Charlie N. Holmberg
Autor(a) de The Paper Magician
About the Author
Image credit: Author photo for Charlie N. Holmberg, 2017 By Lehinicholes - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=60709102
Séries
Obras de Charlie N. Holmberg
Deep Magic December 2016 — Editor — 5 cópias
Wizard of Most Wicked Ways (Whimbrel House, #4) 1 exemplar(es)
Magic and Miracles — Autor — 1 exemplar(es)
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome de batismo
- Holmberg, Charlie Nicholes
- Data de nascimento
- 1988-04-04
- Sexo
- female
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
Sandy, Utah, USA - Locais de residência
- Moscow, Idaho, USA
Utah, USA - Educação
- Brigham Young University (BA) (English and editing) (2010)
- Ocupação
- technical editor
freelance editor - Organizações
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
- Agente
- Marlene Stringer (Stringer Literary)
- Pequena biografia
- Born in Salt Lake City, Charlie N. Holmberg was raised a Trekkie alongside three sisters who also have boy names. She is a proud BYU alumna, plays the ukulele, owns too many pairs of glasses, and finally adopted a dog. Her fantasy Paper Magician series, which includes The Paper Magician, The Glass Magician, and The Master Magician, has been optioned by the Walt Disney Company. Her stand-alone novel, Followed by Frost, was nominated for a 2016 RITA Award for Best Young Adult Romance, and her novel The Fifth Doll won the 2018 Whitney for Speculative Fiction. She is a board member for Deep Magic Ezine and lives with her family in Utah. Visit her at www.charlienholmberg.com.
Membros
Resenhas
2.75
Lady who loves to tinker is asked by a duo of alien looking dudes to fix a machine in their tower. Things feel dodgy and eventually she figures out what’s up.
This was literally a book about a chick fixing a machine along with an amnesia trope. Not my jam.
Lady who loves to tinker is asked by a duo of alien looking dudes to fix a machine in their tower. Things feel dodgy and eventually she figures out what’s up.
This was literally a book about a chick fixing a machine along with an amnesia trope. Not my jam.
It's not really clear in Charlie Holmberg's The Paper Magician if one needs to have been born with magic. Ceony Twill doesn't seem to have manifested any particular powers from what we learn about her life before attending Tagis Praff School for the Magically Inclined. But she does want to learn magic, and maybe that's good enough. In the world Holmberg builds, students take the classes they want and experiment and may aspire to a particular kind of magic, but ultimately are bonded to one particular kind of substance through which they can perform it. Ceony longs to be bonded to metal, but instead, because of a lack of paper magicians, she's sent to Emery Thane, to become his apprentice.
Ceony sulks a little but I was pleasantly surprised at how non-mopey she generally was...it seems like characters like this are usually 100% pro-pity parties. But even though she wishes it hadn't been so, she dedicates herself to learning the craft of paper magic. She's settling into a mostly comfortable groove when suddenly she and Emery, on who she is starting to develop a bit of a crush, are brutally attacked by an evil magician, and although she's been forbidden to, she (of course) adventures to save him. She has to make a journey, both literal and metaphorical, through his heart in order to do so.
The journey through the heart is where most of the character development comes from. It's in a way a kind of blunt plot device...instead of having to learn things about her Emery's inner life organically, she's treated to highlight and lowlight reels of the most sensitive, defining moments of his life. But I think it works, mostly. It not only rounds out his character, but it makes her growing crush seem less like the oh-so-tiresome InstaLove trope. And the system of magic that Holmberg creates for her world is fresh and interesting. But at the end of the day, this isn't high literature. It's fluffy, and perfect for the way I read it: on an airplane. Or at a beach. It's pleasant and light and thinking about it too hard isn't recommended. There are sequels, but I'm not nearly invested enough to seek them out. If you need something to help pass the time, though, you could do a lot worse.… (mais)
Ceony sulks a little but I was pleasantly surprised at how non-mopey she generally was...it seems like characters like this are usually 100% pro-pity parties. But even though she wishes it hadn't been so, she dedicates herself to learning the craft of paper magic. She's settling into a mostly comfortable groove when suddenly she and Emery, on who she is starting to develop a bit of a crush, are brutally attacked by an evil magician, and although she's been forbidden to, she (of course) adventures to save him. She has to make a journey, both literal and metaphorical, through his heart in order to do so.
The journey through the heart is where most of the character development comes from. It's in a way a kind of blunt plot device...instead of having to learn things about her Emery's inner life organically, she's treated to highlight and lowlight reels of the most sensitive, defining moments of his life. But I think it works, mostly. It not only rounds out his character, but it makes her growing crush seem less like the oh-so-tiresome InstaLove trope. And the system of magic that Holmberg creates for her world is fresh and interesting. But at the end of the day, this isn't high literature. It's fluffy, and perfect for the way I read it: on an airplane. Or at a beach. It's pleasant and light and thinking about it too hard isn't recommended. There are sequels, but I'm not nearly invested enough to seek them out. If you need something to help pass the time, though, you could do a lot worse.… (mais)
This was incredibly boring
There’s slow burn and then there’s GLACIAL - brrr the romance is cold in here
The only thing I liked about this book was Merrit, the house keeper and cook
There’s slow burn and then there’s GLACIAL - brrr the romance is cold in here
The only thing I liked about this book was Merrit, the house keeper and cook
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 28
- Membros
- 7,662
- Avaliação
- 3.7
- Resenhas
- 358
- ISBNs
- 127
- Idiomas
- 8
- Favorito
- 2
There’s slow burn and then there’s GLACIAL - brrr the romance is cold in here
The only thing I liked about this book was Merrit, the house keeper and cook