Review: Fun coming of age female heroine.  Slightly young adult but fun for older readers.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 5, 2014
Pulled from her crummy teenage life Emily is suddenly thrust into a world of magic.  She accepts this with amazing aplomb.  As a child of destiny (her mothers name is Destiny confusing all the prophecies in a comical quirk) she has great potential and is  sought after by nobles and evil sorcerers.  Learning to develop her powers, training, developing friendships with princesses and fighting evil necromancers  all part of normal growing up in a world of magic.A magical school must bear comparison to Harry Potter Hogwarts.  This school and the story have many similarities.  But this story is a quicker read and moves along faster than Harry Potter, as the storyline and the characters are just not as complicated.  By creating an entirely new world the author avoids the complexity of interacting with the world of mundanes; but also misses the fun of  that interaction.  But a future dimensional portal is not ruled out, as Emily daydreams about importing atomic bombs.  The world has consistent rules and has potential to develop into a good series.The barriers to creating an industrial revolution are large but some ideas she should be able to transfer like assembly line production,  the printing press is not that complicated (the name tells you how it works) once you capture movable type setting, distilling wines into spirits, stirrups, ...  How to make money off this might be little more difficult, but not impossible.  I think using Emily's mundane background to give her new insight into how to use magic against evil necromancers is a good directional twist.  Next will be laser beams, pulling a vacuum, time dilation by traveling at high speeds, perhaps drawing on comic book hero powers....A fun mindless romp through a new world of magic.