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Innate Magic by Shannon Fay

7 reviews

maddox22's review against another edition

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challenging dark tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.0

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luckykosmos's review against another edition

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adventurous tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

Honestly very fun, Paul is a delightful narrator in way over his head. The magic system and how it affects the world, down to Paul and Thomas trying to do magic in the park and the interactions with the onlookers, is charming. There's a gore warning for a few pages toward the end, but otherwise it's quite tame.

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mgwuh's review against another edition

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adventurous lighthearted medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

The world building is excellent; the cast of characters, fully realized. Unfortunately, the protagonist is insufferable. He's a narcissistic, preening, barely competent, myopic, desperate, charming trashheap of a man who pulls everyone around him into a vortex of his idiocy and carelessly pursued crusades. He constantly proclaims his deep love for others all while only loving them exactly as is convenient for him and his image of himself, to their detriment.

Read it if you have the patience for a main character whom you'd throttle to death in real life. In all other cases, avoid it like the plague. It's good work, and I will well upon the author, but it wasn't worth what the stress and rage likely did to my physical health.

Other reviewers note plotholes, and I also chafed against those and a few anachronisms, but honestly by the time they happened I was so annoyed I was rushing through the book to just get it over with, so they captured my attention only long enough to leave an annotation commenting on them. I don't know if they'll shake you more if you're less frustrated than I was by then.

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