Past Tense

Schooled in Magic, Book 10

By: Christopher G. Nuttall

Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert

Length: 13 hrs and 11 mins

Publisher's Summary

Their past is not what they think it is....

Thrown back in time after the spells binding Whitehall School together nearly collapsed, Emily finds herself in the days of Lord Whitehall. But everything she knows about the past is a lie. The Whitehall Commune is in hiding from a great and terrible foe, while some of the legendary founders bicker like children and others call on deadly and untrustworthy entities with agendas of their own.

Desperately seeking a way back to her own time, her mere presence a boon and a curse to established history, Emily is drawn into a conflict against both rogue wizards and a mysterious force intent on exterminating all magicians before the future school can take shape. But as deadly powers converge on the castle, her time is running out...and, deep beneath Old Whitehall, something dark and dangerous is about to be born.

©2016 Christopher G. Nuttall (P)2017 Podium Publishing

Frustrating

Dislike how the author handled the main characters approach to the timeline. Sometimes Emily is just frustrating when the answer or action to take seems so obvious or simple but she has the whole “woe is me” attitude, constant fear and trepidation. Emily even came from the modern word and has mentioned the many-worlds theory a dozen times I. The series but can’t come to the conclusion that anything she does is supposed to happen because if it wasn’t it would make her never happen, therefor never letting her go to Whitehall, and never fall into the past in the first place, and never cause whatever it is that she’s internally arguing with herself about. The paradox would prevent her from doing anything that would break her timeline.

If you subscribe the the “every decision that can happen does happen” theory, then anything she did to break her timeline wouldn’t actually be.. her timeline. Her timeline would remain unchanged therefor have no negative consequences on her version of events.

If it wasn’t for the fact that it would ruin layer books, I would have skipped chapter after chapter till Emily got her head out of her ass.

I LOVE THESE BOOKS

These books get better and better. I love the character development, the twists and turns, and the depth of the stories. I'm addicted!!!

I miss tavia

I didn't know how good she was until I went back and replayed the whole saga. I wish she came back for the last books.

loving the time travel

I'm loving the time travel! Heroes always are fantastic in stories, but what are they like in real life? would you make a deal with the devil if there was no other choice? This book covers all of that and more. Can't wait for the next book.

missing segment at about 1:19:00

please look into this. I hate missing out on a part.

15 words. blah blah

my favorite book of the series

I liked this book series, but I love this book is my favorite. I found it very imaginative.

The best book of the series

WOW! This is the best book so far.... Say that I love it usb't enought....
The author has created a plot that intertwines Emily's life with the past and the present and leaves the listener intrigued by the consequences of this experience ....

Best one so far

I don't know if it is the story line or that she is more grown up, but I loved this book. I've listened to it 3xs.

Way cool!

I don't mind saying the obvious: time travel.

Even so, how much more powerful does a person get!? The story is that good, as usual.

What a book!!

I have listened to all the stories in this series so far and book 1 and this book 10 is by far the absolute best!!! Like whoa blew my mind. I was all kinds of emotional listing to this!!

Very Well Done

Brilliantly tied in story, to the past and the present. These stories are a work of art, thankyou.

Absolutely brilliant! Couldn’t stop listening!

Would you listen to Past Tense again? Why?

This book is one of my favourites in the series by far! It was so exciting I couldn’t turn it off I lost so much sleep! It was so satisfying & I was gutted when it ended! i wanted to know so much more about the characters from the past and what happened to them but the author tied up their stories quite well in the end.

What other book might you compare Past Tense to, and why?

It’s hard to compare this to any other book as the story was so original with excellent twists and turns.

Which scene did you most enjoy?

I enjoyed every chapter of this book but the ones with lord wolf & Emily creating the spellware for the nexus point wards was very interesting and clever.

If you made a film of this book, what would be the tag line be?

Thrown into the past to save the future!

Any additional comments?

This was definitely my favourite book of the series; finding out how Whitehall school was created along with all the twists, turns, political infighting and past magical ability. The monsters from the past are extremely formidable & finding out how the mimic’s were created was really unexpected and cleverly executed.