by Emily Croy Barker
~*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 ...
This book is a well thought out fantasy, that explores the implications of an alternate world, accessible with great difficulty or occasional luck from this world. The start of the book is a familiar look at a graduate student in literature whose life experiences are not going well. After a partic...
So, this started out kind of confusing and slow. The entire time she was with Faitoren was extremely confusing. I understand that the author was writing from Nora's POV and Nora was confused but I still felt that it was missing some details. The fact that I didn't even know Nora's hair color until a...
To say this book is like Lev Grossman's The Magicians is like saying eating foie gras is like eating a rectum. Sure, they're both parts of the same animal's internal organs, but in one situation you're eating lovely, unctuous, rich goodness, and in the other you're just eating mostly digested crap.C...
This book completely messed up my weekend plans. We periodically receive boxes of ARC's for collection development purposes, and I managed to snag this out of our most recent box. That following weekend I was supposed to finish assigned readings in a timely manner and then write the assigned essay...
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