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"Job-hunting when someone is a middle aged woman with a young son isn't easy. Frankly it's depressing. Ruth Watson answers an odd advertisement and finds herself taking on a role she could never have imagined in her wildest dreams – saving not just the universe but the multiverse.
Pitched headlong into a parallel world, she reluctantly takes on the mantle of Mage Prime and in the process puts her son, her new friends and herself in danger. At the same time she discovers she isn't too old to fall for the handsomest man around.
The world of Lantira is on the second parallel of the Transetic divergence in what is known as the multiverse – by nearly everyone except people living on Earth! It is the home world of the magically talented ‘Guardians' who have the duty of maintaining balance between positive and negative forces throughout the multiverse. Lantira is one of the magical worlds where the physical laws of Earth don't apply - machines and electronics won't work but magic does.
The Guardians are facing the irreversible tipping of that balance because of the powerful but negative Selador Sorceresses. These are a group of women from a world that was disenfranchised of it's magic centuries ago and who have now discovered how steal the magical power from the talented Guardians, destroying them in the process. If the shift in the balance isn't reversed, the multiverse, and all the infinite worlds in it, including our own Earth, will be destroyed.
Stranded on Lantira, Ruth at first refuses the role but when she and the Guardians discover that, in order to stop her becoming the Mage Prime, the Selador Sorceresses have kidnapped her son, Will, she realises that she has no choice but to learn her new trade and help the Guardians.
Her adventures expose her to other worlds and the perils of new relationships but also to possibilities she could never have imagined. In time she and the Guardians overcome the Sorceresses during a mighty magical battle but in doing so her son is desperately injured."
Gabrielle Staples, Resident Scholar
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Composition of Book
Descript. of chases or violence - 10%
planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 10%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 40%
Descript. of society, phenomena (tech), places - 40%
Tone of book
- suspenseful (sophisticated fear)
FANTASY or SCIENCE FICTION?
- part earth & part fantasy world
Mental/magical powers focus
Yes
magical powers:
- clash between evenly matched magical power(s) (fantasy)
Is this an adult or child's book?
- Adult or Young Adult Book
Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Profession/status:
- mage/magician
Age:
- 40's-50's
Has magical/special powers?
Yes
Magical/mental powers of main character:
- can cast many different spells
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Main Adversary
Identity:
- magical being
Age:
- long-lived adults
Profession/status:
- mage/magician
Has magical powers?
Yes
Eccentric:
Yes
- obsessed
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- a moderate amount
How sensitive is this character?
- mean, arrogant
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Setting
A substantial portion of this book takes place on a non-Earth planetary body:
- humans in a primitive/fantasy society
Planet outside solar system?
Yes
Style
Person?
- mostly 3rd
Accounts of torture and death?
- generic/vague references to death/punishment
Sex in book?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- descript of kissing
- descript of touching personal anatomy
- actual description of sex
- description of breasts
How much dialogue?
- roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
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