In this book, we have male mages, called magisters, who get to live forever and have uber casting powers by stealing other people's life force, since each mage only has a limited amount of magical casting ability within themselves. Women either can't, don't or won't do this, until one girl finally decides to figure out how. This magical ability is a big secret since the magisters know that if people found out what they were doing, everyone would kill them asap. Makes sense-who would want a bunch of parasite magic casters killing off random people so the caster can be all powerful?
Yeah, the set up sounds dumb, but the book really works. The author really captures the idea of how awful and wonderful is it to be a magister, and how magisters come to view their world after a number of years. We see first hand how a victim is affected by this, and how it changes their life.
Oh yeah, there are also some horrible giant dragon creatures that eat magic and torture people making a come back and the world needs to be saved from them. I will totally read this series.
Feast of Souls
C.S. Friedman
meh/58
1 comment:
Uniquely interesting blog; a good read.
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