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Libriomancer<\/a><\/em> (2012) Jim C. Hines<\/a><\/p>\n

\"LibriomancerCover\"<\/a>I really, really wanted to love this story. Instead, I just liked it, but came away with a vague feeling of disappointment–not because the book was bad–it wasn’t–but because I had wanted so much more out of the story, and it didn’t deliver.<\/p>\n

Isaac Vainio is working as a librarian in a small town in the U.P. of Michigan. But he’s way more than meets the eye–he’s a libromancer. A Magician who can reach into books and pull out items that exist only between those pages, from a laser gun to a magical sword to an invisibility cloak.<\/p>\n

And that’s what immediately sucked me into the story–the idea of being able to reach into a book and pull out anything that would fit through the pages.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, the story fell flat for me in a couple ways. First, the romance just didn’t work at all for me. I felt like it could have been removed completely from the story and nothing would have been missing.<\/p>\n

Second, I never quite got the feel for the magic and what it couldn’t<\/em> do. That may seem a somewhat strange issue, but with magic, limits are important. If someone can do anything, it gets… boring. And I started to get a little bored with the magic. Which was just WRONG.<\/p>\n

But there wasn’t anything particularly wrong with the story, nothing made me mad, and I tore through the story in a couple hours, so it was obviously readable. <\/p>\n

It just could have been more than it was, and not meeting my possibly unrealistic expectations left me with that feeling of vague disappointment. But I still think it’s a book well worth reading–just don’t let your expectations get to high, and I think you’ll enjoy it.
\nRating: 6\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n

Published by DAW
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