Jack, an average, unremarkable teenage boy. The Weir, a complex, bloodstained, magical world ruled by warring wizards that have enchanters, future tellers, sorcerers and warriors under their tyrannical thumbs. When these collide, sparks will fly, and neither will be the same again. As it turns out, Jack is not as unremarkable and average as he previously seemed. He is Weir who was born without a Weirstone, the thing that the Weir channel their powers from. There are different stones for different people, wizards have stones that make them wizards, enchanters have stones that make them enchanters and so on. After he was born, Jack began to die because Weir cannot live without a Weirstone; its like a human heart. A wizard was flown in to implant a wizard stone in him, because that's the stone that he was supposed to be born with. But wizards are tricky, devious people...
Instead of a wizards stone, he was implanted with a warriors stone, because all the warriors have died out. Now this might seem like a good thing that wizard did (she saved a species, hurray!) but it's not. Remember the "warring wizards" I mentioned? Well, they don't actually fight each other. There are two sides, the White Roses and the Red Roses, who have secretly been at each others throats for the past one hundred years. Once a year, they come together to duke it out in a respected tournament that the wizards created as a peacemaker. The only issue is, they force two warriors, one representing each side, to fight to the death. They have no choice in the matter. Every other person involved in the Weir that isn't a wizard, is essentially thought of as wizards property. Like slaves, except that race is no factor.
So Jack becomes a warrior even though he wasn't meant to. Now, he is forced to fight in the tournament being as he is one of the last warriors still living, as hundreds of years of this tournament as practically destroyed the warrior race. He rebels (of course) and so the wizards threaten his family and friends. What will Jack do to save his friends and stop the cruel injustice that the wizards carry out? You'll have to read the book to find out!
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