Fantasy

The Glass Magician (The Paper Magician Trilogy #2) By: Charlie N. Holmberg

Glass Magician

The Glass Magician (The Paper Magician Trilogy #2) By: Charlie N. Holmberg

Plot:

Three months after returning Magician Emery Thane’s heart to his body, Ceony Twill is well on her way to becoming a Folder. Unfortunately, not all of Ceony’s thoughts have been focused on paper magic. Though she was promised romance by a fortuity box, Ceony still hasn’t broken the teacher-student barrier with Emery, despite their growing closeness.

When a magician with a penchant for revenge believes that Ceony possesses a secret, he vows to discover it…even if it tears apart the very fabric of their magical world. After a series of attacks target Ceony and catch those she holds most dear in the crossfire, Ceony knows she must find the true limits of her powers…and keep her knowledge from falling into wayward hands.

The delightful sequel to Charlie N. Holmberg’s The Paper Magician, The Glass Magician will charm readers young and old alike.

Review:

Once again I love this cover, I wonder if that has anything to do with my enjoyment of it? Does it put me in the right mind frame to read? I don’t know, I might think about that one day.

Lovely world, Ceony still kind of confuses me. She has a photographic memory, basically, and is supposed to be very smart, but as soon as Emery is threatened she throws caution to the wind. She even puts others in danger because of that and doesn’t realize it until it’s too late. It’s kind of annoying, but it’s annoying character wise. I think it’s still within the bounds of her character.

Not much movement on the romance plot which caused me to buy the next book way too late and had to force myself to stop reading. Kind of sad that it’s the last book in the series and hope I get a lot of closure.

4/5

The Paper Magician (The Paper Magician Trilogy #1) By: Charlie N. Holmberg

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The Paper Magician (The Paper Magician Trilogy #1) By: Charlie N. Holmberg

Plot:

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.

Review:

I love this cover a lot, I’m apparently drawn to simple covers.

Really enjoyed the world that was created here. The way magic worked was interesting. Magicians were tied to one type and once bonded that was it. You could only work magic with manmade materials, so paper, plastic, smelting metals, stuff like that. The thing is man is man made so this creates an Excisioner, which is bad. I don’t understand why they couldn’t have used their magic for good like healing, but they all appear to be evil.

Ceony and Thane were compelling and I was so not expecting what happened in the last act. There was a lot of character and world building in this book, but it never got boring it was too interesting.

I did think Ceony bonded very quickly with Thane, especially after her attitude about the whole being bonded to paper thing. She also seemed to be a planner but didn’t do hardly any of that in her rescue attempt. I guess heat of the moment thing, but still seemed slightly out of character.

I’m really excited that the rest of the series is already written and I get to visit the world immediately.

4/5