Alex Verus runs a magic shop in London. He’s also a mage. He’s not Harry Dresden. I liked the set up of the world in this book. Magic here is hidden, but there are people that are mildly magic that get drawn into the orbit of the magic users. We meet one of them in […]

I finished a series! (Ok, fine, they ended up extending this series, so there’s more to read, but I finished a unit of published books, which is a big deal for me!) The book starts with the birth of Kate and Curran’s son Conlan, and jumps ahead to him being a very precocious toddler, which

This is a fun premise – some people have the ability to reach into books and pull thing out from them. They have to be popular books – the amount of reading and energy people are putting into them helps the magic. Johannes Gutenberg (yes, that Gutenberg) has joined them all into an organization to

Cleric Chih and their bird Amazing Brilliant are back, traveling to collect stories. In this tale, they’ve ventured into the Riverlands, where they encounter two young women travelling, and decide to join forces. They’re ambushed, which is when Chih discovers that one of the young women is a martial arts master. It’s at this point

I loved this story. It’s back in the jazz age, so we get a young Thomas Nightingale, which was a lot of fun. But the real hero of this story is the narrator – Augustus Berrycloth-Young. He’s a graduate of the same school as Nightingale, but was only ever going to be a middling magician.

This is a nice interlude kind of story in the greater universe of Mercy stories. Mercy’s half brother shows up at her house an absolute mess – he can’t speak, and barely seems to know where he is. After some investigation, they find out it’s due to some very particular not actually Fae magic. This

I suspect you’re not going to love this book if you’re not already a Penric and Desdemona fan. Not a lot happens to further any real sort of plot, but it’s a lovely little slice of life for Pen’s family. Wyn is apprenticed to his uncle, and recognizes a demon possessed ox on their worksite,

I had a really hard time getting through this book, and I can’t figure out why. Our story starts with Field Marshall Tamas having just headed a coup to remove the royal family of Adro, and their cabal of magicians. Tamas is a different kind of mage – powder mage in this case, and the

This is a lovely novella. Tobias is the local wild man in the woods, having lived in a small cottage for four hundred years. When a new owner to the local manor comes across Tobias’ small cabin, he wakes up powers that have lain dormant for many years, and throws both mens’ lives into new

This book is set in the world of The Goblin Emperor. Thara Celehar, who helped the titular emperor discover who had killed the old emperor, has been granted a living in Amalo. He’s in a bit of a weird place – directly reporting to the Arch-Prelate, but not really part of the local hierarchy. So