{"id":19877,"date":"2024-08-07T19:44:02","date_gmt":"2024-08-07T23:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=19877"},"modified":"2024-08-07T19:44:02","modified_gmt":"2024-08-07T23:44:02","slug":"the-ethics-of-magic-by-robert-arrington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=19877","title":{"rendered":"‘The Ethics of Magic,’ by Robert Arrington"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Here\u2019s a light, fun novel,<\/strong> aimed primarily at conservatives and Christians. And it works pretty well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mitch McCaffrey, hero of The Ethics of Magic<\/a><\/em>, teaches at a community college in rural North Carolina. He enjoys his work and is dating a woman he hopes to marry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But he has an enemy. Monica Gilbert, the Compliance Officer at the college, has it in for him. He\u2019s a white male, in the first place, and he teaches the classics in his courses. She suspects him of holding the \u201cwrong\u201d opinions, something she feels must not be tolerated in higher education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But her motivations go deeper. First of all, she once made a pass at him and he turned her down. Nobody does that. Worse, his girlfriend is a woman she knew as a girl, and hated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But worst of all, Mitch is a magic practitioner. Monica can tell because she is one herself. She\u2019s eager for a showdown, to awe him with her power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When a few students make a complaint about Mitch, he\u2019s soon facing a hearing to determine whether he\u2019ll be dismissed. That\u2019s when he retains the services of lawyer Kathryn Turner. All this begins the first adventure in Robert Arrington\u2019s \u201cHaunted Law Firm\u201d series.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I had some quibbles with The Ethics of Magic<\/em>. The prose was adequate, but there were frequent misspellings and typos. I thought the villains were painted a little broadly \u2013 they reveled in evil too much. Most people \u2013 even the Woke \u2013 honestly believe they\u2019re doing the right thing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And, although most of our good characters here are Christians, and attend church, Mitch and his girlfriend are sleeping together outside marriage. I suppose that sort of thing flies in some churches nowadays.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But outside of those things, I must say I enjoyed reading The Ethics of Magic<\/em> very much. It was a lot of fun, sort of John Grisham meets Harry Potter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here\u2019s a light, fun novel, aimed primarily at conservatives and Christians. And it works pretty well. Mitch McCaffrey, hero of The Ethics of Magic, teaches at a community college in rural North Carolina. He enjoys his work and is dating a woman he hopes to marry. But he has an enemy. Monica Gilbert, the Compliance … Continue reading ‘The Ethics of Magic,’ by Robert Arrington<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7,15],"tags":[5281,5282,5280,5283],"class_list":["post-19877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","category-reviews","tag-haunted-law-firm","tag-mitch-mccaffrey","tag-robert-l-arrington","tag-the-ethics-of-magic"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19877"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19878,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19877\/revisions\/19878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}