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The Thinking Woman's Guide to Real Magic

Written by: Emily Croy Barker
Narrated by: Alyssa Bresnahan
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 Emily Croy Barker’s riveting debut novel is a must-read for fans of Lev Grossman and Deborah Harkness. The Thinking Woman’s Guide to Real Magic follows grad student Nora Fischer as she stumbles through a portal into a magical world.

Having been transformed from drab to beautiful, Nora finds herself surrounded by glamorous friends. Life seems perfect. But then things take a terrible turn, and Nora must learn magic from a reclusive ally if she is to have any hope of survival...

©2013 Emily Croy Barker (P)2013 Recorded Books Fantasy Fiction Horror Romance Magic Scary Paranormal
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I have a hard copy of this book and have reread it a couple times. Different world, magic, danger, romance and intelligence- just great stuff.

The performance is perfect, so incredibly easy to listen to, not to mention she kills all the crazy pronunciation with ease.

Biggest issue: my impatience waiting for book 2, nearly 3 years since I first read it! :p

Magic!

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I am a fan of Austen, Harkness and Grossmen so this was a no brainer. It was a fun listen and I'll probably listen to it again.

Fun and worth a listen

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great narrator. really enjoyed the story. a satisfying light-ish read. engaging characters and entertaining villains. would read the sequel, which seems an implied possibly

thoroughly enjoyable

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I really enjoyed this story, and it had a lot of great things in it, but I wish it had gone a little further with some of the things it tried to do with the character. I was a little annoyed at the romance plot that was pushed in there, but it was overall a lot of fun!

A fun fantasy story if you don't want much from it

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