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Magic comes with a price!!!

With that, time to throw the dice, Paul Tsabo an unassuming man, an everyday man, nothing to make him stand up in a crowd, and yet a married man, but soon to be divorced with a beautiful child named Aliyah Tsabo.....

They are the primary and secondary characters in this novel, in a universe where a person's obsession turns into magic or mancer as they call the person. So in this world you can become a bookmancer obsessed with books, and maybe be seen walking around with Tarzan, Conan and etc, or a pistolmancer with the ability to fire anyone, anywhere or maybe a pornomancer with great big.........ummmmm you know the picture, this universe should be the best anywhere in the multiverse of books(we should have a map of the whole fantasy universe, from Dragonlance's niche at the lefthandmost corner to Clive Barker's Imajica in the lowermost right hand corner), except with the magic comes a serious drawback called FLUX, that is this universe's way to balance what you do with your magic.....and it is always comes out negative, the bookmancer wants to travel with the aforementioned trio, FLUX comes in and those three starts fighting one another, killing a score of bystanders, the pistolmancer shoots an unbelievable shot to halt a sniper, and in doing so the recoil hits him in the head, accidentally breaking his nose and etc.......in short the larger the magic, the stronger the FLUX and it can kill, that is why the ‘mancers in this universe are abhorred!!

In comes the unassuming Paul Tsabo, with the wierdest obsession/mancy.......and well you have to read the story, as for world building, well same earth, different magic system........this sounds like karma........wonder if others will see it as it is........

Ok time to go.........in the end, what really drove me is the interaction between Paul and his daughter
the mancy and the hope of seeing how they portray an exhibitiomancer.......hihihihi.......

DNF at about one third of the way.

The idea of this is great. Once you get extremely obsessed with something, anything at all, you can basically bend the rules of the universe and do magic in connection with your topic. But it comes with a price; something bad will come to you to smooth out your karma.

The rest of it? Annoyingly quirky characters written in a prose that tries hard to be witty and ends up being kind of forced and nonsensical to me. It made me skim, jump through stuff, somehow it just didn't allow me to properly concentrate on the story. When characters talk about magic it's all just cool-sounding, vague sentences that don't work to me.

I'm not trying to be mean about it, nothing against the author or anything, but I don't feel this is for me.