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The Paper Magician

  • 2014 first published
  • 236 pages
  • ★ 3.4 (14 ratings)
  • 8 editions

Charlie N. Holmberg's The Paper Magician (2014) is a romantasy and stage-magic fiction novel. Readers will find themes of magic, Female Lead, Teacher and Student.

Open Library readers give it an average of 3.4 out of 5 from 14 ratings, and 43 more have it on their want-to-read list. It has been published in 8 editions across 3 languages.

It runs to roughly 236 pages — 4–5 hours of reading at an average pace.

About The Paper Magician

Ceony Twill arrives at the cottage of Magician Emery Thane with a broken heart. Having graduated at the top of her class from the Tagis Praff School for the Magically Inclined, Ceony is assigned an apprenticeship in paper magic despite her dreams of bespelling metal. And once she's bonded to paper, that will be her only magic…forever. Yet the spells Ceony learns under the strange yet kind Thane turn out to be more marvelous than she could have ever imagined—animating paper creatures, bringing stories to life via ghostly images, even reading fortunes. But as she discovers these wonders, Ceony also learns of the extraordinary dangers of forbidden magic. An Excisioner—a practitioner of dark, flesh magic—invades the cottage and rips Thane's heart from his chest. To save her teacher's life, Ceony must face the evil magician and embark on an unbelievable adventure that will take her into the chambers of Thane's still-beating heart—and reveal the very soul of the man. From the imaginative mind of debut author Charlie N. Holmberg, The Paper Magician is an extraordinary adventure both dark and whimsical that will delight listeners of all ages.
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Themes, setting & tropes

Genres

Subjects

  • Romance
  • Magic
  • Female Lead
  • Teacher
  • Student
  • Magicians
  • Fantasy romance

Quick answers

Who wrote The Paper Magician?

The Paper Magician was written by Charlie N. Holmberg and first published in 2014.

What genre is The Paper Magician?

It is usually shelved as Romantasy and Magicians & Illusionists.

How long is The Paper Magician?

The median edition has 236 pages, about 4–5 hours of reading at 250 words per minute.

What books are similar to The Paper Magician?

Readers who like it often enjoy Bloodfever (Fever Series, Book 2), The Night Circus and Carry On.

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