the paper magician by charlie n holmberg

Her heart had broken at those words, and now, standing before the gate of Magician Emery Thane’s lair, she wished it had stopped beating altogether. Each magician, once graduated, is assigned a speciality.Ĭeony has been given paper, or as they call it, folding. In this alternate reality of England, there exists magic. “I’ve been shot to hell,” Ceony murmured.A most inauspicious beginning to young magician Ceony's apprenticeship. The tiles composing the path up to the front door, which hung only by its top hinge, were cracked into pieces and overturned, and Ceony didn’t trust a single one of the porch’s gray, weathered boards to hold her weight long enough for her to ring the bell. Dead leaves from a dozen past winters clogged the eaves and wedged themselves under bent and warped shingles-also black-and something drip-drip-dripped nearby, smelling like vinegar and sweat. The Summary: Every window in the mansion-and Ceony counted only seven-hid behind black shutters all chained and locked, without the slightest glimmer of candlelight behind them. Not to mention I seriously want to take up origami now. The good: light on the romance, the heroine is genuinely likeable, no Mary Sues here, the main character gave me heavy Snape feels (without the greasy hair), and the romance.oh, so very light. It was just a shame that this turned out to be such a boring book for the latter 2/3s. Then it became nigh unbearable, because constant flashbacks are not for me, no, sir.

At the beginning, I was getting solid heavy magical Daddy Long Legs feels.which descended solidly into Dickensian feels, more specifically, A Christmas Carol. And even if there’s no door to freedom, at least you know you tried. Holmberg, The Paper Magician is an extraordinary adventure both dark and whimsical that will delight readers of all ages. To save her teacher’s life, Ceony must face the evil magician and embark on an unbelievable adventure that will take her into the chambers of Thane’s still-beating heart-and reveal the very soul of the man.įrom the imaginative mind of debut author Charlie N. But as she discovers these wonders, Ceony also learns of the extraordinary dangers of forbidden magic.Īn Excisioner-a practitioner of dark, flesh magic-invades the cottage and rips Thane’s heart from his chest. Yet the spells Ceony learns under the strange yet kind Thane turn out to be more marvelous than she could have ever imagined-animating paper creatures, bringing stories to life via ghostly images, even reading fortunes. And once she’s bonded to paper, that will be her only magic…forever.

Having graduated at the top of her class from the Tagis Praff School for the Magically Inclined, Ceony is assigned an apprenticeship in paper magic despite her dreams of bespelling metal. Ceony Twill arrives at the cottage of Magician Emery Thane with a broken heart.

The paper magician by charlie n holmberg