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Work Experience
- Schooled in Magic, Book 4
- Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
- Series: Schooled in Magic, Book 4
- Length: 13 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Categories: Teen & Young Adult, Literature & Fiction
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In the summer between second and third year at Whitehall, Emily accompanies Lady Barb on her rounds of the Cairngorm Mountains, bringing magical help to the locals and searching for new magicians. For Emily, tired and broken after the events of Study in Slaughter, it should be a chance to relax as well as to visit a new part of the Nameless World, to put her responsibilities aside and just be herself.
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- Luke
- 23-07-17
very great
amazing book best one yet definitely gripping would listen again great book great performance 5 star
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- bookfairy
- 22-04-17
Adventurous and thrilling
A great audiobook and another brilliant adventure with Emily in the Schooled in Magic series.
I thoroughly enjoy these books.
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- Utente anonimo
- 17-01-22
It just gets better
Better and better, brilliant story, characters and storyline are brilliant, away to continue the series.
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- Jay
- 27-11-18
Very good
Enjoyed this book and makes me want to get the next one. Not as good as the first one but still good. I think it's a matter of things to come for the next lot
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- Amazon Customer
- 11-01-17
good read
it is Fun and good read looking forward to the next book in the series
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- Neil
- 19-12-16
Please finsh all the books
If you could sum up Work Experience in three words, what would they be?
Great book in the school in Magic tails when will the next one be out?
What did you like best about this story?
Just keep you gessing to what ealse she is going to interduce form a her time.
Which character – as performed by Tavia Gilbert – was your favourite?
Emmy
Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
Yes but work keeps getting in the way.
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- Amazon Customer
- 10-12-17
good but a bit of a letdown
I had great hopes for the this book but it was a bit anti climactic. it could have been much better if the author would have realised that his character needs to mature more and more. through the book it felt like she is still the same scared little girl as when she was abducted
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- Trudy Owens
- 02-01-17
Series keeps getting better!
This is not my favorite series, but it has become enjoyable. The first and second books were somewhat annoying to me for the way-too-many references to Harry Potter and Star Trek and other similar stories. I prefer nods to other works rather than in-your-face mentions. And I found the narrator's shaky voice annoying too. Either she has toned it down or I have grown accustomed to it. This series is not as good as Harry Potter; the details do not flesh out the people or places; many things are just cut-outs rather than convincing. The main thing I question most is why, why would Emily think developing gun powder would be a good thing for this world.
But I have grown to enjoy the story and will finish the series. I keep hoping for answers to how this place fits into Nuttall's universe of Ed Stalker's Marines and the Galactic Empire. Stalker was mentioned in the first book, so the timing has to be contemporary, yet the Earth Emily comes from does not seem to be the one Stalker left, nor the one the Childe Roland is Emperor of. Emily does mention the "previous Empire" so it has led me to think that Earth actually did survive the fall much better than it seemed to be for the girls living there at the time of the fall.
Volumes 3 and 4 contain too much talk of sex and homosexuality for the youth that I deal with. That both exist is one thing; I just prefer more decorum. I would not recommend this for high school students or younger.
Again, the story has caught me, and I am curious to see who Emily becomes, and how things resolve there. I have many questions about the plot, and am anxious to see if they are answered!
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- Jack Cards
- 23-04-17
Tavia Gilbert raises the bar
Her voices are so good that you forget that a female is the narrator when a male is speaking, There's nothing that interferes. with the story. I am now a number one fan! The story is a good one and has some moments of anxiety where you have no idea how the heroine is going to get through it. Good book!
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- sean anthony
- 19-02-17
Very addicting!
With each story we see that mixing earth concepts and magic can have mixed results. Watching Emily grow with each challenge is very addicting.
Mr Nuttall is a very creative writer. And I say keep them coming!!!
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- Frances
- 14-12-16
Work Experience
If you like the series, you'll like this book 4. Emily gets a summer job working with Lady Barb as a healer. She sees more of the Nameless World and runs into another necromancer. Well worth a credit.
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- E L E
- 30-03-21
Great YA Series
A refreshing return visit to the Conneticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court trope.
Be aware however that their are feminist anti-male themes (sick most men are abusers) laced into the plot.
This 'woke choice' by this author often threatens to derail the delightful coming of age story about a modern girl learning that giving advanced technology to a mideval alternate world does not fix all their problems.
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- Steve
- 11-11-20
Oi...
To start, before writing this, I read through Gordian Knot so I'm pretty involved in the series and like a lot of what Nuttell does. I've read and listened to a lot of Nuttall's stuff. He come up with some REALLY awesome plot lines but sometimes his writing come off as super biased. Maybe that is because he is from Scotland and this Yank just doesn't get his mindset sometimes. But to me, these books have been a neat story line with a bad execution. In example I find Emily's inner dialog so very annoying. Always talking about how she "made" the princess a good person. Always going on about how backwards the world is and comparing it to Earth. For someone who supposedly doesn't miss earth, she complains a lot. She is so obsessive about how awesome she is, how insecure she is, how traumatized she is by her past... it sometime make me want to reach through the dimensions and bitch slap her. Maybe Nuttell wants the reader to find Emily extremely annoyed by her. A very insecure girl, who also thinks she is right about everything. Just wow, sit back and think about that for a moment.... Moment over. So I found a number of these books a staggered attempt at getting into a young female mindset. Maybe that is actually how teenage girls are, and I'm super disconnected, but if so... sorry girls, get over yourselves. As you read/listen further he (or she) will get better, but not by much. I love a strong female lead, but I think Emily is that only part of the time, the rest of the time she is waffling is a world where she needs to nut up or shut up. Also the learning curve in the books has been odd. she learned SOOOO much much magic in her first year or two. Over the next number of years after she nickel and dined her way through school. After both Past Tense and Sergant's Apprentice I thought, "Finally, let the bad ass out!" but nope... she continues to waffle. So, a brave attempt to Nuttell to take on the mind of a teenage girl, but sometime I have wished the necromancer's would turn her into their sock puppet to stop her whining.
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- Utente anonimo
- 27-07-20
so exciting!
I couldn't stop listening! i Foyns this boom better than the previous one in the series.
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- Kyle
- 28-12-19
What an interesting way to become an Apprentice!!
Wow! This book is such a rollercoaster. It starts out rather slow and takes a bit of time to get going, but if you can stick with the slower parts you'll be really surprised and thrilled. This book definitely proves that she's one smart cookie.
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- Susan Johnstone
- 01-07-19
Enjoyed it very much
I wish this series came as a bundle because I can get through a book in a day, I'm going through my credits way too fast but I'm addicted, I have to find out what happens next.
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- Paula
- 20-04-19
It's not my favorite book, but is pretty good
The story is less exciting than the previous ones, but it has high points. As in every series, this story presents the maturation of personangem.
It is not one of my favorite books, and I will hardly try to read this book again, but it is an indispensable book for understanding the sequence of events.