Libriomancer (Magic Ex Libris Book 1)

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My fellow majgickq-disdainers: This is not the book we fear, it is a delightful expansion of a reality we all already know: Novels and tales are, in every important way, real and we can reach into them for what we love and need the most.

Hines manages to keep the story moving while squeezing in a powerful amount of exposition and backstory. Isaac barely escapes, mostly with the help of Lena, a motorcycle-riding dryad who has lost her tree. I'll admit a lot of it was too convoluted and outrageous for me (and this coming from a diehard fan of The Dresden Files series) but if action-packed and bombastic urban fantasy stories are your thing, this book might be worth checking out. But the more Isaac learns about Gutenberg and the Porters, the more he questions whether he’s fighting for the right cause.There Are No Therapists: The trope Played With in his particular case when we find out that Gutenburg has been having trouble getting in touch with his lately, so he hasn't been having as many sessions as one might like. What actually happens is that people scream fake on the internet and are too busy arguing to actually finish the book. Because it does have a fun premise: guy with the magical ability to pull objects from books into the real world tries to figure out why vampires are killing off magic users!

Having an author that so clearly loves books and has corporated literature into the story helps a lot more. The first thing the guy did with it was use The Bible, pull out the Holy Grail, make himself immortal with it and then lock the book's magic so that nobody else could do the same. That’s the kind of power that our protagonist, Isaac Vainio, has found and given up and found again. Broken Masquerade: The series shows the world before, during, and after the meltdown of the masquerade. Now, old enemies have revealed the Porters’ secrets, and an even greater threat lurks in the shadows.But when Gutenberg vanishes without a trace, Isaac finds himself pitted against everything from vampires to a sinister, nameless foe who is bent on revealing magic to the world at large. One reason why Isaac is so against the proposed RAMPART act was that one of the clauses explicitly stated that non-human magicals were not legally considered people under the law.