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Remedial Magic (A Course in Magic, #1)
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Lilibet Bombshell's review
bookshelves: 2024-ng-arcs, advanced-reader-copies, book-series, fantasy, fantasy-series, lgbtq-fantasy, steamy-romance-spice-level-1
Feb 17, 2024
bookshelves: 2024-ng-arcs, advanced-reader-copies, book-series, fantasy, fantasy-series, lgbtq-fantasy, steamy-romance-spice-level-1
The Magicians meets One Last Stop is what the blurb tells us to expect in this book. Well, I know better than to expect much of blurbs, but can I just say that I haven't been this disappointed by the marketing for a book in a long time?
Remedial Magic isn’t just a subpar book–it’s a subpar book with poor plotting, average writing, creepy and unlikeable characters, an underexplored magic system, poor worldbuilding, and random spice scenes that are just plopped in like quotes in a bad college essay (that is to say, suddenly and with no warm up).
This book just doesn’t make sense to me. It started off well enough. It was witty, even engaging. Everything started to fall to pieces as soon as the “new students” started arriving in Crenshaw, in my opinion. Then it all started unraveling quickly and never regained any ground. I don’t even know why I finished the book, save that I hoped at some point it might redeem itself, considering this is a series and there are more books after this.
I think I’ll be stopping here, though. I don’t need to know more.
I was provided a copy of this title by NetGalley and the author. All opinions, thoughts, views, and ideas expressed herein are mine and mine alone. As this review has a rating of three stars or less it will only appear on review sites and not on social media. Thank you.
File Under: Book Series/Fantasy/Fantasy Series/LGBTQ Fantasy/Spice Level 1
Remedial Magic isn’t just a subpar book–it’s a subpar book with poor plotting, average writing, creepy and unlikeable characters, an underexplored magic system, poor worldbuilding, and random spice scenes that are just plopped in like quotes in a bad college essay (that is to say, suddenly and with no warm up).
This book just doesn’t make sense to me. It started off well enough. It was witty, even engaging. Everything started to fall to pieces as soon as the “new students” started arriving in Crenshaw, in my opinion. Then it all started unraveling quickly and never regained any ground. I don’t even know why I finished the book, save that I hoped at some point it might redeem itself, considering this is a series and there are more books after this.
I think I’ll be stopping here, though. I don’t need to know more.
I was provided a copy of this title by NetGalley and the author. All opinions, thoughts, views, and ideas expressed herein are mine and mine alone. As this review has a rating of three stars or less it will only appear on review sites and not on social media. Thank you.
File Under: Book Series/Fantasy/Fantasy Series/LGBTQ Fantasy/Spice Level 1
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Reading Progress
October 20, 2023
– Shelved
October 20, 2023
– Shelved as:
to-read
February 17, 2024
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Started Reading
February 17, 2024
– Shelved as:
2024-ng-arcs
February 17, 2024
– Shelved as:
advanced-reader-copies
February 17, 2024
– Shelved as:
book-series
February 17, 2024
– Shelved as:
fantasy
February 17, 2024
– Shelved as:
fantasy-series
February 17, 2024
– Shelved as:
lgbtq-fantasy
February 17, 2024
– Shelved as:
steamy-romance-spice-level-1
February 17, 2024
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Finished Reading