Bookworm edition by Christopher Nuttall Literature Fiction eBooks
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Elaine is an orphan girl who has grown up in a world where magical ability brings power. Her limited talent was enough to ensure a magical training but she’s very inexperienced and was lucky to get a position working in the Great Library. Now, the Grand Sorcerer – the most powerful magician of them all – is dying, although initially that makes little difference to Elaine; she certainly doesn’t have the power to compete for higher status in the Golden City. But all that changes when she triggers a magical trap and ends up with all the knowledge from the Great Library – including forbidden magic that no one is supposed to know – stuffed inside her head. This unwanted gift doesn’t give her greater power, but it does give her a better understanding of magic, allowing her to accomplish far more than ever before.
It’s also terribly dangerous. If the senior wizards find out what has happened to her, they will almost certainly have her killed. The knowledge locked away in the Great Library was meant to remain permanently sealed and letting it out could mean a repeat of the catastrophic Necromantic Wars of five hundred years earlier. Elaine is forced to struggle with the terrors and temptations represented by her newfound knowledge, all the while trying to stay out of sight of those she fears, embodied by the sinister Inquisitor Dread.
But a darkly powerful figure has been drawing up a plan to take the power of the Grand Sorcerer for himself; and Elaine, unknowingly, is vital to his scheme. Unless she can unlock the mysteries behind her new knowledge, divine the unfolding plan, and discover the truth about her own origins, there is no hope for those she loves, the Golden City or her entire world.
Bookworm has won the GOLD award in the Adult fiction category of the 2013 Wishing Shelf Independent Book Awards.
Bookworm edition by Christopher Nuttall Literature Fiction eBooks
*Inappropriate for younger readers.* This novel contains several graphic sexual scenes and multiple comments about diverse sexual practices. While not totally gratuitous, these scenes can easily be skipped if your taste, like mine, is for less detail in such matters.Review: Legions of schoolboys would love to believe that they could fall asleep on a pile of schoolbooks, and wake having absorbed all the required reading within. But for Elaine, who loves to read, a curse has handed her this result. Not for her schoolbooks, but for the entire contents of the Empire's Library, a repository of magical tomes—some of which are banned. Elaine became a Librarian because her level of power for practicing magic was quite low. Without any more power, she now has a deep and complete understanding of magic, as well as the Empire's history, and secrets that have lain hidden in the Library's Black Vault.
This series follows by several centuries the tale of Emily, who brought physical, chemical science to this world from Earth, as told in Nuttall's 10-volume "Schooled In Magic" series. This later Empire is still linked by Emily's steam-engine trains, but the old tension between "town and gown" remains. In this world, however, "gown" is the garb of the magic-user, while the "town" is filled with "mundanes" who possess no magical powers.
To make matters worse, the capital city has entered into a time of chaos between the death of one ruling Grand Sorcerer and the selection of the next. The Inquisitors who would normally answer to this ruler are now free to enforce the regulations without oversight—and it is strictly illegal for Elaine to have the knowledge the curse has planted in her mind!
Nuttall has crafted another delicious story of a world where magic follows strict rules, just like any other "science," and where people do not become superhuman just because they possess powers we do not. If anything, most of Nuttall's magic users are surpassingly petty and unempathetic.
Not excluding the heroine Elaine.
In fact, the tale's most empathetic and thoughtful characters may be the ominous Inquisitor Dread, whose task it seems to be to catch Elaine in a crime, and the socially active Daria, her roommate and friend, who has assigned herself the role of matchmaker for the socially awkward, shy Elaine.
I look forward with great anticipation to the next three books in the series. If they are as intensely engrossing as this first, I will be finished reading them shortly!
Liner Note: The author uses the British term "revise" where American English users would write "review." Since the opening scenes of the novel portray anxious students cramming (swotting) for exams, a jarring multiple occurrence of the term finally sent me to the Kindle dictionary. After, unfortunately, I had already marked it twice as a typo.
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Bookworm edition by Christopher Nuttall Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
First I'm a huge fan of C Nuttall. I'm steadily knocking down his works. He epitomizes the ebook field. Good talented writer, affordable books, series that entertain. And no, I don't know why I'm captivated by the sword and sorcery genre right now.
Bookworm got 4 stars only because it was on the cusp of greatness but only achieved excellent. I loved the concept of a library crammed into one person's mind. Loved a bad guy planning for a 1000 years. I wanted the subtle details. Don't get me wrong, the characters were developed, the ending was not rushed, it is a good read. And BW2 is already on the carousel. Hopefully the series reveals the depths I want to explore.
At first I thought it was just the typical hero story. Where the hero starts off hapless, but over time becomes capable, and theoretically that's what happens. It even had some promise, the hero is physically weak, but makes up for it with her intelligence, strong morals and willpower.
In practice, the foolish hero stumbles her way from one damsel in distress situation to the next (she's the damsel, often by her own actions). When she's not currently being held at the mercy of some nefarious bad guy, she's harping on the horrors of a society where the strong rule the weak and all the different ways someone can be mind-controlled or sold into slavery or turned into a dog or w/e... She succeeds more through luck and plot device than good judgement or skill.
I think those are fine topics for a book to discus, I just thought they were getting pretty worn out by the end of the second book. In hindsight they are pretty common topics in all his books, but they are a couple times more common in this series than the others.
The world and magic in this series bears resemblance to the author's later "Schooled in Magic" series and even the main character (Elaine) is personality-wise similar to the Schooled in Magic main character (Emily). And it's also true, as other reviewers noted, that "Schooled in Magic" is a more polished and more sophisticated work, probably because the author has simply written more books.
So if you've read Schooled in Magic and will be disappointed if anything isn't up to its spectacularly high level of art, then this might not be a good series for you.
On the other hand, I loved it - everything about it!
A girl like her would never be that easy, especially after the violation to her in Ida, men just wish they were. And no way in he double hockey sticks would she have done in in front of witnesses. I am a bit disgusted. If I had read this book first instead of The Child of Destiny series I don't think I would have kept reading his work. Not a prude just really sick of reading about overly easy woman and rape of any kind. Too many writers go down that path and it's disconcerting
I really enjoy multi-faceted plot lines and this 4-part series delivers one of the best I’ve read in years. Don’t skip paragraphs here, folks, or you’ll likely miss a subtle clue or reveal wedged into a character’s meandering thoughts.
The setting for the series seems to be the Nameless World of the Schooled in Magic series, and draws wonderfully on the rich magic-science system from it. Having followed that series for years, reading this set felt like coming home.
But be warned! Get all 4 and plan on a long weekend of reading ) I started my first read on a Friday and found myself with page-turners becoming book-openers! It’s a glorious romp through a world of magic and mystery, with new pieces of the author’s Universe laid out in almost every chapter.
I’m looking forward to seeing how some of these ideas come back to the Schooled series in books to come.
Great job, Christopher!
*Inappropriate for younger readers.* This novel contains several graphic sexual scenes and multiple comments about diverse sexual practices. While not totally gratuitous, these scenes can easily be skipped if your taste, like mine, is for less detail in such matters.
Review Legions of schoolboys would love to believe that they could fall asleep on a pile of schoolbooks, and wake having absorbed all the required reading within. But for Elaine, who loves to read, a curse has handed her this result. Not for her schoolbooks, but for the entire contents of the Empire's Library, a repository of magical tomes—some of which are banned. Elaine became a Librarian because her level of power for practicing magic was quite low. Without any more power, she now has a deep and complete understanding of magic, as well as the Empire's history, and secrets that have lain hidden in the Library's Black Vault.
This series follows by several centuries the tale of Emily, who brought physical, chemical science to this world from Earth, as told in Nuttall's 10-volume "Schooled In Magic" series. This later Empire is still linked by Emily's steam-engine trains, but the old tension between "town and gown" remains. In this world, however, "gown" is the garb of the magic-user, while the "town" is filled with "mundanes" who possess no magical powers.
To make matters worse, the capital city has entered into a time of chaos between the death of one ruling Grand Sorcerer and the selection of the next. The Inquisitors who would normally answer to this ruler are now free to enforce the regulations without oversight—and it is strictly illegal for Elaine to have the knowledge the curse has planted in her mind!
Nuttall has crafted another delicious story of a world where magic follows strict rules, just like any other "science," and where people do not become superhuman just because they possess powers we do not. If anything, most of Nuttall's magic users are surpassingly petty and unempathetic.
Not excluding the heroine Elaine.
In fact, the tale's most empathetic and thoughtful characters may be the ominous Inquisitor Dread, whose task it seems to be to catch Elaine in a crime, and the socially active Daria, her roommate and friend, who has assigned herself the role of matchmaker for the socially awkward, shy Elaine.
I look forward with great anticipation to the next three books in the series. If they are as intensely engrossing as this first, I will be finished reading them shortly!
Liner Note The author uses the British term "revise" where American English users would write "review." Since the opening scenes of the novel portray anxious students cramming (swotting) for exams, a jarring multiple occurrence of the term finally sent me to the dictionary. After, unfortunately, I had already marked it twice as a typo.
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