Everyone knows about the price paid by artists with their second effort -- the "sophomore curse" befalls the second work--usually the curse is a lack of originality compounded a lack of polish.

Jay Seaborg's sophomore project, "The Price of Magic" DOES NOT suffer from the "sophomore curse." While this volume is slightly trimmer in size than the first volume in the series, it is as well-crafted as the first, albeit a little slower in pacing.

Further development of characters introduced in the first book keeps things interesting and it's nice to see a male writer have female characters that are as complex and as important as the male ones. As before, the characters are believable and approachable. Characters squabble, get tired, pissy and cranky. They're not all goody-goody perfect and the bad guys aren't necesarily totally evil. Everyone one has tough choices to make and it doesn't always end easily or happily.

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I guess everyone has those authors floating around in their peripheries, often recommended by friends and favorite authors, who you know you'll like but just never have gotten around to reading. Terry Pratchett has been one of those authors for me. Everything about my tastes has suggested that I'd like him, and sure enough, having read The Color of Magic, I expect I'll be reading more of Pratchett in the future.

I began with The Color of Magic because it's the first of the Discworld novels, even though I'd heard that it wasn't Pratchett's very best. I'll admit that it does feel, at moments, like a first novel. The plot is episodic, really several shorter stories with the same key characters. As the first in a series, the novel strays sometimes from the story itself to describe the Discworld universe. These moments seem tangential in the immediate reading experience, though I'm sure they're important for fleshing out a storyworld that can sustain the series.

Still, the novel has a certain undeniable magic. Pratchett has a talent for word-play, and the characters and situations are likable and absurdly funny. The running motifs, like the luggage and Death, are called upon deftly to create the best moments of the novel. And in the various creations in this novel alone--the circumfence, the imagined dragons, the eight spells, and Discworld itself--Pratchett exhibits a seemingly endless imagination. I've copies of the next Discworld novel and the Pratchett's latest State of the shelf-known and aims to explore the world.