Schooled in Magic

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Review #1

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I read some of the reviews before writing my own and even if some of the cons described in them are quite valid (too many Harry Potter references, lots of digressions and a teenage main character who is better read than many academics) I feel essential to point out that most of those are only true with the first book of the series. Indeed, it was one of the author’s first array into fantasy back in 2014 (rather than sci-fi) and the story and style has been going smoother and smoother with each installment as he kept refining his craft.
And what a series it is! I’m currently waiting for the final book (the 23rd of the series) to be released and I can’t help checking for it every day even though I know I will receive an email notification as soon as it is. That’s how immersive and captivating the overall story is.
Why is that?
The main reasons are first that, Christopher Nuttall has built a very precise yet complex magic system which he expands as the story goes. There are no plot elements which are solved solely because ‘it’s magic!’contrary to many fantasy series and when magic does save the day (it’s after all a series entitled Schooled in Magic), the reader is left with no doubt as to the hows and whys. And whenever something is left unexplained, rest assured that it will be later on in the series.
That’s another great thing about it, there is no ‘plot-filler’, no useless characters who are mainly here temporarily to conveniently forward the plot. No, most characters are explored in depth (even if many come and go and are sometimes not present for a few books at a time) and have their own story ark.
Last but not least, and that’s something you can find in most of the author’s many series, actions do have consequences and characters have to live up to the choices they make and the brunt of their consequences (or the guilt) when they get it wrong.
That is just as true in world-building: Nuttall loves to explore the relations between classes, between political powers, the subjectivity of recorded History… We get to see the Nameless World through many different perspectives, not just Emily’s and knowing how most protagonists view things makes for proper realism despite the presence of magic. There is no clear cut dichotomy in that world (just as in real life) and those who may appear to be the bad guys (or good guys) at first glance often have very good reasons for acting the way they do and that’s most refreshing to read.

So, in a nutshell we can see that I love the series, so much so in fact that I’ve started translating it into French so that my daughter and girlfriend could read it as well.

About Book one:

Emily, a 16-year-old no-life bookworm with low self-esteem is suddenly pulled off the face of the Earth to be transported into the lair of an evil Necromancer in a different medieval-like world where magic exists.
She is however rescued before he can sacrifice her for power by a powerful sorcerer who tells her she has magical abilities and then sends her to Whitehall, a school of magic to learn how to control those powers and protect herself from the Necromancer.
It may sounds like a Harry Potter spin-off but, despite the many references to it, it is a very different story and a very different boarding school. It’s a much more realistic one where students are actually taught things and where the bullying which often takes place in those schools isn’t glossed over (or given the friendly faces of a couple of twin pranksters). Speaking of realism, Medieval Times are not romanticized in that series, it stinks, it is a cut-throat vicious world in which only the strong and powerful can rise above the ambient filth and hope to live above 30.
Emily struggles throughout the book to find her place in that new environment, with the Necromancer’s threat still looming over her, while at the same time trying to introduce inventions from Earth to make it less primitive. In doing so, she will obviously make friends (and enemies) and have many an adventure.
Even if it’s probably the weakest book of the series as the author was trying to find its pace and organize his many ideas for it Schooled in Magic is still a very enjoyable journey and a page-turner which will lead you to want to explore the whole ark. That latter takes place almost in real time with few ellipsis along the way as the 23 books only cover 7 or 8 years of Emily’s life and many of them are not set in Whitehall but allow us to explore different parts of the Nameless World, its geography, class-struggles, economy…

Review #2

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Christopher G Nuttall’s artistic skill in writing is fantastic and whimsical. From starting with world-building, he can take the reader into the world he creates and develops how the world functions. Starting little rough in some aspects but builds with time. Nuttall writing and storytelling is captivating and makes a reader want to continue to the next story without pause.

Nuttall’s introduction to players and characters within the story and their growth makes the reader want to know more. Many of his book series, including this one, are created with his readers in mind. While some people’s tastes are different, those looking for a highly entertaining story to sit and enjoy should pick up any of them created by Christopher G Nuttalls.

Review #3

Audiobook Schooled in Magic by Christopher G. Nuttall

I’m sure that this has been there all along but I had rarely noticed it. I had just finished reading a book I had purchased from Amazon.com on my Kindle. It then said something like Before You Go and listed six or eight OTHER books that it said other people had purchased who had also purchased the book I just read. What I found interesting is that all of the titles except one were authors/books I had read and enjoyed very much. So I said to myself, how about I go look at the one title I had never heard of?
Thus I found Schooled in Magic by Christopher Nuttall. This is both the name of the first book and the name of the series. I noted that two or three
books came out per year. That should have been the major clue. Yes, this is not traditionally published but rather self-published on Amazon.com. I had had varying success with self-published Amazon.com Kindle books by authors I had never heard of.
I was pleasantly surprised that I liked Schooled in Magic. A lot.
Schooled in Magic struck me as somewhat like the Harry Potter series (yes, our protagonist is sixteen and not eleven when we first meet her but she is shortly enrolled in Whitehall, this magical world’s equivalent to Hogwarts) but it also reminded me of A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, one of my favorite Mark Twain books. Like the protagonist in the Twain book, Emily finds herself suddenly in a medieval world.
An evil necromancer (yes, they are all evil, but still) has summoned her from Earth [where she was friendless with an abusive step-father who was
always telling her that she would never make anything of herself and how stupid she was, etc. and he also was verbally abusive to her mother as well so Emily felt miserable but just short of suicidal] because she was supposed to be a Child of Destiny and a sorceress who had not yet come into her power. It turns out that the necromancer is nowhere near as clever as he thought he was because Emily’s mother’s name happened to be Destiny and Emily was not even from the necromancer’s planet. What was interesting is that Emily, though not likely the expected “Child of Destiny”, DOES seem to have magical powers. Which, of course, she has no idea how to use, being a child of non-magical Earth.
As soon as she gets to the school, though, Emily is asking her roommates about patents and if she came up with a new idea could she be guaranteed exclusive use so she could make money. One of her roommates’ father is a merchant. So she asks her roommate to send an idea home. Emily notices that the magical world is still using Roman numbers. Yes, like the Super Bowl and copyright years for movies. With the XVLIs, etc. Emily introduces her roommate to Arabic numbers. This revolutionary idea makes the Accountants Guild superfluous almost overnight because now ANYONE could do sums and keep books for their family or business.
Another idea Emily introduces is the stirrup for riding horses.
I had always had an interest in history and, in particular, in the history of technology. I remember a TV show called Connections with James Burke.
The stirrup was in one episode and showed how the side which used the stirrup in war had better control of their horses, leaving the arms free to more effectively use weapons against the other side.
I also enjoyed how Emily had absolutely read all of the Harry Potter books and was very much aware she was now attending “Hogwarts”. Also, like Harry, even though she was a first year student, she found herself in advanced classes like Martial Magic (yes, battle magic) because she had already made enemies, with the ideas she was sending home to her roommate’s father.
Hogwarts gets attacked in the last book in the Harry Potter series. Whitehall gets attacked in this first book. (So that part has already happened.)
Schooled in Magic is a smart, funny, adventurous book with a likable female lead trying to make her own way in her new world. Emily really isn’t
interested in trying to go home (her guardian the white wizard doubts that would even be possible) but she does ask her guardian if he can pick up
a few textbooks from home, as Emily would love to introduce computers and other common Earth tech to her new magical world but, like most people, doesn’t really know how they work.
She wishes she had a copy of the book The Way Things Work (one of my personal favorites). [I might have asked for the World Book Encyclopedia, but 30 volumes may be more than the wizard could possibly obtain.]
And I am very glad to have “discovered” the author Christopher Nuttall (who also has a space opera series I might read after the Schooled in Magic series and he has many other series as well!).

Review #4

Audio Schooled in Magic narrated by Tavia Gilbert

Let’s be clear here, this is not high literature or even great fantasy BUT I have read every one in the series as despite various irritating aspects of the authors style it’s very engaging and you can dip in and out very easily without worrying you might have missed something subtle in the plot. Don’t worry! Anything important is referred to frequently and often repeatedly within the same dialogue so you won’t get lost. The writing style is simple and without subtlety an irritating example being his habit of getting Emily to wonder something in her head then ask it out loud essentially writing the same sentence twice back to back. If you can ignore this and just enjoy the book for the light read it is there are some fun ideas in it and the characters are engaging enough that you can skim over some of the more obvious bits.

Review #5

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The author doesn’t half write a lot of books. He churns them out at an extremely high rate of knots so you’re usually not waiting much longer than a few weeks for another one. While none of them are exactly great works of fiction, his writing style is measure and well paced. The stories flow well and whilst the plot twists are a bit obvious the characterisation is well done so you do engage with them. The first book in this series is a bit rough around the edges but he found his feet fairly quickly, best way to think of it is as a good soap opera rather than an epic tale.

One thing that does come through really strongly is he has a serious issue with alcohol. If you enjoy a beer you need to prepare yourself for regular explanations for why boozing is a bad thing. Sometimes germane to the plot, but sometimes not. Seriously dude, we get it 🙂

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