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It’s been a hot minute since I’ve read a fantasy with a unique magic system and “The Paper Magician” is certainly … different. Basically, in this version of an early 1900’s England, people can use magic only on man-made items, metal, glass, and, you guessed it, paper, along with I’m sure a bunch of other items but the author doesn’t explore those magics in this book. Oh, but there is blood magic. Which, like every other modern magic book and every single Bioware game in the Dragon Age series, blood magic is always bad. Even when they try and say “Oh, but it’s just another form of magic. It’s not inherently bad!” Cue all the blood magic users cutting their palms and then murdering people. Yeah, that’s still something in this world, too. But, the idea that you can bond to one and one kind of material only with which to use magic, THAT’S new and rather cute and whimsical. I’ve been on a kind of thriller/suspense kick lately. It’s an odd mix, I like to go back and forth between fantasy and this for reasons I can’t explain. So after reading books by Robert Bugoni, I picked up “A Dark Mind” on the Kindle Unlimited. I thought I’d be kicking myself by starting the Lizzy Gardner series with this book (it’s the 3rd) but it was fine. Like any crime drama, each in the series is a nice contained experience. So if you haven’t read any of the other in the series, not a big deal in my opinion and honestly, starting with the first in the exploits of Lizzy Gardner was probably not going to help the story or the writing all that much regardless. |
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