Ratings24
Average rating4.2
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Ratings24
Average rating4.2
Alex Verus can see the future. But he never thought he'd see this day. Manoeuvred by forces beyond his control, the probability mage has made a terrible choice: he's agreed to work for his old master once more. Richard Drakh, the sadistic dark mage Alex escaped as an apprentice, has him in his clutches again. And this time, he won't let go so easily.
Series
11 primary books13 released booksAlex Verus is a 13-book series with 11 primary works first released in 2012 with contributions by Benedict Jacka.
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Benedict Jacka
CAWPILE SCORE
C-9
A-8
W-8
P-9
I-9
L-9
E-10
TOTAL-8.86/10
Wow, what an start, middle and ending. Lots I didn't predict and lots I did. For having read this I remembered very little. I was clearly wrong when talking about the last book thinking more time had gone on than actually had. Great changeup to the writing style. Loved where the story went. Good foreshadowing.
CAWPILECharactersAlex and Anne, Just tell her how you feel Alex!!I feel like it's a small backtrack for vari's character that he is obsessed again, with just attacking. But he had good Alex-Anne adviceRichard—Jinn whats the goal mysterious as everLuna-Backslid because of a loss of direction. And depression loss of selfworth.Rachel-thought we were making some good progress til the end and maybe we are.Atmosphere/SettingGetting the Shadow dimension is a nice thing. Alex spending more time in the council.WritingInteresting writing, breaking it out into months. Good technique. Lots of foreshadowing that its Anne not Alex. PlotAlex has to work as Morden's aide, and perform odd jobs with “Archon”. Tasked with getting a dreamstone, gets 2 . can't train with it. Morden's council attack sneak attack on Vault. Anne bonds a Jinn InvestmentLogicThe tricks that they pull. Morden attacking the council. Deleo and her let Alex dieTemporary loss of magic from Richard at lightbringer and at Verus.????!!!EnjoymentLoved every minute of it.Misc“Lightbringer and Zilean” talking about why nobody trusts the council. How many are truly loyalAnne's TortureRichard has Untyped?? Black magic. Some dark mages aren't as bad cinder, chaliceLuna restarting Arcana EmporiumALEX is ACTING JUNIOR COUNCIL MEMBERAlex's temptation to go full dark. History of Genie's in the lampThe snark. I love it. What am I supposed to do while I'm experiencing this honor.Zilean – it wasn't personal. Its always personal to someone
I will be talking about it on Libromancy https://libromancy.podbean.com/ on 08/07/22
The focus this time around is more on the politics of the Council, with Verus taking part in a series of missions that he doesn't really know the reasons for. Fortunately, the world-building is as excellent as usual, and the story moves on at quite a fast pace. In a sense, we're just moving from one part of the story to the next here, but it's written well enough, and there are enough interesting scenes along the way that it works rather better than one might expect. And we end, once again, on a cliffhanger.
