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A review by themanfromdelmonte
The Master Magician by Charlie N. Holmberg
2.0
Oh my, where to start? This tale is rushed. There’s a definite sense of loose ends being tied. Ceony gets her man, defeats the bad guys, graduates as a practitioner, saves her sister from being a fallen woman etc etc.
Then the heroine becomes a super-magician, able to switch talents at will! And none else in the wide world of magic use has ever figured out this pretty elementary procedure? My willing suspension of disbelief failed at this point.
I know this is not written by a native and she takes the trouble to know the relative whereabouts of Oxford, Reading and Aylesbury but then the author refers to a ‘gopher’ hole. No gophers in this country, rabbits perhaps. In another braces are called ‘suspenders’. Given the trouble the author has taken to adhere to Jane Austen-lite, that really jars.
Then the heroine becomes a super-magician, able to switch talents at will! And none else in the wide world of magic use has ever figured out this pretty elementary procedure? My willing suspension of disbelief failed at this point.
I know this is not written by a native and she takes the trouble to know the relative whereabouts of Oxford, Reading and Aylesbury but then the author refers to a ‘gopher’ hole. No gophers in this country, rabbits perhaps. In another braces are called ‘suspenders’. Given the trouble the author has taken to adhere to Jane Austen-lite, that really jars.