The Zero Blessing The Zero Enigma Book 1 edition by Christopher Nuttall Brad Fraunfelter Children eBooks
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Caitlyn Aguirre should have been a magician. Her family certainly expected her to be a magician. But by the time she reached her twelfth birthday, Caitlyn hadn't even managed to cast a single spell! In desperation, her parents send her - and her magical sisters - to Jude’s Sorcerous Academy, her last best chance to discover her powers.
But as she struggles to survive her classes without a single spell to her name, Caitlyn starts to uncover an ancient mystery that may prove the key to her true powers ...
... If she lives long enough to find it.
The Zero Blessing The Zero Enigma Book 1 edition by Christopher Nuttall Brad Fraunfelter Children eBooks
In a world where everyone has at least some magic, Caitlyn Aguirre has none. Her parents insist on sending her to an elite school of magic - and have the prestige to get her accepted. Her situation is a bit worse than that of a tone-deaf student sent to a school of music. At least pranks aimed at the music student can't turn her into a frog.The writing is of moderate quality. I enjoyed this book - and plan to get the sequel, if there is one - but it felt as if the author dashed it off carelessly. The world in which the story is embedded is generic-medievaloid: There are kings and there are peasants, non-magical technology is implied to be pre-modern, and the existence of magic seems to have remarkably-little effect. The magic itself - aside from the central plot device - is not fleshed out, but it appears to have been pinched almost-wholesale from the author's "Schooled in Magic" series. The boarding-school-bully subplot also feels heavily-reused. (The elite magic school does not appear to screen students for magical ability, academic background, or even literacy. Since the protagonist and a major secondary character are in danger of failing for lack of prerequisites, this is a heavy-handed plot device.)
The protagonist is engaging and sympathetic. The writing is well-crafted, and I stayed up later than I'd planned to finish reading.
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The Zero Blessing The Zero Enigma Book 1 edition by Christopher Nuttall Brad Fraunfelter Children eBooks Reviews
Another fascinating book by Chris Nuttall. The premise is a clever reversal of the usual magic school tropes and the protagonist feels real as well as engendering a strong sense of empathy for the trials she goes through. This is an extremely entertaining and satisfying book although there is a surfeit of standard tropes - the powerful bully - the troublesome siblings - the worshiping downtrodden friend etc etc. and the world building is not as detailed or original as some of his other works, especially those that are the beginnings of long series. Still those caveats aside it is a must read for Nuttall fans and magic fans in general especially as it is at his usual relatively cheap price, at least for the ebook.
This isn't a book of great depth. However. The characters are very engaging and the world and plot interesting and I stayed up on a work night to read the whole thing because I really wanted to know what was going to happen. While I say it's not of great depth, the main character and others do change during the course of it, they just don't spend a lot of time pondering it and I think the book is better for it. This is action oriented, and by that I don't mean car chases, but rather the characters spend a lot of time acting and reacting and how they do this shows how they grow.
The world building is basically restricted to what you learn from scenes at the boarding school, and the heroine's interaction with her family. What's there is interesting, but I'd like to know more.
The idea of a zero becoming a 100 is what many of us daydreamed about when we were 12 too, so I think a lot of kids would enjoy this (there is nothing whatsoever about this book that would make me call it inappropriate for teens and tweens). The book does deal heavily with bullying, and the characters aren't exactly mature because they're 12. But the heroine does mature throughout the book, and she makes mistakes that she and those around end up paying for so she learns from those.
I don't think the book requires a sequel, but I'd read one if the author wrote it. Since he doesn't have one, instead I went out and bought 5 other books by him. Reading this was a really fun experience, and I'm looking forward to other books from him.
The story was entertaining for my grandson, and I must admit it also kept me looking forward to reading it. However, I got a bit tired of the malice shown by people who should have loved one another. Heck, even students who didn't know one another were hateful and spiteful. The premise was good, but overall, the story contained an extreme amount of bullying! I can't even say that the leaders, instructors, or administrators were fair or even honest. It isn't a book that teaches much in the way of values to be honest. It was just a magic school filled with mean spirited students.
This book and world is the author's second or third (depending on how you classify "bookworm") dip into the trope of Magical Boarding Schools. It's nice to see an author being willing to start a new series to try a different view instead of trying to smash the concept into his existing series, especially when the author is as good at creating interesting characters as Chris Nuttall is.
In this case the twist is that almost everyone in the world has some magical ability though it varies a lot in level, but the heroine has none at all. This of course means she's going to struggle in any school environment where the average child can turn anyone unprotected into a frog (or slug or...). It doesn't help that she's one of the three children of a very important and powerful wizarding family and that her sisters are "normal". How she manages to survive and thrive using her wits and ability to study is the basis of the story.
There's plenty of drama and interest, and Nuttall does an excellent job of showing how different things look to a poor outsider compared to a child of privilege such as the heroine.
If I have one criticism of this book it is that the trick that allows her to final triumph is perhaps too well signalled in advance and it may lead to some issues in the sequels because I'm not sure how she can survive the future. But I'll be happy to buy the books and find out!
In a world where everyone has at least some magic, Caitlyn Aguirre has none. Her parents insist on sending her to an elite school of magic - and have the prestige to get her accepted. Her situation is a bit worse than that of a tone-deaf student sent to a school of music. At least pranks aimed at the music student can't turn her into a frog.
The writing is of moderate quality. I enjoyed this book - and plan to get the sequel, if there is one - but it felt as if the author dashed it off carelessly. The world in which the story is embedded is generic-medievaloid There are kings and there are peasants, non-magical technology is implied to be pre-modern, and the existence of magic seems to have remarkably-little effect. The magic itself - aside from the central plot device - is not fleshed out, but it appears to have been pinched almost-wholesale from the author's "Schooled in Magic" series. The boarding-school-bully subplot also feels heavily-reused. (The elite magic school does not appear to screen students for magical ability, academic background, or even literacy. Since the protagonist and a major secondary character are in danger of failing for lack of prerequisites, this is a heavy-handed plot device.)
The protagonist is engaging and sympathetic. The writing is well-crafted, and I stayed up later than I'd planned to finish reading.
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