Third Time Lucky

This was a delightful set of short stories from Tanya Huff about the life of the world's most powerful wizard, if the world's most powerful wizard was the epitome of a 90s slacker. Magdalene has everything she ever wants, at the snap of her fingers, but completely lacks any of the ambition or thirst for power that so often characterizes wizards. This makes perfect sense for the character because hey, magic, and Huff fills the stories with enough humour and excitement that the overpoweredness of the character never really seems out of place.

Another interesting element of the story is that the publisher took advantage of ebook publication in an interesting way. The stories are presented in order of publication, but each also has a hyperlink at the end that allows you to follow the stories within Magdalene's internal chronology as well. It's an interesting way of having the technology influence the storytelling, and for stories about a wizard it seem especially apropos.