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    A Scholar of Magics

    By Caroline Stevermer

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    Glasscastle. University of dreaming towers and distant bells, pompous dons and disputatious undergraduates, exquisite architecture and grass that can choke you to death if you walk on it without the proper escort. On the surface, it is one of the most beautiful and peaceful places in England. But underneath, its magic is ancient and dangerous.

    Samuel Lambert, sharpshooter, adventurer, late of the Wyoming plains and Kiowa Bob's Wild West Show, has been invited to Glasscastle to contribute his phemomenally accurate shooting eye to the top secret Agincourt Project. The only dangers he expects to face are British snobbery, heavy dinners, and tea with the Provost's pretty wife. But when the Provost's stylish sister Jane comes to town, things get much more exciting.

    This sparkling sequel to A College of Magics is a whirlwind of secret weapons, motor cars, mysterious assaults and abductions, thugs in bowler hats, and a mild-mannered don who is heir to a magical power greater than all Glasscastle. The resulting tale is as funny as a Gilbert and Sullivan Victorian romp, with the wit and suspense of a Dorothy Sayers mystery and a dash of John Wayne thrown in for good measure.



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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Publishers
    Release dateMar 7, 2006
    ISBN9781466819467
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    A Scholar of Magics
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    Caroline Stevermer

    Caroline Stevermer (b. 1955) is best known for her historical fantasy novels. She published her first book, The Alchemist, in 1981, and soon began collaborating with fellow Minnesotan Patricia C. Wrede to create a magical version of Regency England. They published the epistolary novel Sorcery and Cecelia in 1988, and returned to the series with The Grand Tour (2004) and The Mislaid Magician (2006). Stevermer’s other novels include The Duke and the Veil, The Serpent’s Egg, A College of Magics, A Scholar of Magics, River Rats, Magic Below Stairs, and her most recent, The Glass Magician.

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    • 5/5
      This book might well have been titled “Pride and Prejudice Goes to Hogwarts”. Set in Edwardian England, the action takes place mostly at Glasscastle University, a college of magic. Samuel Lambert, American lately of a Wild West show, is there temporarily as they do tests of accuracy with various guns as they develop a new weapon. Jane Brailsford (excuse me, *Miss* Jane Brailsford), graduate of Greenlaw university in France (which, gasp, is a magical school for women) is there, ostensibly visiting her brother, Robert, who works at the University. But Jane has ulterior motives, as do almost everyone else in the story. Things get complicated rapidly, as assailants walk unseen past guards, people are kidnapped right and left, a don of the university turns out to have the potential of vast magical power- and is resisting taking that power, and the universe has a rift in it. Things move along at a brisk pace, and the tale is told with humor. This is a sequel tale (A College of Magics is the first volume) and it’s set to spin off more. I look forward to them.
    • 3/5
      Although this is the sequel to A College of Magics, I don’t think you necessarily need to read them in order. However, I would advise it so that you have some of the concepts of the world explained in depth before you hit A Scholar of Magics.The draw of A Scholar of Magics is certainly the characters. The cast is different from the first book (except for Jane, who’s allowed to take center stage), but all of the characters are fun, likable, and enjoyable to spend time with. Jane continues to be wonderful, and Lambert is a nice addition. He provides the outsider’s perspective to magic and Glasscastle.Where A Scholar of Magic faltered was the plot. I found it predictable and not at all suspenseful. When the Big Bad was revealed, the protagonists were all shocked, but I’d guessed it the first time they’d met him. Really, shouldn’t they have at least had some questions regarding him? If they drew a Venn Diagram and looked at the overlap, he’d be smack dab in the center.While there’s not a whole lot of depth to it, sometimes it’s nice to relax with an enjoyable book like A Scholar of Magics. I’d recommend it for anyone looking for a lighter read.Originally posted at The Illustrated Page.
    • 4/5
      It was good but it didn’t capture me the way the first book–A College of Magics–did. This book takes us, and Jane, to Glasscastle, where Jane naturally gets involved in something big. It was a fun book, with banter and danger and Jane being Jane and I very much enjoyed it. I wasn’t prepared to have a male character take center stage but I liked Samuel, I liked seeing Jane, Glasscastle, and England through his American “cowboy” eyes.
    • 3/5
      This was a tasty custard of a book. Charming and light and sweet, if perhaps a little bland. I wish I remembered more from College of Magics, but I did remember Jane. It's a mystery and the romance is very restrained.
    • 4/5
      kept me guessing tell the end. every time I thought I knew the bad guy, he did something that made me think nope its a red heron, but which is the real fish? read to find out
    • 3/5
      A good deal of to-ing and fro-ing and the pacing is rather even with bouts of action followed by slow wind downs and there is a fair amount of subverting expectations, but then not. Well, on my second read I remembered absolutely nothing, but am not surprised because while the characters were fairly good and the setting and issues interesting, the hooks were just not very sharp.
    • 4/5
      I’ve been enjoying Stevermer’s Kate and Cecy books, which she wrote with Patricia C. Wrede, for several years. These two are quite similar in the mix of magic and a world that’s mostly like ours at an earlier time period. I have to say that, while I liked the characters and the story, the world building seemed a little odd to me. I felt very disoriented in the first book because the main character is from a country that doesn’t exist in our world but does in this world and then England showed up and I was confused. I was also confused as to their current location and the time period. But the second book retroactively cleared that all up: early 1900s, the first book is set in France, their world is quite like ours. I did wonder though, if things are different enough to have entire countries that don’t exist in our world, would Taft really be the president? I seem to remember one alternate-reality story I read where Adlai Stevenson got elected. It wasn’t a major plot point but it helped to point out that things were different there. Anyway, if you ignore the world-building and focus on the characters, these are fun stories which reminded me at times of Dorothy Sayers (especially the second).

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      A reread. I expected to enjoy it a lot, as I did the first time I read it. Apparently, though, my opinions have switched as this time I liked A College of Magics considerably more! [Nov. 2011]
    • 3/5
      Sequel to 'A College of Magics'; fantasy; not bad
    • 5/5
      This book might well have been titled “Pride and Prejudice Goes to Hogwarts”. Set in Edwardian England, the action takes place mostly at Glasscastle University, a college of magic. Samuel Lambert, American lately of a Wild West show, is there temporarily as they do tests of accuracy with various guns as they develop a new weapon. Jane Brailsford (excuse me, *Miss* Jane Brailsford), graduate of Greenlaw university in France (which, gasp, is a magical school for women) is there, ostensibly visiting her brother, Robert, who works at the University. But Jane has ulterior motives, as do almost everyone else in the story. Things get complicated rapidly, as assailants walk unseen past guards, people are kidnapped right and left, a don of the university turns out to have the potential of vast magical power- and is resisting taking that power, and the universe has a rift in it. Things move along at a brisk pace, and the tale is told with humor. This is a sequel tale (A College of Magics is the first volume) and it’s set to spin off more. I look forward to them.
    • 4/5
      I liked this one better than the first, A College of Magics. I liked the main character, Samuel Lambert, more than Farris in the first book. Really the two books are hardly related, except that they are both set in the same alternate world and they are faintly connected by both featuring Jane, a witch of Greenlaw who gets involved in this story by trying to help her friend Farris, the warden of the north, get in touch with the new warden of the east. Honestly, the whole warden stuff was kind of confusing and not well explained at all. But I still liked Lambert and his story, so I'm giving it 4/5 stars.
    • 4/5
      The sequel to "A College of Magics", this book follows Jane Brailsford back to England on a visit to her brother, and where College was full of European fairy-tale beauty and thorny castles, this is a very England novel, and the wild magic that turns up (eventually) in the very Oxonian Glasscastle University is a very English sort of wild magic.The book starts very slow, and very confusing, and it's rather difficult to slog through the first few chapters, but one Jane shows up, explains what's going on, and starts waving her utterly fabulous hats around, it goes brilliantly and never stops (much like Jane's driving.) Lambert, the POV character, and American out of water, is, as Jane would say, and absolute *dear*, Nicolas Fell is a wonderful curmudgeon, and Jane's relations are full of surprises.
    • 4/5
      Oh, this book was just as much fun as the first book in the series "A College of Magics". There is heaps of satisfying silliness. I was amused by the way the male side of magic, represented by the Glasscastle University, was based on the idea of harmony - a property usually stereotypically given to women's magic.