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The Rite of Wands Kindle Edition

by Mackenzie Flohr (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
3.9 3.9 out of 5 stars 55 ratings
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One boy…one Rite… And a world of deadly secrets that could change the course of history—forever

And so begins the tale of Mierta McKinnon. When a horrible fate reveals itself during his Rite of Wands ceremony, he must find a way to change not only his destiny but also the land of Iverna’s.

Forbidden from revealing the future he foresees to anyone, he is granted a wand and his magical powers, but still must master the realm of magic in order to save himself and those he loves.

But Mierta is not the only one with secrets…especially when it’s impossible to know who to trust.
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"...a worthwhile book for any teenage fans of magic and doomsday prophecies." ―InD'Tale Magazine

"As Flohr has indicated, fans of Doctor Who and Harry Potter will definitely enjoy this book, but it's not dependent upon enjoying those; the storytelling in The Rite of Wands stands easily on its own merit, and I wholeheartedly recommend you check it out!" ―Twintype Books, LLC

"Mackenzie Flohr has created a magical world that fascinates and excites the reader with brilliant descriptions of spells, action and suspense...a great beginning to what promises to be an interesting and thrilling series where the magical and ordinary combine in a medieval setting complete with kings, queens and knights, along with the struggling peasants who are at the mercy of those around them." ―Readers' Favorite

"A powerful perspective with alternating points of view, this book is richly layered with mystery, intrigue, murder and deceit. It's impossible to know who to trust in this fast-paced YA fantasy adventure. Author Mackenzie Flohr's fanciful world of magic and monarchs offers a magnificent tale that brilliantly unfolds in this lovely coming of age adventure." ―Children's Literary Classics

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Mackenzie is the author of the popular young adult fantasy series The Rite of Wands. A storyteller at heart, she loves to inspire the imagination. Mackenzie makes her home in Michigan, where she is currently penning her next adventure.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07CR8JDCF
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ BHC Press (April 28, 2018)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ April 28, 2018
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 1098 KB
  • Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
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  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 209 pages
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2020 Royal Dragonfly Book Awards: Honorary Mention

2019 Author Elite Awards: Top 10 Finalist - Fantasy

2018 Literary Classics Awards Gold Medal Winner: Best Young Adult Fantasy Novel

2018 Imadjinn Award for Best Fantasy Novel

2018 International Book Awards Finalist in the Fiction: Fantasy

2017 Foreword INDIES Book of Year Awards Silver Medal Winner: Fantasy

Mackenzie is the award-winning author of the young adult fantasy series The Rite of Wands. A storyteller at heart, she loves to inspire the imagination. Mackenzie makes her home in America, where she is currently penning her next adventure.

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Jeannie Richards
5.0 out of 5 stars A Middle Age Fantasy Fix For The Mind!
Reviewed in the United States on September 11, 2017
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Kings, queens, warlocks, seers, evil villains, and dragons populate this exciting Middle Age Sci-fi fantasy adventure (Yes, it’s all that and more!) by Author MacKenzie Flohr. With a colorful display of characters, glorious visions of castles and manor estates, and a story line that could charm the socks off a fox, readers are temptingly pulled into a complex world filled with magic, adventure, and thrills. At first, “Rite of Wands’ seems like simple fare, focusing on the lives of two preteens longing to be more than who they are, and to make a name for themselves in the eyes of their fathers and the kingdom. But as Flohr’s seemingly charming and enrapturing story progresses, the reader is quickly taken off-guard when the author reveals that a subversive assassination plots is already in motion, long-kept secrets are being brought to light, and a terrible darkness is descending upon the land—one that only a 12-year-old boy named Mierta can stop.

Flohr’s protagonists, Mierta and Orlynd, are instantly endearing but intricately complex as they seek their separate destinies and try to discover the truth behind their family secrets. When we first meet Mierta, he is an innocent and rambunctious, trouble-seeking 12-year-old who nearly loses his life trying to become a warlock in order to fulfill a prophecy and prevent a deadly plague that will destroy the world. As he matures into a young adulthood, he is consumed by his one obsession—to find the cure and save not only those unfortunates who have contracted the disease but his father and himself. While Mierta’s obsesses to find this cure, we find his preteen innocence and optimism being ripped away, and as Florh delves into the maturing warlock’s seemingly twisted thinking, she leaves the reader wondering at the duality of his character. The question of whether Mierta is good vs. evil easily drives the reader’s curiosity to find out which side he is playing in this dangerous game of cat and mouse.

Flohr’s other main protagonist, Orlynd, is a somewhat mature but inexperienced 14-year-old who, when he first arrives at King Francis’ court, is merely trying to find his place in the world—a world that has suddenly come crashing down upon him when his father suddenly abandons him to his demanding king. The young wizard’s coming of age is quick and hard as he desperately tries to fulfill his new role as the king’s seer, but finds himself up against a formidable group of spies and conspirators bent on assassinating the ruler and taking over his kingdom.

Flohr’s “The Rite of Wands” is a Middle Age fantasy fix for the mind, and readers will find no issue immersing themselves in this amazing tale which seems destined to become a classic. With enemies lurking all around, the plot thickening, assassins and traitors invading the court, and several more attempts to seize power and rule the kingdom, “The Rite of Wands” is a reader’s dream novel that will definitely leave one wanting more—much, much more.

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Kathy Hoover
4.0 out of 5 stars Promising beginning to a series saga! 4 and a half stars!
Reviewed in the United States on July 2, 2019
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I discovered the author and her book on Twitter and decided to purchase the Kindle version and give it a read as I grew up on fantasy/Arthurian stories from the likes of Andre Norton and Mary Stewart, and always enjoyed fantastical stories!
This YA novel begins with the Rite of Wands ceremony which introduced one of the main characters, Mierta, age 12 or so. There's a dragon ruler overseeing the rite, but he remains a mystery to the end.
Mierta is a clumsy, over-confident youth at the beginning, and it's endearing, but his visions in the rite seem to steer him into obsession and cause him to take risks he might never have attempted, which leads him to an injury that scars him and sets into motion his darker future.
The other featured character, from the land of Lorrina, Orlynd is also a wizard and has inherited skill at prophecy from his late mother. He and Mierta only have a passing knowledge of the other and never seem to quite interact, but the parallel between them serves to point out the divergent path the two young wizards take. Orlynd stands out with his thick accent, which would have been fine but no one else has a dialect, so it seemed (to me) off-putting. I found myself skimming his words, impatient to get to the next scene. The introduction of the arrogant Prince turned King, Deor, (spoilers!) and his ambitious Queen (the only female main character) was predictable. Then Deor got a personality transplant upon Orlynd's saving him in a certain situation, which was abrupt and total, and seemed unlikely. Other than those issues I enjoyed the first part very much. The abrupt fast-forward 24 years in Part 2 left me jarred, especially since Mierta's obsession seemed to have corrupted him in the interim, he's impatient, dismissive, and abusive to his younger brother Lochlann. He has no problem experimenting on animals and is offered a chance to test his cures on prisoners. He's become dangerous, but we don't know what happened in those 24 years to alter him in such a dramatic way. He even tortures a long time servant! Queen Anya plays the cruel despot to her weak king Deor and she plots against him predictably, trying to get Mierta to aid her plot. The only other female characters are servants, and of course the missing mothers of the two wizards. Perhaps it's meant to show what both young men were missing in their lives, and how it altered them in different ways. The second part ends in a cliff-hanger that did excite me for what is to come in this series! All in all, I enjoyed it, and hope the author will fill in some of those missing years in flashbacks in the next installment maybe?
An aside to whoever edited/proofread this novel. You missed some homophones and other typos! Homophones are words that sound alike and have different meanings and spellings. Eg. Reign vs Rein, and Bare vs Bear. A King reigns, horses have reins to steer them. A woman bears a load physically or mentally, bare means she's without clothes. Don't picture that! Hopefully, they will do a better job next time. Rated a little better than 4!
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MapleLeafAussie
5.0 out of 5 stars Delightful magical fantasy.
Reviewed in the United States on September 7, 2017
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Mackenzie Flohr has created a beautiful world of magical kingdoms in which ambition and conspiracy work to undermine the rightful order and overthrow the rule of the rightful king.

The story is populated by beautifully complex characters, among whom Mierta McKinnon and Orlynd O'Brien take the lead roles. Very few of the characters are transparent at all, so the story keeps on developing interest and intrigue as it progresses. The very fact that Mierta is so complicated and driven a character draws the reader into his thoughts and aspirations, and engages one deeply in the events of the story as they unfold.

It would be too simplistic to say that this is a story of a battle between good and evil. It may be so, but there are nuances and shades of truth and revelation, and of injustice and vindication, that obscure some elements of the characters and of the story so that the reader is never really able to foresee or predict what is yet to come. In this story, the only thing that is sure is that anything could happen.

The story finished at a logical point of resolution, although I really didn't want it to. A number of questions, both incidental and central to the story, remain to be answered in future books. I'm very keen for the next book!

All in all, this is shaping up to be the series I have been waiting for since I finished reading Harry Potter the seventh time over. It's not more of the same - the world, the characters and the problems they face are very different, but The Rite Of Wands does capture the imagination in the same fantastic, magical way.
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TheGazulator
5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic start to a promising series!
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 19, 2020
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The action follows two main protagonists - Mierta and Orlynd, both warlocks in different kingdoms. Mackenzie has a great way of setting the scene in your mind as you're reading. There's a fantastic blend of influences in there, all superbly woven together and conveyed in Mackenzie Flohr's distinct voice. I love the attention to detail - the way that Orlynd's dialect is written adds a richness to that character. Matt Smith (Doctor Who) is cited by Mackenzie as the influence for Mierta, and that really comes through, especially in Part Two where the action moves forward and Mierta is older (although it's fun trying to imagine a 12-year old Matt in Part One!) I also like the relationship between Deor and Orlynd - there's a dash of Merlin and Arthur (BBC Merlin) to it. There are some great twists in there, and - without giving too much away - one of the characters shows a darker streak that surprises you. I suspect we'll see more of that as the story progresses in the next book.
Great stuff - highly recommended!
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Joey
5.0 out of 5 stars and was so glad when it came across my path
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 21, 2017
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I had been wanting to read this book since I first heard about it, and was so glad when it came across my path. The story starts with the rite of wands, a ceremony that Mierta, and every witch or warlock, has to go through to be given their wand and allowed to practice magic. During the ceremony, there is a scene of what could be Mierta's destiny, and he is desperate to change it. The story is engaging from the first page and beautifully told. An amazing debut novel. I loved the book and the description that went into the scenery. I also loved Orlynd and the way his story unfolded. Overall an excellent start to what looks to be an engaging and exciting series. Highly recommended!
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The Saint
5.0 out of 5 stars I loved the author's approach and the Celtic thread
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 23, 2017
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Bought this through the Heggerwood Showcase, more so to help with my own aspirations to write YA with elements of fantasy. I loved the author's approach and the Celtic thread. It kept me reading and reading until I needed to read on to the next instalment. Very well written, the Machiavellians hidden amongst the characters; who is good, who is bad? I pleasure to read and at times a challenge... all very good.
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katy coppens
5.0 out of 5 stars No regrets.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 28, 2019
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Pleasant read leaving you wanting more when done, recommended for fans of fantasy and science fiction.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 7, 2019
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Great book, looking forward to the next one!
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