Control Point

I'm torn about how to sum up my feelings about this book - is it flawed and doesn't work for me? Or is it ambitious but doesn't work for me? This post will have spoilers because I don't think I can discuss it without.

The basic premise of the book is that some event has happened in the relatively recent past of the story and now people are developing magic powers - they manifest in some particular power (controlling fire, say, or opening gates) and it can happen to anyone at any time. And the US (the world?) has reacted by categorising them, prohibiting some sorts, and (I think) conscripting them all into the army. Oh and by invading another dimension, with its own indigenous population that are called "goblins" by the humans.

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