After reading “The Paper Magician,” I noticed that there were some faults that I hoped would be built and improved in the second book in the series. However, I feel that this book had the same issues that the first one in the series had.

In “The Glass Magician,” yet again we find Ceony in a place where she needs to the save the day. Mg. Thane has healed from getting his whole heart stolen, so business is as usual until a paper mill that Ceony was touring for her apprenticeship blows up. Excisioners are after her again. I feel that we don’t get a clear picture or understand the true motivation of the Excisioners. We just know they are bad and must be stopped, and somehow an apprentice fresh out of magic school will do the job. Not only that, but she’s going to figure out how to break an unbreakable bond that much older and practiced magicians have never been able to do before her.

I feel like there was an element of racism in this book. The bad guy happened to be Indian, and Ceony even noted that she shouldn’t feel bad vibes from a guy just because he’s foreign. I did not like that.

Ceony is still in love with Mg. Thane, and in this book, we learn that he also has feelings for her. I don’t know about all that... The element of romance didn’t need to be in this series, but I suppose every heroine has to have a lover (even though it hasn’t gotten to that point yet).

Overall, I did enjoy this book, but this world has SO MUCH POTENTIAL and it isn’t tapped at all. Slowly we learn bits of what this world entails, and I’m going to continue reading it because I have high hopes.