Libriomancer (Magic Ex Libris Book 1)

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A number of sections made me smile, especially Issac's Babel fish, and the Latin classifications for vampires--their informant is a hybrid Sanguinarius Stokerus. Isaac explicitly points out that this isn't likely to work - Libriomancy requires the readers to believe in what they're reading, and forcing people to read a book won't inspire that belief. A shield that protects against projectile weapons but lets slow moving items, like a sword, through? But like the various species of vampires, they may be living in our world but they need to follow the rules set out in the books they came from. A film version would be a 12, or 15 certificate at most – nothing to upset an open-minded Torchwood viewer.

As a result, every chapter you'll get an info dump, Isaac guiding and explaining the nuts and bolts behind the Libriomancy magic system -- what you can do and what you can't do.

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. Any given libriomancer has access to an arsenal consisting of the entire recorded imagination of mankind.

Isaac barely escapes, mostly with the help of Lena, a motorcycle-riding dryad who has lost her tree.Lena was a fascinating character, but sadly one I can’t say much about without spoiling some of the side-plotting. Si no le pongo las 5 estrellas (las que le puso Patrick Rothfuss, ni más ni menos) es porque a veces la prosa era algo confusa, sobre todo en las escenas de acción, pero quizá es solo la traducción. Me terminó gustando mucho, no se parece a NADA que haya leído antes (aunque sí a una historieta de Los Simpsons, creo, o de Futurama jaja No me acuerdo de cuál de las dos, pero sí que el prota sacaba sus poderes de otras historietas). It has many similarities with the Dresden Files except this magician is a librarian and all his magic is drawn from books. However, as the antithesis of feminism, she is required by nature to have a lover, whose needs and interests then help define her.

Not every book has to be so convoluted that you have to read most of the series to have a clue as to what is going on. The hero has a number of faults, making a number of questionable decisions, tending to martyristic actions and generally ruthlessly using the non-humans (such as planting a bomb on a vampire). Also I think that there is enough evidence from the author to suggest that this story will become more and more layered as the series develops and I will come back and reread this book and think ahah! In the first few chapters alone, we have Twilight vampires, Star Trek guns, a Babel fish, the size-changing potions from Alice in Wonderland and a lot more. Soon Lena and Isaac are trying to track down whatever it is that has been killing both Libriomancers and vampires — a trail that may lead right to Gutenberg himself.When Isaac Vainio helped to reveal magic to the world, he dreamed of a utopian future, a new millennium of magical prosperity. It’s all good fun, with strong female characters, some thoughtful moments about destiny – and an awful lot of books. To me, Hines took a marvelous concept, started to execute it well, and mucked it up by dabbling in romance. Butt-kicking librarians, pyrotechnic spiders, and vampires that don’t suck ― Jim Hines serves up an incendiary and fun new urban fantasy! What makes Isaac so powerful in his imagination and belief, both of which are aided by that aforementioned innocence.

Hines doesn't seem to either since before any such relationship can take place he adds a new wrinkle having the original owner be not dead after all, leaving our nymph with divided loyalties which she experiences as the most freedom she's ever had in her whole life. Lena was brought forth from a book – a book that was part of a series of books famed for its portrayal of sexual servitude. Rules like Libriomancers can only pull out smaller objects, no bigger than the size of the open book which is the magical "window" to the world of the book. 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. He will be hunted by enemies and former allies alike, and it will take all his knowledge and resourcefulness to survive as magical war threatens to spread across the globe.It’s a war that will soon envelop the world, and the key to victory may lie with Isaac himself, as he struggles to incorporate everything he’s learned into a new, more powerful form of libriomancy. This is definitely a pulpy book that can't be taken too seriously, but I found it to be really enjoyable. 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. she's also majorly kick-ass and saves Isaac on more than one occasion, one time even shielding his body with hers. And I don't want to pile on the poor narrator too much, because reading out loud is going to inevitably include some fuckups, and the producer (an Audible employee, whose name appears on many of the books I have enjoyed) carries a healthy share of the blame as well.