Anonymous
6/26/2025, 12:47:28 AM
No.24496384
>>24495332
>You will know when you read them. You have them in your to-read list.
lol nah, I actually read then.
>>24494930
Alright. I slept on it. Here are my thoughts: I liked it. But it's a little dry. For a book called "magician", there is actually very little magic. It's a fairly large book. Apparently, the first two books were once 1 book, and then latter editions split them into 2 books. That's why I read them together, because it seemed like I needed to read both in order to get the whole story. Individually, the books aren't small. Together, it's a large book. And so when I say there's very little magic, I mean in comparison to how large the books are. Magical stuff does occur in the book. But those events are rare. Magic more seems to serve as turning points to drive the story in a new direction. So they're all carefully placed in the plot. Characters aren't just throwing fireballs around all willy nilly.
The real focus of the book isn't about a kid learning magic. But a kingdom getting pulled into a war by alien invaders. Characters travel about in attempts to sure up alliances, and along the way run into skirmishes here and there. So I guess you could think of it more like a political intrigue? Though I'm hesitant to call it that, since the intrigue isn't very intriguing. It's basically just like "we have to see the elf queen, to tell them about the invaders! Let's ride! Oh no! We're under attack!" "We have to seek out our neighboring lords or aid. Let's set sail! Oh no! We're under attack!"
The story does spend a bit of time establishing relationships between characters, so it doesn't feel shallow when something happens to a character. But even so, their relationships develop faster than what I'm accustomed to. Where they're strangers one page, and then suddenly have feelings for each other the next page. That's fairly common in older books. But still, an effort was made there, so I let myself feel sympathetic for this character or that.
I get a little spoilery here, so I'm adding tags to the whole paragraph. Reveal at your discretion.
I think the main issue with this book, is that there wasn't any sense to any of the conflict. I think that was the point. But it was a little disappointing none the less. The war started for no real grandiose reason. It was just the result of political maneuvering on the invader's side. And the resolution of the war was due to no grand destiny, no great revelation, or anything like that. Just a god-like being intervening. His plans unknowable until the very end of the book. And even after the explanation, it seems he too had no great destiny either. He was just powerful enough to see into the future, and figure out what must be done. So he set a few pieces into motion, in order to get to the inevitable future. He even says he was fated to do it. So it's not even like he had a choice. It was just the inevitable coming about.
>You will know when you read them. You have them in your to-read list.
lol nah, I actually read then.
>>24494930
Alright. I slept on it. Here are my thoughts: I liked it. But it's a little dry. For a book called "magician", there is actually very little magic. It's a fairly large book. Apparently, the first two books were once 1 book, and then latter editions split them into 2 books. That's why I read them together, because it seemed like I needed to read both in order to get the whole story. Individually, the books aren't small. Together, it's a large book. And so when I say there's very little magic, I mean in comparison to how large the books are. Magical stuff does occur in the book. But those events are rare. Magic more seems to serve as turning points to drive the story in a new direction. So they're all carefully placed in the plot. Characters aren't just throwing fireballs around all willy nilly.
The real focus of the book isn't about a kid learning magic. But a kingdom getting pulled into a war by alien invaders. Characters travel about in attempts to sure up alliances, and along the way run into skirmishes here and there. So I guess you could think of it more like a political intrigue? Though I'm hesitant to call it that, since the intrigue isn't very intriguing. It's basically just like "we have to see the elf queen, to tell them about the invaders! Let's ride! Oh no! We're under attack!" "We have to seek out our neighboring lords or aid. Let's set sail! Oh no! We're under attack!"
The story does spend a bit of time establishing relationships between characters, so it doesn't feel shallow when something happens to a character. But even so, their relationships develop faster than what I'm accustomed to. Where they're strangers one page, and then suddenly have feelings for each other the next page. That's fairly common in older books. But still, an effort was made there, so I let myself feel sympathetic for this character or that.
I get a little spoilery here, so I'm adding tags to the whole paragraph. Reveal at your discretion.
I think the main issue with this book, is that there wasn't any sense to any of the conflict. I think that was the point. But it was a little disappointing none the less. The war started for no real grandiose reason. It was just the result of political maneuvering on the invader's side. And the resolution of the war was due to no grand destiny, no great revelation, or anything like that. Just a god-like being intervening. His plans unknowable until the very end of the book. And even after the explanation, it seems he too had no great destiny either. He was just powerful enough to see into the future, and figure out what must be done. So he set a few pieces into motion, in order to get to the inevitable future. He even says he was fated to do it. So it's not even like he had a choice. It was just the inevitable coming about.