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Don't let the title fool you! A College of Magics is far more than a school story. It is a very deep, satisfying plot with many surprises. I was enthralled from beginning to end.

Stevermer's writing is deliberate and stately and suits the subject matter perfectly. Her alternate universe, an imaginary European nation in the 1910's in a world where magic is not uncommon, is real and believable. Her characters, Faris and Jane especially, are well fleshed and engaging.

On the whole, this is one of the best novels I've read this year and I am delighted I stumbled across it!


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A College of Magics Caroline Stevermer 9780765342454 Books Reviews

I enjoyed reading A College of Magics enough that I want to read the next book in the series, but the book could probably have been 100 pages shorter.
The author has an elegant prose style and the characters are amusing enough to sustain a reader's interest throughout the moderate length of the book. The plot is well-paced and centers on the adventures of Faris Nallaneen, a young woman who has been sent to Greenlaw College by her uncle who is ruling her kingdom until she comes of age. But a larger destiny and surprising perils await Faris.

I'm afraid I must condemn this book with such faint praises, because while it is well written it just didn't click. The author was uncertain in her setting--bits and pieces of the real world intruded, seeming less real than the fantasy landscapes. The heroine did not give the impression of any emotional depth. Comparisons to Hogwarts and Harry Potter are inevitable, and this work suffers by the comparison. Rowling might be a sloppy writer, with less elegance, but her prose is less self-conscious, more exuberant and playful, and Harry is made real to us.
I love Caroline Stevermer's characters, the early 20th century setting in Britain, the gutsy women, the magicians, her creativity, her charm, and her humor. Give us more, please!
If you love puzzles and mysteries this is a book for you! It's hard to like Faris, duchess of Galazon at first. When we meet her she's a petulant, dispirited and homesick child. The witch college at Greenlaw is cold. The lessons odd. The friends scarce. But slowly, surely she puzzles out her place in the world. Take the twisting journey with Faris and her companions. You'll be glad you did
Cute book, I enjoyed the plot. The typos in the kindle version are ridiculous. It was like it was never edited. I liked the characters a lot. There were a few aspects to the plot that I didn't quite understand and that weren't really explained. Never quite understood how they learned magic without using magic. It was strange. All in all, it was good book. I'm reading the second book now.
I enjoyed this book more than I expected to.

What it does not have is fast racy plots, major twists, crazy action.

What it does have is a sense of danger and wonder, interesting people, places that seemed real with the overlay of magic.

I enjoyed the characters and the setting. I secretly wished the love interest would be a little more charismatic, the women in the story more than make up for it in their interesting stories and their introduction to magic. The wicked uncle was a lot of fun too.

Recommended for a lazy leisurely read.
_A College of Magics_ has common themes and characters for a YA novel. Although the main characters are college students, I'd say the target audience is high school students, or possibly junior high. Faris Nallaneen, underage Duchess of Glazon and student at Greenlaw College, is the character readers are supposed to identify with. She's too tall, awkward, lacking in social graces, and only a so-so student. The movement of the book is that Faris eventually finds her place in the world as an adult, and (since this is a fantasy novel) discovers she has great magic powers previously unknown to her. Faris also overcomes her rival (and distant relative) Menary Paganell. In a nonfantasy Menary would be the head cheerleader-shallow, childish, vain, totally self-centered, and sexually aggressive. Jane Brailsford is another student more successful than Faris-sensible, self-confident, cool-headed, and completely knowledgeable about worldly matters like clothes. However, Jane befriends and educates Faris.

Faris begins the book in considerable conflict with her Uncle Brinker, Regent of Glazon. Faris suspects Brinker doesn't want to vacate the throne on her majority. After considerable confusion and drama, Faris learns the common YA lesson that relatives aren't as evil as teenagers think. True, Brinker is dishonest and intentionally irritating-but their relationship is resolved after a fashion. On a more cosmic scale, Faris is assigned to use her magic powers to heal something vague called "the rift" in the city of Avaris, capital of the Pagenells' kingdom. This is closely paralleled by healing rifts in political and family relationships-the Nallaneens and Pagenells quarreled over sovereignty issues in a previous generation.

The book's extreme wholesomeness is also very YA. There is no sex more intimate than a kiss (and only a couple of kisses). (Admittedly the book is set in an alternate Edwardian world, and Edwardian noblewomen weren't supposed to have premarital sex.) The value of responsibility is often stressed. Faris is even held up by a highwayman who turns out to be a former childhood playmate. This gives the author the opportunity of explaining that a ruler who imposes taxes that subjects can't possibly pay, drives them to crime.

In the end conditions are set up for Faris to finally marry the man she loves-and she doesn't. No believable reason is given. I suspect the author wanted to keep her options open for a sequel about Faris . (_Scholar of Magics_ is not it, the connections are only peripheral.)
Don't let the title fool you! A College of Magics is far more than a school story. It is a very deep, satisfying plot with many surprises. I was enthralled from beginning to end.

Stevermer's writing is deliberate and stately and suits the subject matter perfectly. Her alternate universe, an imaginary European nation in the 1910's in a world where magic is not uncommon, is real and believable. Her characters, Faris and Jane especially, are well fleshed and engaging.

On the whole, this is one of the best novels I've read this year and I am delighted I stumbled across it!