Series
Magic Ex Libris
Jim C. Hines · 4 novels · 2 novelettes · 2 short stories · 2009–2018
Libriomancer opens Jim C. Hines's Magic Ex Libris series, following Isaac Vainio, a magic-user who can reach into books and pull out objects (and occasional trouble) described within their pages, as he's drawn into a modern-day conflict involving vampires and a secret magical order. The series has fun with genre-savvy references to other books while building its own rules for how book-magic works. It runs across four novels published between 2012 and 2018.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
Map
Magic Ex Libris at the centre, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 2000s1
- 2010s7
Shape
4 novels · 2 novelettes · 2 short stories
1 author
reads like:urban fantasybooks and readingnorth americacontemporaryadventurousadult
Mood
Bright and intense: 80% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 44%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book5 of 8 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- Revisionarydarkest · calmest
- Mightier Than the Swordbrightest
- Unboundmost intense