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TheNinth Since: Nov, 2009
2012-05-01 12:40:28

This is probably not it at all, but I keep coming back to either something from the Tortall Universe or Lloyd Alexander

HeartOfAnAstronaut Since: Jan, 2001
2012-05-01 13:44:57

Um... potentially? I guess it's hard to tell from the pages of those works.

I know that as a child I started to read the first of those books about that Alanna girl but gave it up because the stuff about periods confused me. The book that I'm describing wasn't really a children's book and wasn't concerned with courtly life and stuff relating to nobles and knights, it was more to do with travellers. I don't know if that counts as evidence for or against your suggestions.

Thanks for suggesting stuff though! :)

PennyAnna Since: Jan, 2001
2012-05-01 15:07:01

This is a long shot since I don't remember any of the other elements you mentioned, but the lead character of The Rope Maker by Peter Dickinson has the ability to cancel out magic and it's very important to the plot.

WittyBubble Since: Oct, 2010
2012-05-01 20:54:29

Another long shot, but could it have been one of the books from Terry Goodkind's Sword of Truth series? I think Pillars of Creation is where the characters that were immune to magic came in.

PaulA Since: Jan, 2010
2012-05-01 21:28:32

We have a trope page about people who are immune to/can cancel out magic. Have a look at that and see if anything rings a bell.

HeartOfAnAstronaut Since: Jan, 2001
2012-05-02 01:31:31

I think it is one of those Sword of Truth books! I did check the Anti-Magic page earlier but there were so many examples and they were hard to match up with the book I remembered. The Sword Of Truth character page has a White-Haired Pretty Boy and Dumb Muscle character as well as the Anti-Magic girl and it all seems to fit.

Anyway, thank you all very much for responding!

Edited by HeartOfAnAstronaut
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