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Spellwright

di Blake Charlton

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Serie: Spellwright Trilogy (Book 1)

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"Nicodemus Weal has trained at the wizardly stronghold of Starhaven since he was a boy. His mentor, the famous wizard Agwu Shannon, taught him how to cast spells made from luminescent magical runes, how to peel written words off a page and make them physically real, how to protect himself with defensive paragraphs, and how to thrust sharply worded sentences at an enemy. Initially, Nicodemus showed great promise. Able to forge magical runes with great speed, he was once thought to be the Halcyon--a powerful spellwright prophesied to prevent the apocalypse known as the Disjunction. There was only one problem: Nicodemus couldn't spell. Every time he touched a magical text, he unintentionally corrupted it, turning a useful spell into a dangerous, potentially deadly misspell. Even now, at twenty-five, Nicodemus's problem remains so bad that he is allowed to use his magic only for janitorial tasks. While his peers advance as wizards, he is still an apprentice, living with other disabled spellwrights and reading knightly romances that fuel his dreams of escape and adventure. When a powerful wizard is murdered with a misspell, Nicodemus and Shannon both are suspected. Worse, Nicodemus dreams of a foreign city under attack from an ancient, godlike spell...and wakes to find Starhaven abuzz with news of that city's actual destruction. A second nightmare makes Nicodemus begin to question his own sanity. When there are more mysterious deaths, the authorities hunt him as a murderer. Tormented and desperate, Nicodemus has no choice but to flee his pursuers so that he can discover the truth about the murders, the nature of magic...and himself."--Dust cover flap.… (altro)
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Nicodemus Kras is een magiërsleerling met grote talenten. Hij woont dan ook niet voor niets in Sterrenstee: dé universiteitsstad voor magiërs. Hij heeft echter een groot probleem: hij kan niet spellen. In een wereld waar de magie bestaat uit het geschreven woord, is dat een grote handicap. Anders kan er van alles misgaan met je spreuk. Door zijn handicap is het voor hem onmogelijk om ooit een groots magiër te worden. Assistent van magister Agwu Shannon is alles wat er voor hem inzit. Toch zijn er aanwijzingen die er op wijzen dat hij het lot van de wereld in zijn handen houdt. Zijn leven en dat van anderen loopt groot gevaar, zeker als hij ook nog verdacht wordt van moord.

Blake Charlton is een schrijver met dyslexie. Als je deze wetenschap in je hoofd hebt, dan is De Taal der Spreuken een prachtige allegorie van zijn leven. Maar ook zonder deze wetenschap is het een lekker verhaal met een goed doordacht magiesysteem en heerlijke wezens. De magie zit overal in dit boek en geeft het verhaal echt een meerwaarde. De plot is rechttoe rechtaan: een eenvoudige jongen is voorbestemd voor grootste daden, die de wereld zullen veranderen. De uitwerking van dat plot is waar het om draait. En die uitwerking is zeer genietbaar. Hier en daar zijn de gebeurtenissen wat onlogisch, maar qua karakters zit het wel goed. Nicodemus is erg geloofwaardig en zijn vrienden zijn leuke types. Magister Agwu Shannon is aan het begin van het verhaal een soort professor Perkamentus, maar ontwikkelt zich toch iets anders. Een aantal karakters blijken uiteindelijk niet te zijn wat je in het begin van hen dacht. Een goed debuut dat smaakt naar meer. En gelukkig komt er een vervolg.
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  weaver-of-dreams | Aug 1, 2023 |
Excellent read. Fast paced, enjoyable. ( )
  fuzzipueo | Apr 24, 2022 |
1.5 stars. Very disappointing.

Given the blurb, I expected this would be a story about language, with a good deal of language/linguistic play. But it's not: it's a story about magic, with language treated as the magical stuff that gets thrown around. The language elements are very superficial.

Adding insult to injury was a particularly awful misuse of language. One of the characters periodically has fits or convulsions when her god takes her over. Naturally these happen at the most inconvenient times. She sometimes has some symptomatic warning that one of these is about to occur. At two such moments, she exclaims that she is "having an aura."

No. I'm sorry, but no. You do not "have" (as in undergo) an aura. You "have" a convulsion, or you "see" an aura, or you "have" (as in possess) an aura that other people see. This is just wrong.


There were some interesting ideas, so I do hope the author keeps at it; but overall I felt this was not ready for prime time. I have no interest in the sequel. ( )
  VictoriaGaile | Oct 16, 2021 |
Spellwright is the introductory novel of Nicodemus, a young aspiring wizard who has been branded a cacographer because of his disability. Simply put, he has magical dyslexia - in a world where spells are visible as strings of floating, physical text, a mere touch by Nicodemus can cause a spell to be misspelled, gaining new meaning and often as not warping it from simple to potentially dangerous.

As with many fantasy novels, there is a prophesy, and depending on interpretation Nicodemus could be a savior - or the equivalent of the antichrist.

I have to confess, I've wanted to read this book since it came out a few years ago, and anticipation breeds its own expectations that reality can rarely match. As is oft said, I wish Goodreads would let us use 1/2 stars. Charlton's book is right on the cusp between 3 and 4 stars, but ultimately I couldn't round up.

The cons, for me, were twofold. First, mechanically, I found the text to be agonizing to follow in some places. It is almost worst that this is an inconsistant problem, because the rest of the time you can get a sense of Charlton's emerging voice. Future books will not suffer this problem, and you can tell. Charlton can tell a story, but that fact is buried in this first novel, and only shining on occasion.

Secondly, and perhaps this is another writing advancement that will come in the future, there are far too many info dumps. In fact, this book is an amazing example of show, don't tell. There are so many cases where if Blake had stepped back and given pause, he could have demonstrated his point, leaving the reader to "discover" the truth on their own (and therefore feel both a minor sense of accomplishment, as well as feel more involved in the story).

I read the book in five days, with a real life interrupting. In my world, that means the book was a quick read, so caveat lector. ( )
  kodermike | Jul 31, 2020 |
A magnificently intricate and innovative magical system underpinning a world that... well, honestly, we don't see much of it at all since we never leave the bounds of the magical system. This book started really strongly, with fascinating magic used by interesting and sympathetic characters in complicated situations that they never bollocksed up themselves. All good things. However, towards the late-middle, it started to get so enmeshed in its own systems that the only way forward was info-dumps, and conversations of the "Why can't I just do X?" / "Because Z." variety, which rather takes the shine off things. It dribbled to an end, rather than going out with a portentious bang, which is unfortunate in a first-in-a-series book.

Good. Not great. ( )
  cupiscent | Aug 3, 2019 |
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Nome dell'autoreRuoloTipo di autoreOpera?Stato
Blake Charltonautore primariotutte le edizionicalcolato
Beyit, KeremImmagine di copertinaautore secondarioalcune edizioniconfermato
Lockwood, ToddImmagine di copertinaautore secondarioalcune edizioniconfermato

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"Nicodemus Weal has trained at the wizardly stronghold of Starhaven since he was a boy. His mentor, the famous wizard Agwu Shannon, taught him how to cast spells made from luminescent magical runes, how to peel written words off a page and make them physically real, how to protect himself with defensive paragraphs, and how to thrust sharply worded sentences at an enemy. Initially, Nicodemus showed great promise. Able to forge magical runes with great speed, he was once thought to be the Halcyon--a powerful spellwright prophesied to prevent the apocalypse known as the Disjunction. There was only one problem: Nicodemus couldn't spell. Every time he touched a magical text, he unintentionally corrupted it, turning a useful spell into a dangerous, potentially deadly misspell. Even now, at twenty-five, Nicodemus's problem remains so bad that he is allowed to use his magic only for janitorial tasks. While his peers advance as wizards, he is still an apprentice, living with other disabled spellwrights and reading knightly romances that fuel his dreams of escape and adventure. When a powerful wizard is murdered with a misspell, Nicodemus and Shannon both are suspected. Worse, Nicodemus dreams of a foreign city under attack from an ancient, godlike spell...and wakes to find Starhaven abuzz with news of that city's actual destruction. A second nightmare makes Nicodemus begin to question his own sanity. When there are more mysterious deaths, the authorities hunt him as a murderer. Tormented and desperate, Nicodemus has no choice but to flee his pursuers so that he can discover the truth about the murders, the nature of magic...and himself."--Dust cover flap.

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