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Magic Required
- A Lochlan Ellyll Novel
- Narrated by: Patrick Zeller, Addison Barnes
- Length: 6 hrs and 50 mins
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Summary
In the year 2047, Lochlan takes the bus to his soul-sucking job answering phones to remain unnoticed. Life is easier that way. Little attachment. Few friends. That means less people caught in the crossfire when he loses control again.
The last time he came close to losing it was when he was around Zemila. That was five years ago, just before he disappeared. That was why he disappeared. He’s good at that. Disappearing. Resettling. Being overlooked.
That is, until the visions started. Prophetic visions.
That’s when he knew the Old World had found him.
These weren’t the fun kind of visions…if there were such a thing. They were the watch-people-die kind, the try-to-stop-it-before-it-happened kind, the maybe-save-some-lives kind. He thought the visions were his redemption. A redemption he didn’t believe he deserved. When one of them led him to Zemila, he thought it meant he wasn’t a danger to her anymore. That he wasn’t a danger to anyone anymore.
Power attracts enemies. Lochlan thought he’d learned this lesson.
He was wrong. Wrong about the visions. Wrong about everything. And it was going to cost him.
Him and everyone he loved.
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- Siobhan D
- 04-11-22
magic
I loved the dual narration of Patrick Zeller and Addison Barnes
This book as it all, Magic, mythology, mystery and romance. With twists and turns. Lochlan is the son of a demigod. He lives a solitary life and tries to blend in with humans. He works at tech and security company with his best friend Jenner.
An entertaining book.
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- VoraciousBookDragoness
- 26-10-22
Story well written and great narration
Story well written and great narration.
I am voluntarily reviewing a copy I received free from the author.
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- Anonymous User
- 21-12-20
Great book
A very good unusual book, well worth a read. Very engaging with likable characters and an unusual story in a saturated genre. Looking forward to book 2.
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- Amazon Customer
- 06-07-21
A good story with very well done narration and voices
I found this easy to follow and the ending wasn’t predictable. It was quite gripping at some points, and the voices done really well to show different characters. I don’t know how excited I am to go onto the next book, as I didn’t feel too emotionally drawn to the characters but overall it was worth the listen and I did enjoy it. Would recommend
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- Ian Rider
- 07-03-21
Very entertaining.
I was given a free copy of this book and I'm leaving an honest and voluntary review.
This is a great first book on this serise. I was very quickly drawn in, its an engaging story with great characters and a plenty of depth, its very imaginative and extremely well delivered.
The narration is flawless giving a winning performance, bring the story to life.
I'd definitely recommend this book to anyone.
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- william
- 16-04-21
enjoyable listen
ok so I got tuned into this book really easy good story line likable characters an narrator does good job I jumped straight into next book
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- Swierkowski Alain
- 17-01-22
Cool story
I was gifted this book by the Author for an honest review. The MC is a demigod immortal living as a tech support dude in a call center, which make him a very little bit relatable to me. He's also ditching everyone to get a new ID every 10-20 years to conceal his forever young age and waiting for signs of possible redemption for a dark past, and inheriting from himself in the process, which make him very hatable from my point of view.
So he finally get some redemption signs in the form of dreams, about people to save apparently. But it's not a thriller, we are not following a true investigation, we are following signs, myths and prophecy, sprinkled with irish folklore and mythos while also following the day to day life of Lochlan and his surprising rich socialising life with his friends. Never would have though tech support would earn so much in the US. The author also try to subvert most trope in this story.
It's not the most amazing story of the year, by far, and the MC passivity make me want to smash him, but at least it got me intersted in the following, since it is apparently the introduction for a more epic story. Technically the narrator is good, but since there is alsoa female narrator for the last chapter, I don't understand why she is not voicing all the female characters too.
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- Mk
- 01-08-20
Wonderful
Listened to this book in a just couple of days. The story moves fast, is very easy to follow, brilliant and fleshed out characters, superb pacing (for the most part). Narration is pretty good too on the audiobook, it's actually better than the written version if you ask me, because there are some accents involved and the narrator nails them. Can't wait for november when the second part called Dominion required is released.
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- Jeff
- 18-12-21
Easy read and enjoyable
“Hogwarts is real!?” - “not exactly”
This book had me from the first few chapters to the very end. It’s not often I read for longer then an hour at a time but I read this in 2 days. (My quickest read yet!) (adhd I can’t focus to long)
The story follows Lochlan our main character who begins the story telling you about his past before slowly exposing his Celtic roots and what he is. And the story develops in a linear fashion introducing characters as they are needed and giving a full sense of who they are and why we need them in our story.
The narration of each of the main characters was perfect. You got a good sense of how deep they understand one another and trust one another.
The story has its twists and turns and it has a passion behind the story it has depth.
All in all a really easy read I loved the fact the last chapter is read from another characters perspective and I can’t wait to read the next one in the series
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- ChaosKay
- 04-04-21
Ok
Although the story was good and the characters were likeable I found it to be a bit drawn out . I was given this book free for an honest review .
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