The Thinking Woman's Guide to Real Magic
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780143125679 (0143125672)
ASIN: 143125672
Publish date: July 29th 2014
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 576
Edition language: English
~*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 ...
11 years ago
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