Wherein we meet Ceony, a young Apprentice Magician who is forced into paper magic out of necessity. There are too few Paper Magicians, or Folders, in the country, and from time to time a student has the medium forced upon them to keep it from dying out. Emery Thane is introduced as Ceony's teacher...
Magic origami. That would be cool talent to learn. If you lived somewhere dry or only did magic outside in the middle of summer. I wonder how he kept his paper garden from constantly dissolving.
A bold plot structure and startlingly original magic lifts this, sometimes graphically violent, YA Edwardian adventure into something special SPOILER ALERT I don't normally reveal plot elements but I can't review this book without sharing some of the early events. "The Paper Magician" takes pl...
Rental book As my second Kindle (monthly Prime rental) book, I thought I’d go for a “top” book in my genre. An Amazon imprint publishes it, so I wasn’t sure what to expect. It’s not a long book, but it felt much longer than it should’ve. It’s set back a hundred or two hundred years ago in London whe...
This novel was an entertaining way of spending a day locked indoors (it was so hot earlier this afternoon you couldn't breathe outside). Ceony Twill, despite graduating top of her class at her magicians' academy, isn't allowed to pick her discipline of magic. She longs to work magic with metal, b...
I'd heard some bad things about these books through the bookish grapevine and decided to pass, but then Audible was having a sale and I needed distraction. Things happened. Story: Through the first half of the book it was hanging onto four stars with its sheer cuteness. The heroine is snarky and...
The Paper Magician had every appearance of something I would love. What a lovely cover. What a wonderful idea for a system of magic.Ah well. What a shame.It is, I think, a terrific system of magic – but there is so little information about other branches that it's hard to know. Paper magic is fascin...
I had somehow taken this book off of my to-read list; don’t even know how it happened, but it wandered over onto my ‘not now’ list and languished there. VERY unique world building, definitely liked it, BUT. There was one part of the book that was just needlessly, endlessly long -- I understand the r...
VERY much enjoyed this book. While I think it can be described as Young Adult, it's not very "young adult-y". The heroine is 19, and treated, by and large, as an adult.Very much enjoyed the world building, but if you're looking for historical detail, this probably ain't the book for you. The world f...
Read by Tiffany and Kim A: This book is a gentle read, introducing a lovely complex-but-simple fantasy world, with magic both light and dark. Well written, lovely characters (though the Quest dragged a bit towards the end). Definitely looking forward to book 2!
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