Alex himself seems like the kind of smart kid you wouldn’t want to trick because he’d get you back in a way that you wouldn’t see was coming and you would certainly not realise it was him. The light and dark mages, plus other characters for are fun. Dark mages haven’t disappeared, they’re just living among the Light mages. Since Light mages won a concord was put together and has rules for both sides to live by. It was a conflict some 60+ years before Fated and was a battle for Earth between the light and dark mages. There is a nice history to this world that involves the The Gate Rune War. It’s different enough to be different but you still can’t help but compare. “I’ve heard of a guy in Chicago who advertises in the phone book under “Wizard”,though that’s probably a urban legend.”įated, and I assume the whole series of Alex Verus, is set in London and so you will immediately compare this to Rivers of London. This comes in handy for the story when Alex is recruited to steal a magical artifact from inside the British Museum in London. Think of how Doctor Strange searches for a way to beat Thanos and finds that one method of beating him – this is what Alex can do. What Alex can do though is see into the future. He has magical abilities but not what you might expect in the traditional sense. That's if he's not too busy avoiding his would-be apprentice, foiling the Dark, outwitting the Light, and investigating a mysterious relic that has just turned up at the British Museum.The books in the Alex Verus series are as follows:FatedCursedTakenChosenHiddenVeiledBurnedBoundMarked.Fated follows a man called Alex Verus who owns a magical shop in Camden. He won't sell you a wand or mix you a potion, but if you know what you're looking for, he might just be able to help. In the heart of Camden, where rail meets road meets leyline, you might find the Arcana Emporium, run by one Alex Verus. Where minor celebrities hang out with minor criminals and where tourists and moody teenagers mingle. A tangled, mangled junction of train lines, roads and waterways. Books this good remind me why I got into the storytelling business in the first place' Jim Butcher, author of the Dresden FilesCamden, North London. Fated is an excellent novel, a gorgeously realized world with a uniquely powerful, vulnerable protagonist.

I just added Benedict Jacka to my must-read list. ***The million-copy-selling series***'Harry Dresden would like Alex Verus tremendously - and be a little nervous around him. The start of a compelling new urban fantasy series based in Camden, featuring Alex Verus - a mage with a dark past who can see the future. We're sorry this specific copy is no longer available.

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