Libriomancer (Magic Ex Libris Book 1)

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Taking place in Michigan, Libriomancer posits a new form of magic that appeals to bibliophiles everywhere. It has many similarities with the Dresden Files except this magician is a librarian and all his magic is drawn from books. Libriomancer, sorcerers, vampires ( Sanguinarius Meyerii), werewolves, dryad, fire-spider, automatons, wendigo, Devourers.

But when Gutenberg vanishes without a trace, Isaac finds himself pitted against everything from vampires to a sinister, nameless foe who is bent on revealing magic to the world at large. Of course, the “why not” gets into the whole question of limits and Hines is smart enough to make sure the magic is limited. All kinds of sf references, many that only true fans would recognize (particularly Doctor Who stuff), and Firefly is one of his top two shows. she's also majorly kick-ass and saves Isaac on more than one occasion, one time even shielding his body with hers.

Smudge is a great familiar, and Isaac would do well to pay attention to what Smudge tries to communicate to him.

It was an uncomfortable read at times with regards to Lena but that made the book less mindless fun and a lot more impacting and affecting for me. She is in a relationship with another woman and is also developing another relationship with Isaac – both lovers would inevitably be able to control Lena should they wish to, given her nature (thankfully, this freaks Isaac out as it has freaked her other lover out). As you can see, it’s quite funny in a geeky SFF way – it really helps if you know the books in the bibliography [not the made-up ones, obviously]. Because the book world is nearly infinite, the magic can still be a bit problematic, but I think Hines pretty much does his duty with the premise, allowing the reader to accept and move on. Since each supernatural group has the exact characteristics delineated by the author, we can understand why the Meyerii vamps are nicknamed Sparklers.but I can assure you that anyone, even someone who hasn't found "that" book to infuse their love of reading, can pick this up and enjoy it. bevor der Held in den Kampf zieht, munitioniert er sich in einem Buchgeschaeft auf (SF/Fantasy, aber auch Geschichtsbuecher sind nuetzlicher als Liebesromane . The plot is a little more than basic in that the hero is cast aside by the organisation from which he belongs and has to save the day without anything more than a little help in the form of a dryad and a fire spider. It is so much fun and an ode to books, to reading as well as to genre-fiction especially Scifi and Fantasy. Isaac Vainio es un humano miembro de la orden de libromantes, creada por Gutemberg, el inventor de la imprenta.

That’s the kind of power that our protagonist, Isaac Vainio, has found and given up and found again. And because he’s a fantasy/sci fi fan, the tools he uses are instantly, joyfully recognizable to many of us. He only survives because his crush-of-sorts, the Dryad Lena Greenwood comes to his aid and tells him that Nidhi Shah, his therapist and the person Lena was supposed to be bodyguarding has been kidnapped. The main thing that knocked me out of enjoying this book for the cool, light read it could have been was the issue of free will.Isaac’s choices will determine the fate of his friends, the Porters, the students of Bi Sheng, and the world. I thought Lena was an interesting character but she was set up in such a way that she will never be free of her burdens which prevent her from being truly real. Isaac only survives thanks to an early warning from his fire spider and the fortuitous arrival of Lena, an oak-tough dryad with an intriguing past. a hyper-dense, info-dumpy start turned out not to be much of an impediment to my enjoyment at all; this thing went up like a rocket, and never came back down. Everything else is mentioned, even the existence of self-published books (which is a big part of the main plotline).

Reading Is Cool" Aesop: Isaac often waxes poetic about the sheer joy of reading, is a professional librarian, and every other libriomancer is an avid reader themselves. In a book about the magic of books, the magic of words, I would expect to have that feeling more strongly, and it isn’t here for me until Isaac and Lena begin studying one of Gutenberg’s automatons, two-thirds of the way through the book.Michigan librarian Isaac Vainio is powerless to stop her, having been stripped of his power and his place among the Porters by Johannes Gutenberg himself. He claims to have read every sf/f book in his work library (3,000+), plus every vampire novel ever written, plus the ones that he needs that aren't there plus plenty of non-sf/f books plus all the ones he has to catalog for the agency--I don't think even a book a day would be enough to get through all that given that he's fairly young and couldn't have started reading all the adult stuff until the middle grades at the earliest. The dryads in those books change their surface appearance according to the desires of their lovers and they exist only to fulfil someone’s fantasy. Pareciera que Hines introduce en una olla muchos elementos que distintas autoras y autores de ficción han utilizado a lo largo de las décadas y de allí va sacando recursos que le sirven de insumo para construir todo el relato que estructura a El Mago de los libros. Isaac is all of these things, but he’s also joyful and transparent and emotional and has somehow maintained an innocence that is incredibly sweet.