By Charlie N. Holmberg
“Charlie is a colourful author with a good voice and nice international construction. I completely loved the Paper Magician.” —Brandon Sanderson, writer of Mistborn and The manner of Kings
Ceony Twill arrives on the cottage of Magician Emery Thane with a damaged middle. Having graduated on the best of her classification from the Tagis Praff institution for the Magically prone, Ceony is assigned an apprenticeship in paper magic regardless of her goals of bespelling steel. And as soon as she’s bonded to paper, that might be her basically magic…forever.
Yet the spells Ceony learns lower than the unusual but type Thane change into extra impressive than she can have ever imagined—animating paper creatures, bringing tales to existence through ghostly photographs, even examining fortunes. yet as she discovers those wonders, Ceony additionally learns of the intense risks of forbidden magic.
An Excisioner—a practitioner of darkish, flesh magic—invades the cottage and rips Thane’s middle from his chest. to save lots of her teacher’s lifestyles, Ceony needs to face the evil magician and embark on an improbable event that may take her into the chambers of Thane’s still-beating heart—and demonstrate the very soul of the man.
From the innovative brain of debut writer Charlie N. Holmberg, The Paper Magician is a rare event either darkish and eccentric that might satisfaction readers of all ages.
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What if he had handed on whereas she have been away? What if she have been too gradual? may possibly an lively middle revive an inanimate physique? His center fluttered weakly opposed to hers, having misplaced a lot of its lingering power seeing that she lifted it from the enchanted pool. yet she nonetheless had time. definitely she nonetheless had time. tales like this one weren’t intended to finish badly. Magicians Aviosky, Hughes, and Katter could have famous her absence by means of now, yet she discovered herself now not taking good care of no matter what repercussions they can provide her. She didn’t remorse her selection, no matter if her clumsy paper center didn’t pull Emery via this. She prayed her Folding had held up. The magicians had, no less than, left the enormous door in Emery’s roof open. The glider swooped up and landed gracefully, even with out her directing it. It knew its master’s condominium. Ceony pulled stiff hands from its handles, massaging them opposed to her hip to coax move again into the knuckles. Her head felt packed with clouds, yet now not within the dreamy feel. simply the empty one. The floorboards creaked lower than her ft. Her bag swung at her facet like a damaged pendulum from a derelict grandfather clock, and he or she felt as though she have been made from paper herself. She leaned at the stairwell wall as she descended all the way down to the second one ground, preserving Emery’s center to her breast, its small energy chain soaked purple. She had left her shoe wedged among the rocks of the island shore, now not eager to remain to any extent further than was once completely important. Her sore, socked foot muffled any other step. She handed Emery’s room, the door ajar, the mattress empty. they have to no longer have moved him. He used to be downstairs, nonetheless alive. looking ahead to her. They wouldn’t have buried him with out her. She hadn’t been long past that lengthy. Had she? prior the library, the bathroom, her bed room. She leaned at the wall as she took the steps to the 1st ground. Mg. Aviosky opened the door, 8 steps less than her. “Ceony Twill! ” she exclaimed with all of the anxiousness of a apprehensive mom, the sternness of an academy imperative, and the comfort of a farmer feeling spring’s first rain on his epidermis. Her eyes widened around as dinner chargers. Ceony should have been a sight to work out. Mg. Aviosky’s face paled and he or she begun up the stairs, yet Ceony’s phrases made her pause. “I’m now not hurt,” she acknowledged. and he or she wasn’t, not likely. The blood operating down her shirt wasn’t hers. She lightly pulled Emery’s center from underneath her collar. Mg. Aviosky pressed a hand to her mouth. “That isn’t . . . ,” she whispered via her arms. Ceony took the final 8 steps down, pushing prior Mg. Aviosky, who didn’t cease her. Ceony didn’t have the power for a controversy, no longer immediately. She observed no hint of Magicians Hughes and Katter. Her personal middle quickened on the sight of Emery, the true Emery, mendacity in his makeshift mattress at the eating room ground simply as she had left him. His dermis virtually held the pallor of demise. His lips have been nearly violet. His eyes have been nearly sunken. nearly, yet now not rather. Her paper middle nonetheless beat inside of his chest. Mg. Aviosky closed the stairway door and requested the query surfacing in Ceony’s personal brain.