Study in Slaughter

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Review #1

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I have to say that, so far, I prefer the instalments of this series where Emily is continuing her character development at Whitehall. In this instalment Emily is back in Whitehall just in time for a nice murder mystery so the book does indeed get off to a good start. The book starts off with Emily being forced to share room with two new roommates instead of with her friends by a not so likable new teacher at the school. Also, one of the roommates are, well, not exactly human. Fairly soon some disgusting stuff hits the magical fan when a murder is discovered and from there the body count rises rapidly while Emily and the teachers tries to figure out what is happening.

This book is pretty much a standalone episode in the series in that it has a well-defined start, middle and end and focuses on a single event, the murder mystery, a bit like a Hercule Poirot TV-episode. It of course follows the previous book time wise and story wise and events and there effects in previous books are present in this book as I am sure that some of the events in this book will indeed have some impact in later books. Still, this book feels more standalone than many books in a series and it is not moving some “grand scheme” or story arc ahead as much as some books do. Personally I am quite happy with this. I do not like book series that ends up feeling like one big series of cliffhangers.

As usual Emily have to deal with a wee bit of politics, a lot of interpersonal relations and, of course, the bad guys…or should I perhaps say the bad things? Actually it is perhaps a bit of both but I wont spoil the book by going into details. As the book focuses primarily on the murder mystery, the latter which also disrupts the entire school and the studies for everyone, the actual character development, at least in terms of Emily’s advancements in magic skills, are not so prominent in this book. Again I do not mind at all. If nothing else it makes the good stuff last longer. Having said that I am a bit split on the issue of a few of her ideas which are considered “too dangerous” by her teachers. I still would have liked Emily to surprise her environment with some impressive magic at some point. That is a very minor gripe though.

Completely unsurprising the book is as well written as usual. The characters are well done, the atmosphere is excellent and the story is a good one. Having read several of Mr. Nuttall’s books by now I am indeed impressed by his ability to write such diverse (fantasy, sci-fi, military etc…) stories with the same excellence. Most good authors I know tend to stay in one genre or at least I only like their books in one genre.

Review #2

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I like that Emily’s ideas don’t always work, and even sometimes backfire. I like that she doesn’t know everything, and is often willing to admit it beforehand. I’m glad that she rarely feels she’s being punished for no reason, and tries to learn from her mistakes. In many ways, she’s an admirably imperfect character.

I’m about ready to scream if Nuttall writes “Emily scowled.” one more time. It occurs on almost every single page of this book (in the font I’m using), and often is inappropriate. Once he wrote, “Emily frowned” but it was only once. In the whole book.

Another issue is Emily’s continuing inability to think before she acts. An excuse for that is given at the very end of this book, and yet it’s something Emily has done so often in the other books that it seems part of her character. I also didn’t like how arrogant she’s becoming, but maybe that just means she’s human. The other thing that bothered me here was how careless her friends are of Emily’s safety. They knew she had just been granted permission to use magic outside class after weeks of being hexed and attacked by other students, and yet Alassa hexes Emily to her seat at a Ken match, leaving her either still vulnerable to other students, or forced to reveal that she can use magic again. Emily makes excuses for Alassa on the grounds that Emily had hurt her feelings by leaving Alassa’s first Ken match before it was over, but that didn’t seem quite fair to me. Alassa and Imaiquah don’t have the right to insist that Emily use all her free time to watch them play. Yes, it was their first game and Emily should have stayed the whole time for that reason, but she had shown up and stayed more than the first half, and they gave her no credit for that much.

In general, Emily seems to have trouble setting boundaries, she’s very quick to agree with people who have something negative to say about her, and yet she’s also not completely responsible or disciplined. Typical seventeen year old who’s had a bad childhood and nowhere near enough love and support, and I do hope she begins to learn self-love and self-reliance soon. The experiences with her stepfather seem liable to break her otherwise, either directly, by crushing her self-confidence, or indirectly, by the habit they’ve taught her of freezing in dangerous situations. The story continues to intrigue, however, and is certainly complex, adult in many ways and broad enough in scope to develop into later books.

Review #3

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What Emily, as a child of Earth, does not know about her new planet begins to catch up to her in book three Study in Slaughter as she begins her Second Year at Whitehall.
Common knowledge, stuff her fellow Whitehall students learned as toddlers (especially growing up in magical families), is a particular blind spot for Emily. After all, how do you know what you don’t know?
Just to make it more interesting, her mutual request with her best friends to room together in year two is overruled on the basis that it would be better for the girls to widen their circle of friends. Instead, Emily finds herself paired with two roommates new to Whitehall, one a Gorgon (otherwise known as Medusa, complete with live snakes as hair) and the other a transfer student from Mountaintop, a rival wizard school.
Plus, it turns out that the Head of Second Year (lead Second Year teacher) dislikes Emily on sight!
So, Emily has her hands full and, of course this being Emily’s life, much mayhem ensues.
I heartily recommend this entire series to anyone who enjoys fantasy, especially the crossover between Emily’s Earth sensibilities (yes, she has not only read all of the Harry Potter books but she’s seen Star Trek, etc. too!) and life in a medieval wizard society.
This series continues to strongly remind me of a Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, one of my all-time favorite Mark Twain books!

Review #4

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The first part of it does spend quite some time on the rather mundane issues related to Emily’s second year in the Magic School, seemingly almost a repeat of the first book. But then the main plot of the book arrives, and it’s fairly good. It’s just that firstly the similarities between this and another well-known book are apparent (a murderer on the loose from Azerbaijan, mmm? Dement… sorry, mediators.) But also secondly, the basic plot instantly reminded me of a certain 1982 John Carpenter movie set in Antarctica, including a scene based on the “blood test” from that movie. And not to forget that scene being referenced in a particular DS9 episode, which is explicitly (and rather inexplicably) mentioned in the book. It again makes me feel that this isn’t the character’s voice, but the author’s coming through.

A few things are bothering me about this series: we don’t see much of the “outside world”, just the school and Alassa’s quest to find a suitor in the previous book. I’m hopeful this will be rectified in the next book. But the bigger problem is that, like the other well-known “trainee wizard” series, it seems there are all these experienced, powerful and often aged wizards around, yet they just seem to stand around and do nothing but talk whilst some young and inexperienced student saves the day. Again and again. I’m thinking this is just something that will have to be endured.

Review #5

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I’ve gone on before about the bad American spelling that should not be in a book written by a Scot so enough said. The overuse of smirk drives me nuts too as often it is so inappropriate! It still bothers me that the main punishment at this boarding school is spanking as these students are university age almost and it is very wrong. However I feel Emily is very immature for her age, why on Earth does she want to introduce dangerous things like guns and gunpowder? There are so many better things like antibiotics and flushing toilets and her lack of concern about people eating cats makes her very unlikeable.
Were I to meet someone like her at school I would hate her. That said many of the twists and turns in the story did hold my interest, but I don`t like the heroine much at all.

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