The Thinking Woman's Guide to Real Magic

by Emily Croy Barker

Book Overview

An imaginative story of a woman caught in an alternate world where she will need to learn the skills of magic to survive Nora Fischer s dissertation is stalled and her boyfriend is about to marry... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0143125672
• ISBN13: 9780143125679
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Length: 576 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.5" x 8.5"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

Found in the self help section...

I loved this book so much I immediately had to find the second book and have loaned it out to everyone I can. It builds to something you don't expect, and you can sense the layers that sometimes catch and hold Nora back. I loved the feeling of being immersed in the struggle Nora has and the quips are fantastic! Let this story and the writing suck you in. There is a bit of time when the story seems to drag, but it fully matches what the character is going through. I'm looking forward to rereading this series soon.

Love it

After a somewhat so-so start, the story picks up and it becomes difficult to tear yourself away from the book.

Don't do it

This sounded like a fun Narnia like fantasy, but it was not. Unless you are a 30+ year old women who has never been in a relationship of any kind, even a close friendship, with a man, you're not going to like this. The only magical thing about this book was the marketing team. I did not read the whole thing after over 100 pages of WTF, I skimmed the rest until close to the ending. I went to read some reviews which confirmed that the middle was as bad as I thought it would be, worse actually. The voice was really good, but it was kind of like listening to a pleasant sounding drunk telling you a story that makes no sense to anyone but them. O.K. I'll stop now.