5-Star Books in Five Words – Magic Systems

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Welcome to Fantastic Top Fives with Wyrd & Wonder!
Wyrd and Wonder have brought back their Top Fives prompts, so every Friday this month, we’ll be tackling the prompts in our 5-Star Books in Five Words feature.
The first prompt is Your Favourite Magical Systems or Spells. These can be stories shaped by spells, your favourite spell, or your favourite magic system!
A big thank you to all our contributors for their excellent recommendations!
Underlined book titles in bold contain links to reviews on this site.
Nils
Ink Blood Sister Scribe by Emma Törzs (out in July)
Books
Really
Do
Hold
Magic
Beth
Threadneedle by Cari Thomas
Entanglement;
spells
and
family
curses
Julia
Gates of Hope by JE Hannaford
Songmagic,
animal
companions
and
adventure.
Martin
The Belgariad by David Eddings
The
will
and
the
word.
Theo
The Deathless by Peter Newman
Take
relatives’
bodies,
live
forever.
Dorian
Chasing Graves by Ben Galley
Hey,
buy
yourself
a
ghost!
Gray
The Scholomance by Naomi Novik
Drat,
My
Magic
Only
Murders
Jonathan
A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
Find
the
thing’s
true
name
Hil
A Necklace of Raindrops by Joan Aiken
Sometimes
a
single
tear
suffices
Next week, we’ll be looking at our favourite reads that feature magical songs in some form!
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I do love Scholomance. And I’ve seen an increase of Threadneedle recently <3
You sold me on Ink Blood Sister Scribe in 5 words! Love this list!