Wars between mages are very different from wars between countries. When countries fight, if they want to attack into enemy territory, they have to go through the other army to do it. Mages don't. Gate magic let's strike teams appear anywhere at anytime, attacking and then disappearing back to the ot...
This review can also be found at Carole's Random Life in Books.This was another great installment in the Alex Verus Series. This is a series that really does need to be read in order since each book builds on the previous installments. I think that I am liking each book in the series a little more a...
This review can also be found at Carole's Random Life in Books.This was really good! I had never heard of this series until my friend Anne decided to host a read along on her blog, Books of My Heart, this year. Since the pace was set at only one book per month, I decided that I could make enough roo...
This review can also be found at Carole's Random Life in Books.I liked this book even better than the first installment. I think that the biggest difference was that I was already familiar with the characters and the rules of the world instead when I started this one. It was really easy to slip back...
Alex has to help the sceptical Light Council negotiate with the Dark Mages to help find the missing artefacts. He also has to deal with events from previous books and deal with problems from previous adventures. He's also having to ask some questions about his own motivations and emotions.Some of th...
This review can also be found at Carole's Random Life in Books.This was a great start to the series! I am always on the lookout for new urban fantasy series to try so when a group of friends decided to read this series, I was eager to join in. It turns out that it was my kind of book and I think tha...
All Alex Verus wanted was a quiet life running his shop, helping people occasionally find out that there were others like them and basically doing the best he could to stay out of trouble.But the dark mage he apprenticed to is back and has manouevered him into a position where he has to work for him...
“So who was it this time?” Anne asked as I walked over to inspect the device. “I can see the future not the past.” The bomb was a stack of plastique packed into the gym bag, the wires ending in contacts stuck into the blocks. It was crude but powerful, enough to blow apart the house, the victim, a...
Alex is in trouble, the council have voted to kill him and his dependants so he has to try to ensure that at least his apprentices are safe, he also has to deal with an artifact that his former master is trying to steal and the end has him have to make some hard decisions. This series just keeps get...
If they'd just leave him to his cozy bookshop and his quiet life he wouldn't keep getting in the way of their nefarious plans and making friends along the way, even if some of them have issues with him calling them friends. Anne Walker is one of them, she has serious issues with how he dealt with so...
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