The Ancient Magus' Bride Vol. 11

ISBN
9781642751017
Publisher
Seven Seas
English release
Pages
180

Settling into the College is the business of The Ancient Magus’ Bride’s eleventh book. Chise and Elias encounter lessons from students and allies, with the Church and the Seven Shields among the institutions in view. This is not the reason to buy the run on its own: the appeal depends on following how established characters fit into the school introduced earlier. Read it as time spent learning the company they now keep.

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The College gives Chise and Elias a place to study, but the publisher’s premise places some of their lessons outside its walls. That distinction stops school from becoming a complete answer to the problem of education. Students, allies, the Church and the Seven Shields represent different routes to information; a curriculum is only one of them. The interest here is in orientation rather than an advertised decisive payoff. Someone buying a single dramatic sample would be choosing a book whose stated attraction is becoming acquainted with an already expanding set of relationships. Its value depends on that continuing investment.

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