ABANDONED. Book about boy who is the only one who doesn't have magic when everyone else does

[Mina]

I read this book a while ago (probably three or more years ago) but can't remember much about it at all. This is what I do remember:
It was the first in a series
It was a book about magic (so fantasy genre)
The plot was about a boy (teenager age I think) who lived in a world where pretty much everyone has/gets magic at one point but he didn't have magic so he was considered really weird. He had siblings I think, if so I’m pretty sure they were older then him. At the end of the book he has some kind of outer body experience (it might have been because he was dying or injured or something along those lines). Either through this outer body experience or through his dreams (can't remember which) he sees himself locked away in a castle or something. It's either a clone of himself or he is a clone of it (also can't remember which). Another thing is that right towards the end of the book he gets magic, the reason he didn't have it before was that it was suppressed or something because of that other him (clone thing).
The cover of the book was of a boy (assuming it was him) holding a sword with his back to us, and a dragon breathing fire at him.
The only other thing I remember is that in the book magic wasn't spelt magic it was spelt either magik or magick.
So yeah, good luck making any sense of that, and thank in advance I guess?

[Ann]

What age range would you say was the target audience for the book?

If it's for adults, it might be the Codex Alera series? I haven't read it, but it popped up in several places when I searched for "no magic ability", and some of the spoilers sound like it'd be a reasonable match.

[Mina]

Thanks for having a look, but I don't think thats the book. I think the book was targeted towards an audince in there mid teens maybe?

[Megan]

It could be The Un-Magician by Christopher Golden from the Outcast series https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...
It also goes by the title of Magic Zero.
I have no read this book, but I recently bought it and have been interested in it for some time. I hope this helps!

[Lara]

The first part sounds like the first Xanth novel by Piers Anthony, A Spell for Chameleon, but the rest of it isn't right.

[Kate]

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[Nicole]

The spelling makes me think of Magyk, but the idea of a sibling without magic makes me think of The Wide-Awake Princess.

[Kris]

Note: Mina (2018) was last active on the site in December 2018.

[Adrien]

Could possibly be Elemental by Antony John.

[Jeremy]

Based on your description, you might be thinking of The Innocent Mage by Karen Miller.

As I recall, the plot wasn't that the entire population had magic, but every member of the ruling class did. The MC was born without any abilities. Each family was only allowed to have one child, but since the main character was born without magic, he had a younger sister who did have the usual abilities of the nobility.
The Big Bad did something to cause the MC's powers to manifest in his teens/twenties as a means of causing chaos with the succession in the ruling class and incite antagonism between the MC and his sister.

[Kris]

No response, moving to Abandoned folder.

Mina (OP) was last active on the site in December 2018.