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The Master's Apprentice
by Oliver Pötzsch
The Master's Apprentice by Oliver Potzsch is a free NetGalley ebook that I read in early March.
A fictionalized biography of the folk hero, Johann Faustus and his upbringing in the rural hills of Germany. He's a curious, learned boy with a seemingly predestined fate to become a sleight of hand artist, then learns acts of illusion, palmistry, and horoscopes while traveling on the road with the master of the book’s title (kind of piteously at first, like a young Luke Skywalker), before joining a carnival troupe, furthering his skills more and more on the road alone and in scholarly halls. From there, he descends into notoriety, witnesses the advancement of mold-based medicines, crossbows, spectacles, and the printed page, undergoes discrimination toward travelers and magicians where you're beat down if a trick isn’t performed to their liking, then goes into an ominous Palpatine-esque ending.
A fictionalized biography of the folk hero, Johann Faustus and his upbringing in the rural hills of Germany. He's a curious, learned boy with a seemingly predestined fate to become a sleight of hand artist, then learns acts of illusion, palmistry, and horoscopes while traveling on the road with the master of the book’s title (kind of piteously at first, like a young Luke Skywalker), before joining a carnival troupe, furthering his skills more and more on the road alone and in scholarly halls. From there, he descends into notoriety, witnesses the advancement of mold-based medicines, crossbows, spectacles, and the printed page, undergoes discrimination toward travelers and magicians where you're beat down if a trick isn’t performed to their liking, then goes into an ominous Palpatine-esque ending.