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The Zero Blessing The Zero Enigma Book 1 edition by Christopher Nuttall Brad Fraunfelter Children eBooks

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The Zero Blessing The Zero Enigma Book 1 edition by Christopher Nuttall Brad Fraunfelter Children eBooks

In a world where everyone has at least some magic, Caitlyn Aguirre has none. Her parents insist on sending her to an elite school of magic - and have the prestige to get her accepted. Her situation is a bit worse than that of a tone-deaf student sent to a school of music. At least pranks aimed at the music student can't turn her into a frog.

The writing is of moderate quality. I enjoyed this book - and plan to get the sequel, if there is one - but it felt as if the author dashed it off carelessly. The world in which the story is embedded is generic-medievaloid: There are kings and there are peasants, non-magical technology is implied to be pre-modern, and the existence of magic seems to have remarkably-little effect. The magic itself - aside from the central plot device - is not fleshed out, but it appears to have been pinched almost-wholesale from the author's "Schooled in Magic" series. The boarding-school-bully subplot also feels heavily-reused. (The elite magic school does not appear to screen students for magical ability, academic background, or even literacy. Since the protagonist and a major secondary character are in danger of failing for lack of prerequisites, this is a heavy-handed plot device.)

The protagonist is engaging and sympathetic. The writing is well-crafted, and I stayed up later than I'd planned to finish reading.


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The Zero Blessing The Zero Enigma Book 1 edition by Christopher Nuttall Brad Fraunfelter Children eBooks Reviews

Yeah, sure, it's another magical boarding school, but the magic system is different, nicely imagined and well realized (although I was taken aback by the term "forger" for quite a few chapters!)

It also moves at a glacial pace. I think half of the internal monolog is the protagonist repeating that she has no magic and is vulnerable. Sure, yes, this is a major part of her character, and the larger part of her situation, but it doesn't need to be re-stated on every single page.

And yeah you get what's going on well before she does and you the reader are supposed to. I couldn't help feeling I got it a little earlier than I was supposed to, though. This is overshadowed by, well, the way the protagonist suffers through the book, you are really hoping that once she gets her own unique magic there is going to be a nice cathartic chapter of her, well, kicking ass. That doesn't happen, which kudos for realism and world-building and getting a three-book series out of it, but after all that whining it would have been nice to have more payoff.

Seriously, adults are useless (again). After what some of them (most of them?) put her through, it would have been nice to see Caitlyn channel her inner Harry Potter-Evans-Verres and give them all a resounding verbal smack-down.
This isn't a book of great depth. However. The characters are very engaging and the world and plot interesting and I stayed up on a work night to read the whole thing because I really wanted to know what was going to happen. While I say it's not of great depth, the main character and others do change during the course of it, they just don't spend a lot of time pondering it and I think the book is better for it. This is action oriented, and by that I don't mean car chases, but rather the characters spend a lot of time acting and reacting and how they do this shows how they grow.

The world building is basically restricted to what you learn from scenes at the boarding school, and the heroine's interaction with her family. What's there is interesting, but I'd like to know more.

The idea of a zero becoming a 100 is what many of us daydreamed about when we were 12 too, so I think a lot of kids would enjoy this (there is nothing whatsoever about this book that would make me call it inappropriate for teens and tweens). The book does deal heavily with bullying, and the characters aren't exactly mature because they're 12. But the heroine does mature throughout the book, and she makes mistakes that she and those around end up paying for so she learns from those.

I don't think the book requires a sequel, but I'd read one if the author wrote it. Since he doesn't have one, instead I went out and bought 5 other books by him. Reading this was a really fun experience, and I'm looking forward to other books from him.
This book and world is the author's second or third (depending on how you classify "bookworm") dip into the trope of Magical Boarding Schools. It's nice to see an author being willing to start a new series to try a different view instead of trying to smash the concept into his existing series, especially when the author is as good at creating interesting characters as Chris Nuttall is.

In this case the twist is that almost everyone in the world has some magical ability though it varies a lot in level, but the heroine has none at all. This of course means she's going to struggle in any school environment where the average child can turn anyone unprotected into a frog (or slug or...). It doesn't help that she's one of the three children of a very important and powerful wizarding family and that her sisters are "normal". How she manages to survive and thrive using her wits and ability to study is the basis of the story.

There's plenty of drama and interest, and Nuttall does an excellent job of showing how different things look to a poor outsider compared to a child of privilege such as the heroine.

If I have one criticism of this book it is that the trick that allows her to final triumph is perhaps too well signalled in advance and it may lead to some issues in the sequels because I'm not sure how she can survive the future. But I'll be happy to buy the books and find out!
The story was entertaining for my grandson, and I must admit it also kept me looking forward to reading it. However, I got a bit tired of the malice shown by people who should have loved one another. Heck, even students who didn't know one another were hateful and spiteful. The premise was good, but overall, the story contained an extreme amount of bullying! I can't even say that the leaders, instructors, or administrators were fair or even honest. It isn't a book that teaches much in the way of values to be honest. It was just a magic school filled with mean spirited students.
In a world where everyone has at least some magic, Caitlyn Aguirre has none. Her parents insist on sending her to an elite school of magic - and have the prestige to get her accepted. Her situation is a bit worse than that of a tone-deaf student sent to a school of music. At least pranks aimed at the music student can't turn her into a frog.

The writing is of moderate quality. I enjoyed this book - and plan to get the sequel, if there is one - but it felt as if the author dashed it off carelessly. The world in which the story is embedded is generic-medievaloid There are kings and there are peasants, non-magical technology is implied to be pre-modern, and the existence of magic seems to have remarkably-little effect. The magic itself - aside from the central plot device - is not fleshed out, but it appears to have been pinched almost-wholesale from the author's "Schooled in Magic" series. The boarding-school-bully subplot also feels heavily-reused. (The elite magic school does not appear to screen students for magical ability, academic background, or even literacy. Since the protagonist and a major secondary character are in danger of failing for lack of prerequisites, this is a heavy-handed plot device.)

The protagonist is engaging and sympathetic. The writing is well-crafted, and I stayed up later than I'd planned to finish reading.