Review: part 2 of three
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 02 17, 2014
I was very impressed with Christopher Nuttall and the first book about Elaine, a woman with weak magical power who is somehow impressed with the knowledge of all the books in the library and then has to somehow use that knowledge to save her city. In the new book we meet Johan an heir to a noble family who was born without magical powers. His brothers and sisters torment him. so it's natural that he would be at a protest against the misuse of magical powers. Then his brother and friends attack the protest, turning people into weird things. Something snaps and Johan has powers that evoke naturally without needing the spells that all other magic users have. Elaine is forced into training him, trying to figure out how his powers work. Then he takes magical powers away from a magician, doing evil things, and all political hell breaks loose. There's a third book planned to resolve all the naritive threads, but there is enough of a ending to satisfy.