Title: The Paper Magician
Author: Charlie N. Holmberg
Published: 1 Sep 2014
Series: The Paper Magician #1
Rating: 2 stars
Synopsis:
Ceony Twill arrives at the cottage of Magician Emery Thane with a broken heart. Having graduated at the top of her class from the Tagis Praff School for the Magically Inclined, Ceony is assigned an apprenticeship in paper magic despite her dreams of bespelling metal. And once she’s bonded to paper, that will be her only magic… forever.
Yet the spells Ceony learns under the strange yet kind Thane turn out to be more marvelous than she could have ever imagined — animating paper creatures, bringing stories to life via ghostly images, even reading fortunes. But as she discovers these wonders, Ceony also learns of the extraordinary dangers of forbidden magic.
An Excisioner — a practitioner of dark, flesh magic — invades the cottage and rips Thane’s heart from his chest. To save her teacher’s life, Ceony must face the evil magician and embark on an unbelievable adventure that will take her into the chambers of Thane’s still-beating heart—and reveal the very soul of the man.
Yet the spells Ceony learns under the strange yet kind Thane turn out to be more marvelous than she could have ever imagined — animating paper creatures, bringing stories to life via ghostly images, even reading fortunes. But as she discovers these wonders, Ceony also learns of the extraordinary dangers of forbidden magic.
An Excisioner — a practitioner of dark, flesh magic — invades the cottage and rips Thane’s heart from his chest. To save her teacher’s life, Ceony must face the evil magician and embark on an unbelievable adventure that will take her into the chambers of Thane’s still-beating heart—and reveal the very soul of the man.
The heart had the dark to balance out the light, the uncertainty to balance dreams.
The cover was what drew me in originally as it's a lovely cover. I liked the idea of the story and the beginning was quite good.Then I feel like it went downhill a little for me. Half the story was Ceony wandering around inside his heart and it felt like just a long backstory for Mg. Thane.
Ceony has recently graduated, and Mg. Thane feels like he should be in his 30s. So the bit of romance starting around halfway through wasn't for me. Plus after only being with him for about a week and thinking him really rude at the start, she shouldn't really say that she loves him, in my opinion.
The paper folding was nice and it was nice to see how a simple thing like paper could be turned into a skeleton butler or a paper dog or even to add magic to the front of the house to mask it. The magic was probably my favourite part about this book. It would have been nice to see what each of the different types were like a little more in depth though.
Also, the laundry and the cooking. I can understand cooking for Mg. Thane as it's a nice thing to do and it's easier cooking for two than for one, I think. However, I wouldn't be washing my boss/teacher's dirty laundry whether they asked me to or not.
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All books in this series:
1 | The Paper Magician
2 | The Glass Magician
3 | The Master Magician
4 | The Plastic Magician
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