Review: WOW!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 10 10, 2011
I am not often impressed by books I read.  But M.M. Mancey's The Cripple and the Staff is a well written, well plotted, well developed fantasy novel.  This impressive work hits the trifecta, so to speak.  The story follows the journey of a street rat in a poor village who eventually becomes a powerful and immortal magician.  It's a magical journey, and the author does a superb job in taking the reader along for the ride.I do note that the concept of Elsiks using drawings of human life energy for magical fuel is not a new idea.  C.S. Friedman's 2008 novelFeast of Souls: Book One of the Magister Trilogyrevolves around this concept of drawing as basis for her world's system of magic.Fantasy lovers should definitely buy this novel!