Spellwright
The fresh, original first novel of a magical fantasy trilogy, about a dyslexic wizard who cannot spell his spells, yet is destined to contend with an ancient evil that threatens to destroy not only all the magic in the world, but all the people as well.
The fresh, original first novel of a magical fantasy trilogy, about a dyslexic wizard who cannot spell his spells, yet is destined to contend with an ancient evil that threatens to destroy not only all the magic in the world, but all the people as well.
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Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781429945219 (1429945214)
Publish date: March 2nd 2010
Publisher: Tor Books
Pages no: 352
Edition language: English
Series: Spellwright (#1)
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...
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