by Blake Charlton, Marek Pawelec
Nicodemus Weal was once thought to be the prophesied Halycon, a powerful spellwright essential to mankind in the apocalypse known as the Disjunction. But while Nicodemus can read and power magical text, his touch disorders runes and his his prose is inevitably misspelled. Considered crippled, but ...
This has been on my to-read list for a while, and I really liked this book. Although I didn’t find it a I-can’t-put-this-down book, it was really good. There was always so much happening and the plot twists in this book were brilliant. I’ve seen many people getting excited about this magic system, a...
Ok, Blake? Don't read this review. You're not supposed to be reading reviews on your stuff anyhow or something. I read that in a Book For People Who Want To Grow Up To Be Writers so...just don't do it.Alrighty! Here's some backstory (this is going to be a long-ass review so if you're reading for any...
Charlton treats spell crafting/casting/use in a way different than I've come across before. The concept of how dyslexia would interact with magic users is fantastically executed and has some delightful wordplay as a result. I definitely had to go back and reread the beginning after I missed what w...
I wrote a nice pithy review of this... in my head last night, right before I went to sleep. I might have had a dose (or two!) of Dayquil in me, and we all know how a little of the good stuff enhances creativity! Sadly, the entire review stayed in Dreamland, so you're stuck with the usual not-entirel...
My Thoughts:What was great about this book was that Nicodemus was "dyslectic". When he tried to write his magic he misspelled and the spells often become something else. This is called cacography and those who are afflicted are thought as broken and also dangerous since their magic can be out of con...
The best part of this book is the interesting magic system that the writer created. I love fantasy because it is a real escape from the real world...magic, adventure, danger, and all that jazz....so I love it when I run into a book that has such a richly created fantasy world...and doesn't rely on t...
Not a bad debut--I loved the unique magic system, and how well-integrated it was with the world. There were bits that I liked (the gargoyles and the kobolds and the imaginary constructs in the woods), and it was cleanly written (except for the abuse of dialogue tags, ow). However, overall I couldn't...
If you haven't met Nicodemus Weal, you should. He's the kind of character that will touch your heart and change your perspective.A brilliant debut by a talented writer, Spellwright's story is all the more intriguing because it parallels the author's own struggles with dyslexia. The story of Nicodemu...
I heard Blake read from Spellwright at a SFinSF (Science Fiction in San Francisco) event, and laughed out loud. I also read his short story, Endosymbiont, and taught it in my Science Fiction and Philosophy course at the University of San Francisco. Blake came to class on my subsequent invitation, ...
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