Storm Glass by Maria V. Snyder
Opal comes from a family of glassmakers and has a remarkable talent for making glass animals herself. She is sent to magician’s school when it is found that she infuses magic within her glass creatures. Taunted by her schoolmate Pazia as a one trick wonder, she hopes other magical abilities come to her, but when she seems to be developing the frightening ability to steal other magicians' magic, for which she may be viewed as a threat, she regrets those yearnings. In between classes and setting up a glassmaking shop at the school, she becomes involved in intrigues and relationships with both Ulrick, a student with a similar glassblowing ability who she recruits to the school, and Kade, a Stormdancer, whose clan of magicians harness the power of storms in glass, and whose clan’s glass orbs appear to have been sabotaged, having recently killed several Stormdancers, including his sister.
Storm Glass is the first book in the Glass series and will be followed by Sea Glass this fall. This series takes place in the same setting as Snyder’s Study series (Poison Study, Magic Study and Fire Study, also recommended) and some Study characters make appearances in Storm Glass.
Opal comes from a family of glassmakers and has a remarkable talent for making glass animals herself. She is sent to magician’s school when it is found that she infuses magic within her glass creatures. Taunted by her schoolmate Pazia as a one trick wonder, she hopes other magical abilities come to her, but when she seems to be developing the frightening ability to steal other magicians' magic, for which she may be viewed as a threat, she regrets those yearnings. In between classes and setting up a glassmaking shop at the school, she becomes involved in intrigues and relationships with both Ulrick, a student with a similar glassblowing ability who she recruits to the school, and Kade, a Stormdancer, whose clan of magicians harness the power of storms in glass, and whose clan’s glass orbs appear to have been sabotaged, having recently killed several Stormdancers, including his sister.
Storm Glass is the first book in the Glass series and will be followed by Sea Glass this fall. This series takes place in the same setting as Snyder’s Study series (Poison Study, Magic Study and Fire Study, also recommended) and some Study characters make appearances in Storm Glass.
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