Oscar Britton is an army officer in a special group who hunt up the newly awakened magic users who are cropping up all over the place. No-one knows why but they're a danger to everyone around them so they're rounded up for their own safety. Now Oscar himself is showing signs of magic breaking out ...
What if people suddenly manifested magical powers and those powers were either deemed illegal or only could be used under the jurisdiction of the government and military? What if you're in the military and all of a sudden, you manifest powers that are considered forbidden? That's Oscar Britton's jou...
A few weeks ago, I stumbled onto Myke Cole's blog post on the portrayal of violence in fantasy. Cole's writing had the solidity that comes from personal experience, and that's something I've rarely encountered on the subject. Cole talked about his own experiences during his three tours in Iraq and...
The main character, Britton, kept making mistake after mistake. Eventually those decisions turned into idiocy. He was very unlikable, all the way up to the end of the book. The author pushes you to believe in the lies that are told by the government Britton worked for and then turns around and uses...
Despite all the hype, reviews and conversations I've heard about this book, it still caught me by surprise. With Myke's pedigree in the military and some of the descriptions, I expected a military book with some magic sprinkled in. What I got was a magic themed book with military as the secondary pa...
I stumbled upon this title because one of my favorite Fantasy author made a review of it. I've read more stories written by female authors lately than men....the fact that this story is written by a guy in the military also didn't hurt. I know nothing of the military life so I can't judge as for the...
As seen on Stumptown Books.This book is considered "military fantasy." Who knew that was a thing? I certainly didn't. That might be because I don't consider Malazan or Song of Ice and Fire military fantasy, I consider those high fantasy. When I think "military," I think guns and push ups and Ride of...
This book was reviewed by Michael Cummings, senior review with the Fantasy Book Addict.Imagine everyone woke up one day to discover that magic was very much real again. As with so much in our modern life, the first reaction of the government would be to regulate it, to determine what the best uses o...
I hate to say it but I'm afraid this book just isn't doing it for me. I'm finding it really heavy going and the excessive military terminology keeps pushing me out of the story.I'm not a big fan of Oscar so far and I didn't understand his reaction to the teenagers at the beginning of the book. They ...
Usually books like this are right up my alley. I love military sci-fi so was looking forward to a different take with a military paranormal. I couldn't connect with Oscar and while I didn't actively dislike him I was kind of ambivalent about him. It all went downhill from there.
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