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Twilight Times Books
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Fantasy. Fiction. HTML: Emily is a teenage girl pulled from our world into a world of magic and mystery by a necromancer who intends to sacrifice her to the dark gods. Rescued in the nick of time by an enigmatic sorcerer, she discovers that she possesses magical powers and must go to Whitehall School to learn how to master them. There, she learns the locals believe that she is a "Child of Destiny," someone whose choices might save or damn their world ... a title that earns her both friends and enemies. A stranger in a very strange land, she may never fit into her new world. ...and the necromancer is still hunting her. If Emily can't stop him, he might bring about the end of days..
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LibraryThing member Mary_Beth_Robb
couldn't finish, I was too bored.
LibraryThing member Tip44
Good ideas, but the writing would benefit from increased editing. Obviously an early book.
LibraryThing member reading_fox
Derivative, but almost self consciously so. References to Harry Potter abound, and a few Star wars ones too. A slightly moralistic tone pervades the heroines thoughts too, it comes acorss as preachy, the author wanting to make a point, which could have been achieved more subtly.
Emily is just an
The school aspects are quite well done. As is the aversion to bucolic pastoral life, but the asides as to how much better it would be with some technology if only she knew hw to build a computer quickly become tiresome. The author frequently fails to realize the interconnectedness of technology: you can't have a computer without a phone system without systematic mining, without mineral surveys, forges, engines et al. One other grevious plot hole is the sudden appearance of a herd of horses for the heroes to escape on- they'd just notably walked up a mountain and through some tunnels, but suddenly there are horses ready to ride.
Quite fast paced with a few characters being a little abrupt in decision making and quickly changing their minds, it's nevertheless quite fun. It turns out there are another 23 in the series, and I'm not quite sure I'm willing to embark on that many.
Emily is just an
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ordinary slightly nerdy teenager, not one of or wanting to be, one the in-crowd, but doing ok in college however with nothing much to look forward to. She's suddenly kidnapped/teleported to another world (The Nameless World), to be sacrificed as a Child of Destiny before being abruptly rescued by a mysterious benefactor/guardian. Who promptly decided she had magical potential and needs to be enrolled in the Magic School for her own safety and potentially to help save the known world against an invasion of cantankerous necromancers. The school aspects are quite well done. As is the aversion to bucolic pastoral life, but the asides as to how much better it would be with some technology if only she knew hw to build a computer quickly become tiresome. The author frequently fails to realize the interconnectedness of technology: you can't have a computer without a phone system without systematic mining, without mineral surveys, forges, engines et al. One other grevious plot hole is the sudden appearance of a herd of horses for the heroes to escape on- they'd just notably walked up a mountain and through some tunnels, but suddenly there are horses ready to ride.
Quite fast paced with a few characters being a little abrupt in decision making and quickly changing their minds, it's nevertheless quite fun. It turns out there are another 23 in the series, and I'm not quite sure I'm willing to embark on that many.
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Schooled in Magic, 1
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