Work Experience

Schooled in Magic, Book 4

By: Christopher G. Nuttall

Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert

Length: 13 hrs and 11 mins

Publisher's summary

In the summer between second and third year at Whitehall, Emily accompanies Lady Barb on her rounds of the Cairngorm Mountains, bringing magical help to the locals and searching for new magicians. For Emily, tired and broken after the events of Study in Slaughter, it should be a chance to relax as well as to visit a new part of the Nameless World, to put her responsibilities aside and just be herself.

But the locals aren't quite what she expects, with problems of their own, and Lady Barb is a different person away from Whitehall. As children start to go missing and evil things are abroad in the night, Emily discovers that a deadly plot is slowly bringing the mountain community to the brink of disaster and that her oldest enemies are about to make a very unwelcome return.

©2014 Christopher G. Nuttall (P)2016 Podium Publishing

Great Series

This series spliced multiple writer's styles together creating an excellent fantasy university. Although the Gordian Knot is not his best book. It was probably needed to create book 14.

Work Experience

If you like the series, you'll like this book 4. Emily gets a summer job working with Lady Barb as a healer. She sees more of the Nameless World and runs into another necromancer. Well worth a credit.

Enjoyed it very much

I wish this series came as a bundle because I can get through a book in a day, I'm going through my credits way too fast but I'm addicted, I have to find out what happens next.

Good but

Simply written the one line two word description.. I. E. Emily shuddered get annoying fast

so exciting!

I couldn't stop listening! i Foyns this boom better than the previous one in the series.

good

very good, funny at times and good flow with decent characters and plot. worth buying

Totally a fan

Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

This series can give Harry Potter a run for the money. I loved the interaction of the characters. The story stimulated my imagination.

What other book might you compare Work Experience to and why?

Harry Potter and the schooling he receive.

Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

This book made me very happy, sad, intrigued and above all relaxed.

Jason

loved it, can't wait for the rest of the series...so rich and amazing a concept that is continually growing in each book.

Series keeps getting better!

This is not my favorite series, but it has become enjoyable. The first and second books were somewhat annoying to me for the way-too-many references to Harry Potter and Star Trek and other similar stories. I prefer nods to other works rather than in-your-face mentions. And I found the narrator's shaky voice annoying too. Either she has toned it down or I have grown accustomed to it. This series is not as good as Harry Potter; the details do not flesh out the people or places; many things are just cut-outs rather than convincing. The main thing I question most is why, why would Emily think developing gun powder would be a good thing for this world.

But I have grown to enjoy the story and will finish the series. I keep hoping for answers to how this place fits into Nuttall's universe of Ed Stalker's Marines and the Galactic Empire. Stalker was mentioned in the first book, so the timing has to be contemporary, yet the Earth Emily comes from does not seem to be the one Stalker left, nor the one the Childe Roland is Emperor of. Emily does mention the "previous Empire" so it has led me to think that Earth actually did survive the fall much better than it seemed to be for the girls living there at the time of the fall.

Volumes 3 and 4 contain too much talk of sex and homosexuality for the youth that I deal with. That both exist is one thing; I just prefer more decorum. I would not recommend this for high school students or younger.

Again, the story has caught me, and I am curious to see who Emily becomes, and how things resolve there. I have many questions about the plot, and am anxious to see if they are answered!

a big fan and incurage othervt9 r

I've always been a great big fan of the series and I'm happy with the audio content as well