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The Paper Magician (The Paper Magician, #1)
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bookshelves: fantasy, netgalley-edelweiss, paranormal, r2r-complete, read-2015, read-with-abbie, romance, young-adult, as
Oct 15, 2014
bookshelves: fantasy, netgalley-edelweiss, paranormal, r2r-complete, read-2015, read-with-abbie, romance, young-adult, as
(Source: I received a digital copy of this book for free on a read-to-review basis. Thanks to Amazon Publishing and NetGalley.)
“Material made by man, your creator summons you. Link to me as I link to you through my years until the day I die and become earth.”
This book started out quite promising, but unfortunately took a big turn for the worse.
I found Ceony quite a rude person, and she was also really, really nosey! She was rude to her new employer, rude about his house, and whenever given the chance would happily nose around his office and his bedroom, rifling through his things, and generally spying on him!
“The front you put on your home is horrid.”
“The tiniest smile teased her lips as she sat down in Mg. Thane’s desk chair and began opening his drawers, none of which had been locked.”
The storyline in this started out okay, I liked the way the magicians made so many things from paper, and did things with it that you maybe wouldn’t think of, like making an origami dog.
“Ceony gaped in surprise. There, wagging its little paper tail, stood a paper dog.”
But at around the half-way mark, things just went downhill rapidly. Whilst I accepted that magic could be used to steal someone’s heart, I really hated the part of the book where Ceony got sucked into said heart, and had to battle her way through it! (view spoiler)
I also noticed a bit of a ‘Wizard of Oz’ resemblance in this book. A girl sucked into a strange land through no fault of her own, complete with her little dog, and looking for someone called ‘Em’? Sounds like Dorothy to me.
The ending of this was a relief, and I was so glad that the book ended at 96%! The last 20% of the book was just painful to get through. My eyes now need a rest from all the rolling they did.
4 out of 10
“Material made by man, your creator summons you. Link to me as I link to you through my years until the day I die and become earth.”
This book started out quite promising, but unfortunately took a big turn for the worse.
I found Ceony quite a rude person, and she was also really, really nosey! She was rude to her new employer, rude about his house, and whenever given the chance would happily nose around his office and his bedroom, rifling through his things, and generally spying on him!
“The front you put on your home is horrid.”
“The tiniest smile teased her lips as she sat down in Mg. Thane’s desk chair and began opening his drawers, none of which had been locked.”
The storyline in this started out okay, I liked the way the magicians made so many things from paper, and did things with it that you maybe wouldn’t think of, like making an origami dog.
“Ceony gaped in surprise. There, wagging its little paper tail, stood a paper dog.”
But at around the half-way mark, things just went downhill rapidly. Whilst I accepted that magic could be used to steal someone’s heart, I really hated the part of the book where Ceony got sucked into said heart, and had to battle her way through it! (view spoiler)
I also noticed a bit of a ‘Wizard of Oz’ resemblance in this book. A girl sucked into a strange land through no fault of her own, complete with her little dog, and looking for someone called ‘Em’? Sounds like Dorothy to me.
The ending of this was a relief, and I was so glad that the book ended at 96%! The last 20% of the book was just painful to get through. My eyes now need a rest from all the rolling they did.
4 out of 10
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Apr 29, 2016 09:45AM
I'm listening to this as an audiobook and I feel the same way. Why exactly did she fall in love with him? He's barely even in the book in present day.
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I just finished this book and could have wrote pretty much the exact same things haha. Think I spent about 50% of this book wanting to scratch my eyes out
