Review: Great ideas, meh story.
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 09 18, 2012
Note: this is also available in the collection "The Smell of Magic and Other Stories," a ten story collection currently selling for $2.99 that has some great stuff.  Buy that instead of this single story for $0.99.Apprentice Kelde returns to his home town to help his master with the annual Revealing Ceremony. They use their well honed senses of smell to test children who have reached the appropriate age to identify those touched by magic... and execute any they find.The writing is decent and the world and premise are very interesting, but the story itself is cliched and doesn't live up to its potential.  Didn't enjoy it nearly as much as other things I have read by Lewis.