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Old 02-21-2017, 03:01 AM   #25400
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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.
Still slogging away at this one, although it's speeding up. Full disclosure: It's competing with a couple of app games for my attention, which is somewhat rare for me.

I don't fault the book for this, but when one takes a generically-modern character and tosses her through a portal into a completely new world, then boots her into their equivalent of Hogwarts and makes her deal with remedial and combat magic on top of an unfamiliar society, a whole bunch of worldbuilding has to happen pretty quickly. It's handled fairly well, but there's still a lot of background to chew on in a relatively short space.

As a rough comparison, imagine Harry Potter with the whole Great Destiny thing, but nobody knows his backstory and student-on-student magic is both more common and more dangerous. It's not exactly that, but the water's about that deep.

I expect the second book to go more quickly, now that the setting's been defined and the main character's finding her place in it, and I'm weighing whether or not to buy the third right away. (It's been marked down to $1.99, but it's not obvious whether that's a sale or a permanent reduction.) Either way, once I finish what I've bought, I'll probably hop back over to finish the Big Sigma omnibus. After that... who knows?
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