Tuesday, May 18, 2010

New book

I read Spellwright by Blake Charlton over the weekend, and it was good!  It was one of those high fantasy books we're seeing more of recently where the author creates a new and specificly intricate system of rules by which magic operates (other examples are Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson and Shadowfall by James Clemens).  In this world, there are different magical languages which wizards use to shape spells.  The main character, Nicodemus weal, is an unfortunate type of wizard called a 'cacographer' whose touch immediately causes magical words to become misspelled and corrupted.  The story was very engaging and fast-paced.  I didn't want to put it down.  Of course, also like most new fantasy novels, this was only part one, so now I have to wait for the next volume to be released.

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