tiny part, in balance. Magids have various abilities, a key one being that they can travel from one world to another to get to wherever their services are required. Rupert is stuck with the responsibility of helping a particularly nasty Empire world that has a number of other worlds under its thumb. Early on in the story he has to attend a trial there, where he is shocked by the Emperor's verdict.
Soon afterwards, a major incident puts the whole Empire in jeopardy, and over the course of the book, Rupert is increasingly drawn in to try to help those who are fending off a civil war. When he returns from the trial, he discovers that his mentor Stan is dying.
Stan gives him a list of possible replacements, as Rupert will no longer be the junior Magid and must train the new junior. The first candidate he manages to track down is Maree who is completely impossible - so impossible that I found I disliked her also and the effect was slow to wear off. Another character, a year old boy Nick, is Maree's best friend.
He is totally self centred so is also rather irritating. He goes on to appear in the second Magid story, The Merlin Conspiracy. After the first few chapters the story suddenly switches to Maree's POV, at which point I realised she was going to be important, and we do gradually learn why she is the way she is.
It did make her a little more sympathetic, but I still wasn't a fan. Or of Rupert either, as he is rather bland and boring. Someone is making mischief with the power they are drawing from the node. And as the story progresses, it's obvious that whoever is behind the problems in the Empire is completely ruthless and will balk at nothing, including child murder.
Meanwhile, Rupert starts to realise that his feelings for Maree are changing. A lot of the story is about Rupert balancing his two heavy responsibilities: finding a suitable person to train, and resolving the problems in the Empire as they escalate. Pacing is uneven with the story dragging in places. After the pivotal scene where Rupert has to return to the Empire to meet a certain individual with key information about possible heirs to the Emperor, things do swing into high action and it proceeds much faster.
There are also clonky wrong notes that bring the reader to a halt with a bump such as when view spoiler [ Rupert picks up Maree who is, to all intents and purposes, dying and says he is 'puzzled to discover that, holding her like this, light, limp and frost cold, was one of the most sexual experiences I have ever had'! Presumably this was to leave the fate of certain characters in question for longer, but it could still have been managed without having to shoehorn this whole section in at the end after everything was otherwise resolved, just so we found out what had happened to the rest of them.
This, added on to a long denouement scene at the convention, made the story reach a rather limp conclusion. I love fantasy. I love stories about parallel universes or the multiverse. I love Diana Wynne Jones. So why, exactly, did I not hear about this book until February of last year? Which is when Goodreads tells me I added it to my stupidly enormous to-read list.
I can only fathom that a Magid was at me, maybe effing around with my fate-lines or something. Oh, what's that? You don't know what I'm talking about? Well, I have a pretty easy way to fix that. It's called reading this book. Deep Secret is I love fantasy. Deep Secret is about Magids, a kind of practical wizard responsible for keeping the multiverse in balance magically the multiverse, of course, being the idea that there an infinite number of universes connecting in a chain on and on and on forever.
Magids hop from world to world doing their thing. Rupert Venables has only been a Magid for two years when his mentor dies and he suddenly finds himself responsible for not only tracking down his potential replacements who are making themselves very hard to find and choosing one of them to train, but also finds himself in the middle of a burgeoning civil war brought on by the assassination of the Emperor of Koryfos, a set of worlds Rupert is assigned to.
So now he's got to track down all the Emperor's children that he previously hid where no one, including himself, could find them, because he was a paranoid git. But that's just the summary. As I usually find with DWJ books, the real joy is in the execution.
Her characters have warts, lots of them sometimes literally. They make mistakes and get angry for no reason, and they frequently find themselves wrapped up in situations they have no control over. They are human in non-human circumstances in this case, most of the book is set at a sff book convention. It is so much fun. Her stuff always has this lovely almost-tangible feel to it that makes you want to move in to her books and stay there. This is probably my favorite of hers since I read Howl's Moving Castle.
It wasn't without its flaws it is a bit dated, notably in the way she keeps referring to a certain character as 'fat' , but I feel like it's the kind of book I'll end up coming back to over and over again until I can no longer find anything wrong with it and all that's left is love. That's how it was with Howl for me, at least. Speaking of, totally excited to re-read that series later this year, and finally read the third book that came out in , and that I've owned since and have never read.
One of my favourite comfort reads, and one that never disappoints. This is so funny and on-point about writers, fan communities, conventions and love and of course magic, multiple universes and all of the problems associated with trying to run a galaxy and I think I get more from it every time. Deep Secret. Edit source History Talk 0. Categories Magids Novels Add category. Cancel Save.
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