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A Fistful of Sky
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There is a family of "witches" that receive magical talents at the onset of puberty. The middle child and protagonist, Gypsum LaZelle, is extremely late on receiving her gift, and at the age of twenty, believes that she will never have magic at all. When her gift finally does appear, it turns out that unlike the rest of her family, her gift is to cast curses instead of ordinary spells like everyone else. While this may not sound like such a bad thing, the main drawback of magical powers is that they have to be used fairly frequently or the witch in question will build up an excess of magic until they become so poisoned by it, he or she sickens and dies. This was the fate of a relative of Gypsum's, who refused to hurt other people with her curses.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })The novel, written by Nina Kiriki Hoffman, deals mostly with Gypsum's struggle with finding a non-destructive use of her cursing ability and with her relationship with her family. | |
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Cursed with Awesome: Even with the large amount of drawbacks of the cursing ability, it's still manageable with creative usage. | |
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Blessed with Suck: Gypsum gets awesome magic powers... but the power of cursing means that she has to hurt someone, corrupt something or turn another magic awry if she wants to prevent herself from becoming sick. | |
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Covers Always Lie | |
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Covers Always Lie: The protagonist is extremely overweight, with short curly hair and the person on the cover is definitely not her. Nor is that a scene from anywhere in the book. | |
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The Call Put Me on Hold | |
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The Call Put Me on Hold: Of the late bloomer variety. | |
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My Beloved Smother: Gypsum's mother uses magic to try to control Gypsum and get her to do things like try to lose weight (unknowingly to the point where Gypsum becomes malnourished and dehydrated) or force her to talk when she's being sullen. This enrages Gypsum's father. It's also implied at the end that Gypsum's mother has secretly been using magic to manipulate her children and stop them from moving out of the house and leaving her even when they are growing into adults with their own careers, though Gypsum's oldest sister has found ways to overcome their mother's control. | |
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