Edge of your seat ride

A thoroughly good tale of hidden magic in a mafioso world. Very well written with lots of fast paced, tense battles.
Andrew is a great storyteller and would love to hear more from him too. Only negative is the distinction between some of the characters isn’t always obvious and I sometimes found myself lost as to who was speaking at times.
Definitely looking forward to the next books in the series though!

This is my honest opinion of a free review copy.

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Good magical system and start to this series

This book was a bit mixed with the pacing, sometimes it was spot on with the amount of stories and characters, but at other times it did seem to drag and the overall duration might have been better if it had been shorter with a bit more ruthlessness during the editing phase.

However, despite this minor complaint, it should not detract from the overall quality of a book that provides an entertaining and extensive cast of characters, a well-realised world and an interesting system of magic. While Jon Christensen is the main character in the book, the supporting characters all contribute significantly and feel fully realised.

The narrator does a good job with this book, coping well with the task of making the extensive cast sufficiently distinctive from each other most of the time and keeping a suitable pace in what is quite a lengthy book.

Overall, this book did a good job of world-building for subsequent ones while at the same time providing enough story for it to also work as a book in it's own right and not just as a book one of a series.

[Note - I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.]

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Gripping urban fantasy

Overall this was a very good book. I did prefer the second half of the book a lot more. There was a section in the first half where there were quite a lot of people introduced at once and I got a little bit confused keeping track of them.

This book has an interest take on 'Magic' and I loved it when the system and history was explained later in the book. There is plenty of action and fights. As I said before I liked the second half as it was more group building, character development and learning creative ways to you use powers but that is more personal preference.

I like all the main characters and they were very realistic in their motivations and believable. From the way the book ended and hinted on the next book I'm really interesting in that one as it sounds like it's going to be more 'powering up' / getting stronger to defend what the group has built and the inevitable coming fights.

Very strong narrations that keep me on the edge of my seat on the action parts and gave all character distinct likeable voices.

[Note - I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.]

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Poor quality

Not to my liking, maybe someone else might like it but I have to emphasize and like the characters for me to like the story and I feel the book is needlessly long with annoyingly descriptive writing.

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Great book - looking forward to the next one.

I really enjoyed this book. Well written and well narrated. It has a compelling story. I like how the protagonists powers worked and I am looking forward to seeing more of the world in the next book.

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A well written urban fantasy!

For a change I'm going to start by talking about the narrator. I always seem to talk about them at the end of the review. The narrator fits this book perfectly. He gives us a sense of pace that perfectly matches the story whilst vividly bringing these characters to life.

We have a fringe culture, maybe a sub-culture that's just under the surface of the normal world. Objects of power bond with people giving them gifts that could also possibly be thought of as curses given their everyday struggle for survival.
The plot is captivating and quite humorous and the book itself is quite unique in all the right ways!

Thanks to great characters and a well written plot I found myself immersed in the book and really enjoyed it from start to finish. It's both relaxed and full of life. I rally enjoyed it!

This book was given to me for free at my request and I provided this voluntary review.

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loved it!

I really enjoyed getting back into the fantasybooks again,and hoping they will relase the second book soon 👏👏👏

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