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Sorcerer

Dear Spellbook, Volume One

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Sorcerer

By: Peter J. Lee
Narrated by: Travis Baldree
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Hello stranger, my name is Tal, and I’m not an adventurer—those people are crazy. I’m just a sorcerer who is masquerading as a wizard. Oh, and I’m searching for answers about my parents’ mysterious deaths. Also monsters and other foes seem to show up wherever I go.

All right, I see it.

My new traveling companions are seasoned adventurers and are teaching me their ways—or at least they were before something happened to Time.

The same day is repeating itself over and over, and I’m the only one aware of the resets. If I ever want to get past this day—and the horrific hangover it always starts with—I’ll need to find a way out by myself.

It turns out there are mysteries aplenty to unravel in this remote forest town of Crossroads, where I’m living the same day over and over. But my most vital resource might already be in my possession. My previously useless Spellbook is starting to exhibit some very strange abilities, and they could be just what I need in my quest to escape this temporal prison.

This is my story. My diary of sorts. Don’t judge too harshly, I had a rough day.

©2023 Peter J Lee (P)2023 Portal Books Epic Epic Fantasy Fantasy Fiction Magic Magic Users

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A nice take on a story of time looping. I found it very engaging and have bought the second book as I want to know how it plays out. Hence in my opinion it's well written and performed.

Strange diary

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While sometimes the book was bit hard to follow, this was definitely one of my favourite time-loop based progression fantasy novels. The world had a lot of history and mysteries, many of them not solved before the end of the trilogy which gives me hope that there might be follow up books. There is no Harem, no LitRPG elements, and while there are plenty much murdering and even some torture in the books its mostly not detailed enough to be disturbing. One thing to note is that the novel is written as a diary with added pages from other books and first hand accounts from some of survivors of the time loop, the order of the pages is not exactly following the chronological order, and given most of the novels content happens during the time loop, things can get confusing. Especially in the beginning, this novel starts with a rather hard in medias res. The magic system of the books is well detailed if a bit confusing sometimes, and the mc's struggles are fun to listen to. There are bit too many "fateful encounters" and lucky events in the novel, but it can be chucked up to the mc having some kind mysterious luck blessing. Really my biggest problem is that the books ended before resolving the party's side quests, and the fate of the big bad evil. There really should be a 4th book. If you like this novel I would also recommend reading Mother of Learning by nobody103 . There is also new series by the same author called Primal Wizardry which happens a century after Dear Spellbook.

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Interesting take on time loop progression, good thought given to mechanics and solid world building.

Fresh Take on the Time Loop

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I like time loops but the problem with this one is it is set in a fantasy town in the middle of nowhere which leaves the protagonist with not a lot to do. There are things to investigate but they are an hour or two ride away by horseback. There isn't much going on in the town for a 1 day time loop.

If the loop was 3 days or a week it would leave more possibilities but this is very limited. The best bits of the book relate to the backstory of how the characters came together because more can happen then. The entire book covers one day which starts late anyway because he wakes up hungover.

Groundhog day skipped a lot of this BS and whizzed through whereas this book goes over each day and many of them are very samey. The protagonist never has a fun/wild day or does anything crazy. It's just "I heard about monster, I investigate monster." "I heard about goblins, I investigate goblins."

I don't know why I didn't vibe with this one. It was competently written and well narrated but I never cared for the characters.

Nothing really happens

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I really enjoyed this and my main complaint is that it ended so soon!

Excellent narration from Baldtree, a well conceived system of magic, a likable protagonist, and just enough world building to keep you intrigued as things get uncovered. I look forward to the next installment!

Thoroughly enjoyable time loop fantasy

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