This product or book may have been distributed for review, this in no way affects my opinions or reviews.Life can't get much better for Sam Lock. Popular, good-looking, and with a future as a professional football player. every guy at Stanton High School wishes he were Sam. That is, until his championship football game, when Sam accidentally links with an ancient source of energy known as the Veil and reveals his potential to become a powerful sorcerer.Sam is whisked off to Atlas Crown, a community of sorcerers who utilize the Veil as a part of everyday life. Once there, he trains beside a mute boy who speaks through music, an eternal sage who's the eyes and ears of the Veil, and a beautiful girl who's pretty sure Sam's an idiot.As it becomes clear Sam's meant for power magic-the most feared and misunderstood form of sorcery-people beyond Atlas Crown learn of his dangerous potential. An exiled group of power sorcerers are eager to recruit Sam, believing that he is destined to help them achieve their long-held goal. If they succeed, they could bring about the downfall of not only Atlas Crown. but all humankind.
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Sam is the perfect hero. He tends to do well in school and on the football field. However, after one bad game, he finds himself in an oddly still world. He learns that he might have frozen time...but how and why? Magic always seems to have consequences and it isn't long before Sam is taken into a "leaning institution" to control his newfound abilities.
Sam goes through the "normal" lessons that are supposed to teach him about his magic, but he ends up learning plenty about himself...about his own strengths and weaknesses. Being a teenage boy, he doesn't have the time or the will to sit around learning magic and desperately wants to get back home (who wouldn't, right?). Sam still manages to keep his good humor, for the most part. The other characters will intrigue and mystify the reader at times. The author develops them to that point where the reader wants more, but has to wait until another chapter. The plot itself is different, a little Harry Potterish with Cohen's own twist. This book has some slight tinges of romance, mystery, magic, and humor, perfect for young adult/teen readers.
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Dan asked: “What’s the most impressive magic you’re ever seen performed?”
Sam Lock: (Grinning like an idiot) Did you say magic? You mean figuratively, right? Because there was this one-handed catch I had where I dove [rest of answer omitted because of extreme length].
Daphne: One time I was with May in the grow fields and she called like every bird in Atlas Crown. Thousand of birds, every color imaginable, all came and May tossed handfuls of seeds into the air and the birds each caught one and flew away. I’ve never seen anything more beautiful. There was no chaos. The birds all fell in line like a dance. May said that another magical community had lost one of their fields—she never told me how—so she was sending a new one. It doesn’t get much better than natural magic.
Cassiella: I love watching Rona. He can drape anything. He made me a wooden flower that only blooms on the full moon, but when it opens up it gives off whatever smell would make me most happy. Last moon it smelled like honey and nettle-melon.
Rona Rono: (His eyes darken) If you don’t mind, I’d like to skip that question.
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"This Book was brilliant, creative, and completely magical. If you want an amazing book to read in 2012, I would suggest you go to the bookstore and pick up a copy of Masters of the Veil."
~Julia @Inkbitten
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Daniel A. Cohen was just your average business student. Microeconomics, finance, marketing… you name it, he had to do a PowerPoint presentation on it. One dark and stormy night, he was bitten by the radioactive realization that memorizing business jargon could possibly be the most boring activity known to man.
After gaining eagle-eye vision, abs that could grate cheese, and a talent for imagining things (including his cheese-grating abs), he wrote his first novel and began his epic battle against the formidable business jargon. He continues to fight the good fight by playing saxophone and writing YA fantasy, forever hoping his Veil trilogy will help inspire others to join his cause.
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