The Thinking Woman's Guide to Real Magic
An imaginative story of a woman caught in an alternate world—where she will need to learn the skills of magic to survive Nora Fischer’s dissertation is stalled and her boyfriend is about to marry another woman. During a miserable weekend at a friend’s wedding, Nora wanders off and walks...
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An imaginative story of a woman caught in an alternate world—where she will need to learn the skills of magic to survive Nora Fischer’s dissertation is stalled and her boyfriend is about to marry another woman. During a miserable weekend at a friend’s wedding, Nora wanders off and walks through a portal into a different world where she’s transformed from a drab grad student into a stunning beauty. Before long, she has a set of glamorous new friends and her romance with gorgeous, masterful Raclin is heating up. It’s almost too good to be true. Then the elegant veneer shatters. Nora’s new fantasy world turns darker, a fairy tale gone incredibly wrong. Making it here will take skills Nora never learned in graduate school. Her only real ally—and a reluctant one at that—is the magician Aruendiel, a grim, reclusive figure with a biting tongue and a shrouded past. And it will take her becoming Aruendiel’s student—and learning magic herself—to survive. When a passage home finally opens, Nora must weigh her “real life” against the dangerous power of love and magic. For lovers of Lev Grossman's The Magicians series (The Magicians and The Magician King) and Deborah Harkness's All Souls Trilogy (A Discovery of Witches and Shadow of Night).
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Format: kindle
ISBN:
9781101585573
ASIN: B0074VTHMK
Publish date: August 1st 2013
Publisher: Pamela Dorman Books
Pages no: 576
~*Full review found on The Bent Bookworm!*~I was instantly doubtful of this book, but it came recommended by a good friend so I gave it a shot. I am happy to report that the actual reading improved the impression I had drawn based on the cover (gag) and title (odd). Overall I’m giving it 3.5 stars…I...
This is one of those books in which I could get totally swept away into a different world (just like the protagonist, Nora), and I enjoyed being there so much that it was easy for me to overlook the book's shortcomings. The world-building in the book is decent, especially the magic system and its ...
The cover and the title reminded me very much of A Discovery of Witches for some reason. That's basically the only reason I picked this book up.So far, I'm feeling ambivalent.ETA: I think I would have been okay if the middle 300ish pages had accidentally fallen out of my copy. But they didn't, so ...
http://witandsin.blogspot.com/2013/11/review-thinking-womans-guide-to-real.html The Thinking Woman’s Guide to Real Magic is a difficult book for me to review. I was drawn to the title and premise, but ultimately found the first to be misleading and the second to be far more exciting in blurb forma...
The Thinking Woman's Guide to Real Magic - Emily Croy Barker I get the feeling that Barker desperately wants The Thinking Woman's Guide to Real Magic to be the next A Discovery of Witches. I enjoyed the latter and its sequel, but this one was only so-so for me and I can't quite put my finger on ...