Sufficiently Advanced Magic

Another boy wonder goes to wizard school kind of book. I did not like Harry Potter, The Magicians and many others of this ilk.

But its not only the vast amount of wasted time describing the daily life of a college student, sprinkled with some fantasy elements just for color, that I find unbearable. The story and characters overall are weak, but it was the cliches that hit me the most. In particular, I stopped reading the moment one of the male students was asked by a teacher to challenge another student for combat class. He could pick anyone he wanted. He picked a small girl that looked very defenseless. She beated the crap out of him.

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