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    Seeking Dr. Magic
    Seeking Dr. Magic
    Seeking Dr. Magic
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    Seeking Dr. Magic

    By Scott Spotson

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    Chaos reigns around the world. Strange creatures, accorded the title "Phantom Ninjas" by the media, are leaping off tall buildings and somersaulting back up without any scratch - and then disappear. There follows more spontaneous acts of magic, confounding the world. Who - or what - is responsible? In the middle of the mystery arrives Detective Hetfield, a private investigator just recently released from the FBI due to an on-the-job injury. Hetfield, who arose to fame as a star witness in the murder trial of a beloved actress, uses the media to put forward the theory that a person of extraordinary magical powers is behind all the incidents, and labels him Dr. Magic. Hetfield gets much more than what he bargained for when that powerful being does exist - in the form of a young man long disillusioned with his past - and cruelly takes him up on his offer.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherScott Spotson
    Release dateAug 8, 2013
    ISBN9781301971046
    Seeking Dr. Magic
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    Scott Spotson

    Scott Spotson is a novelist who excels in imagining scenes of intrigue and adventure within ordinary lives while daydreaming, then pulls together various plots to create a compelling story. He likes to invent “what if?” scenarios, for example, what if I could go back to my university days, and what would I do differently? What if I could switch bodies with friends I am jealous of, like the guy who sold his software for millions of dollars and does whatever he pleases? What if I had the power to create clones of myself to do my bidding? Scott then likes to mentally insert himself into these situations, then plot a way to “get out” back to reality. This is how “Life II” and “Seeking Dr. Magic” were born, within weeks of each other. He’s still working on dreaming up a situation where he gets to smash a pie in the face of his boss, with no justification whatsoever – how to get out of that one?Scott loves to travel and is partial to the idea of spending extended vacation at ski resorts up in the mountains. You know, the one like in the James Bond movie “On Her Majesty’s Secret Service” where the view is breathtaking, there’s an outdoors hot tub facing a pristine snow covered mountain, and one can warm up inside on a bear skin in front of a huge cobblestone fireplace, sitting on a circular wooden bench fitted with animal pelts and sipping at a mango and pineapple smoothie mixed with a touch of grenadine – okay, he’s getting too carried away!Scott has visited Taiwan, Australia, New Zealand, Sweden, Germany, Denmark, Iceland, France, Mexico, Austria, the Netherlands, Switzerland, England, and Hong Kong.As can be deduced from the beginning of “Life II,” Scott loves brain teasers.

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    • 3/5
      This is one of those novels that is very hard to rate. While it was an entertaining read, there were also a few aspects of the plot that gave me pause.Seeking Dr. Magic is not really a story about magic. It is more a mystery story which contains elements of a coming of age story. It seems to be based entirely about some hypothetical scenarios - what if a little boy was born with incredible powers? How would his ordinary parents respond? How could he ever be disciplined? What kind of man would he grow into? - which the author did approach in a fairly interesting and original way.However, the story was riddled with absurdity which might put off some readers. While some of these were quite entertaining (more stories should contain phantom ninjas), others just pushed my suspension of disbelief so far. Like when Detective Hetfield manages to deduce Dr. Magic's identity, picking his picture out from all of the boys who disappeared in England ten years previously on a hunch. The story also ended a little too neatly, wrapping up a lot of loose ends in the final few pages and resolving some major plot points off page, which made it feel very unsatisfactory on the whole.With regards to the characters, I did prefer Dr. Magic. Although he started off too arrogant to be likable, he received a great deal of development as the story progressed. Once his back story was revealed, he became very sympathetic. Hetfield was less so as his development was less clear. He seemed to fluctuate wildly between being obsessed with fame and shunning the limelight and in the end, it felt as though he had learned nothing. Additionally, his love life took place entirely off page which was a real shame. Hetfield could have done with someone else to bounce his feelings off as this would have made him feel more human.All in all, it's a very strange novel and worth a look at if you're curious. It's not every day that you get to read a novel with phantom ninjas in it.
    • 3/5
      An attention seeking magician gets exactly what he wants from the world when he has people appear around the globe doing the same impossible stunts and then simply disappearing. While the news goes crazy and conspiracists have a field day, one detective riding a popularity train after a well-publicized case decides he could help share the limelight. Naming the unknown person behind the extraordinary events, he becomes the focus of Dr. Magic. Or maybe we should say the victim of his magical pranks. Who is this mysterious man? What is his purpose? Will he go too far in getting attention?Overall ThoughtsI have to admit that I wasn’t too sure about the book. The overall synopsis only grabbed me lightly. When I began reading, I have to say that I was hooked as I had to know what was going on. It is an interesting story that has you guessing at every page.PlotThe plot is what keeps this story going, yet many times I found myself thinking the author was stretching himself to achieve the plot he wanted. It tended to be meshing the ‘real’ world to that of the magical ones that send the public into a tizzy. This causes the story to be rushed in several places.CharactersThe characters themselves were very interesting. The detective really didn’t deviate from his profile though he does grow a little in humility and understanding when he looks at Dr. Magic as more than a venue of getting attention for himself.As for the magician himself, he stays mainly in the shadows until he reveals himself to the reader and the detective. Then we get to see more of him and begin to understand him better. He is an enigma that I feel is left underdeveloped as the story closes. So much had been built up around him that he lets me down in a big way.Other minor characters tend to not feel real to me. I could not see some of the people interviewed by the detective acting the way they did. The drama seemed forced with these characters instead of natural. Reactions from the characters were nearly too dramatic. I think more description around the dialogue might have helped as well as more realistic dialogue.EditingThere were many places within the story where I felt it was apparent that there was little to no editing. It wasn’t so much an issue with commas or grammar. It was more the flow of the story and inconsistencies. Several times it was worded that time had passed as in days and weeks while it had only be two or three days. The wording implied one thing while the timeframe laid out revealed something quite different. I found myself going back and reading sections over again to verify where my thoughts were heading.Final ThoughtsThis is a relatively short read and is a very interesting book. I think with more in the way of content editing, it could be an amazing story to really get the attention of readers. If you like versions of paranormal with some mystery, you should give the story a try. Again, it is not a long read.Disclaimer: I received this book from the author with no expectation of a positive review.

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