Isaac Vainio is a Libriomancer, a member of the secret organization founded five centuries ago by Johannes Gutenberg. Libriomancers are gifted with the ability to magically reach into books and draw forth objects. When Isaac is attacked by vampires that leaked from the pages of books into our world, he barely manages to escape. To his horror, he discovers that vampires have been attacking other magic-users as well, and Gutenberg has been kidnapped.
With the help of a motorcycle-riding dryad who packs a pair of oak cudgels, Isaac finds himself hunting the unknown dark power that has been manipulating humans and vampires alike. And his search will uncover dangerous secrets about Libriomancy, Gutenberg, and the history of magic. . . .
If it weren’t for Lena’s...”problem” this would have been 5stars, but that part kinda squicked me out and while the way it was “resolved” at the end was mostly ok, I don’t really think it was necessary in the first place and my feelings are really complicated over it
Libriomancer Libriomancer is a great book. Note that this is my opinion. It introduces a fabulous and (to me) new way to use magic, and it deals with (how surprising) books and people who do wonderful stuff with them. And people who do less than wonderful stuff too.
Books, vampires, dryads and automatons, anyone?
Awesome fantasy story revolving around the premise that magic pulls things out of fiction. The main character works in a library in Michigan's upper peninsula while simultaneously cataloguing books for a secret society of mages founded by Johannes Gutenberg. This book is full of literary references and quite a few pop culture ones too. It was excellent.
This was just pure fun. I loved the way the author weaves literature (modern as well as classic) into his fantasy world, and combines all that with reality, as when the libriomancer is disgusted to learn that not only do the vampires he's arguing with not understand his Lord of the Rings literary reference, they've never even seen the films. Well, well worth reading.
