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“Too Many Books in the World to Slog Through the Ones You Hate”

April 10, 2017 by sabian30 Leave a Comment

Revisionary – Magic Ex Libris: Book Four by Jim C. Hines (2016) – Okay, I’m finally reviewing something written in this century and my first five star review of the year.  In these real-life days of politics, loss of rights, and impending war, it’s nice to slip into a nice urban fantasy about…politics, loss of rights, and impending war?  Of course, the real world doesn’t have people who can perform magic and pull practical items out of books to use in the worldwide fight against […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Tagged With: Jim C. Hines, Library Magic, Libriomancer, revisionary, Urban Fantasy

sabian30's CBR9 Review No:18 · Genres: Fantasy · Tags: Jim C. Hines, Library Magic, Libriomancer, revisionary, Urban Fantasy ·
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The last Magic Ex Libris book doesn’t disappoint.

January 24, 2016 by narfna 2 Comments

NB: I received a free review copy of this book but that has not affected the content of my review. Maybe you will understand just how much fun I think this series is if I tell you that I quite literally sent an email to Mr. Hines’s publicist begging her for a review copy, when I learned there were a few available. I was a bit nervous once it arrived though; in the unlikely event I didn’t like the book, I would be stuck with […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Tagged With: ARCs, fantasy, Jim C. Hines, magic ex libris, narfna, revisionary, Urban Fantasy

narfna's CBR8 Review No:12 · Genres: Fantasy · Tags: ARCs, fantasy, Jim C. Hines, magic ex libris, narfna, revisionary, Urban Fantasy ·
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