Libriomancer (Magic Ex Libris Book 1)

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I love the world in this book. It's a world any biblophile will recognize and long to inhabit. In this world, you can take things, like say a lightsabre, from books. It's Thursday Next in reverse. Hines has taken what all readers wish and turned it into a good adventure story. As Isaac searches for Gutenberg and the murderer, hoping they aren’t one and the same, he uncovers dark secrets about magic’s history and potential. Secrets which could destroy Die Zwelf Portenære and loose a magical war upon the world. If Isaac is to have any hope of preventing that war, he will have to truly master the magic of libriomancy.

There Are No Therapists: The trope Played With in his particular case when we find out that Gutenburg has been having trouble getting in touch with his lately, so he hasn't been having as many sessions as one might like.

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All Therapists Are Muggles: Nidhi Shah is a normal human, who, however, knows about The Masquerade and has a tattoo that stops mind intrusion. The story was mostly unpredictable. The plot ending could have gone several as I didn't know which until they did.

This book deserved a full 5 stars (a rarity for me) because it stayed with me long after finishing. On further thought, it also hit me on a number of different levels and it'll appeal to any of the following fans: Unbuilt Trope: While the whole pulling-magic-out-of-books thing seems amazing, the series at large analyzes just about every single horrifying consequence of the idea, the most obvious being that there are a lot of things in books that are small enough for a libriomancer to pull out that would be very dangerous if let loose in the real world. This was a book I had high hopes for, ever since finding out what it was about. At some point in our childhoods, I'm sure all of us bibliophiles have wished that the worlds in our favorite books were real, and wondered what it would be like to interact with with its characters and objects.

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The members of the "Libromancer" archetype belong to various Types and Attributes, representing different types or genres of books. Do you love books as objects as well as content? Are you a fan of printing, fonts, typography, and graphic design? There's stuff to really enjoy in this book for book geeks. Primero que todo, creo que nunca había leído una novela en que su autor deje tan patente su amor por los libros y su pasión por la literatura de fantasía y ciencia ficción en particular. Siendo que también son dos de mis géneros favoritos, lo he pasado realmente genial con esta lectura. Overall however, I was underwhelmed. I blame Jim Butcher. For me, everything seems to pale compared to the Dresden Files. La novela es de una originalidad increíble, no sólo por la creación de esta magia que, además, está explicada de una forma muy inteligente, sino por el conflicto principal de esta entrega, que tiene un argumento muy bien pensado y que cuadra con todas las leyes de este worldbuilding.

Isaac had a lot in common with me (fear of bridges over water, couldn't even highlight his textbooks because it was marring them, sf geek in addition to the fantasy) which made me relate to him better. Redemption Equals Death: The same chapter Gutenberg finally admits that he did Isaac and a lot of other people wrong is the chapter he's unceremoniously killed by the Big Bad.What Measure Is a Non-Human?: One reason why Isaac is so against the proposed RAMPART act was that one of the clauses explicitly stated that non-human magicals were not legally considered people under the law. The proposed legal status of human magicals isn't much better. That said, to say that the book is fun and light does not mean that it is frivolous. Quite the contrary, actually. From the creation of Libriomancy to how one can use that power and who gets to decide what is dangerous or not; from the way people interact with stories to how stories are created and how those creations affect the world or vice versa, the book has its really serious side as well. Real-Person Fic: In-universe, Gutenberg, under the pen name of Darcy Nacht, wrote fan fiction about Shakespeare and Elton John. Out-of-Universe, this book has a romance between Ponce de Leon and Gutenberg.