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Old 02-15-2017, 07:30 PM   #25375
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I'm working on Christopher Nuttall's Schooled in Magic, first of eleven in the series (to date), but I'm having a little trouble getting into it. A little of that is editing, and at least some is general distraction on my part.

It's basically a cross between a YA portal fantasy (e.g. Narnia, Wonderland) and Harry Potter: an evil wizard casts a spell to summon a "Child of Destiny" and ends up with Emily, a teenage girl from our modern world... whose mother's name is Destiny. Emily has some magical aptitude, so her savior packs her off to the local Hogwarts analogue for testing and training. (Sending her back home is apparently not an option.)

As mentioned, I've found some editing issues in the first few chapters, but they're relatively minor so far. Little things like "chaff" instead of "chafe," random switching between " - " and "–" for parenthetical elements, and so forth. It's the kind of thing I like to see fixed, but it's better than a lot of the indie competition. If I end up liking the first two books, I'll probably pick up the others as they go on sale; they seem to do so often enough.
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