Justin W. Parente

WHYYYYY JONATHAN?!?

Revisado: 10-13-24

All I have to say is why? Why that last chapter and painful epilogue. WHY?

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This one was hard

Revisado: 02-08-21

After the Divergent success, I had high hopes for CTM. Perhaps it was the audible format. But I just couldn’t get into the story enough. I found it difficult to feel attached the story when a lot of the elements felt reused for your usually coming-of-age YA with a romance subplot. Although the romance bit didn’t feel as forced with the plot device of the current gifts and how they work. Can’t say yet if I’ll read/listen to The Fates Divide (if I do, it’d probably be because MacLeod Andrews is co-narrating).

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A compelling enough story...

Revisado: 09-09-18

Magician’s Impossible kept me listening because it was a fresh take on warring magicians stories. The warring factions are more like high level spies and use their varying forms of magic of infiltrate and cripple the enemy organization whom they’re trying to stop from obtaining a precious relic that can win either faction the war. The protagonist was okay. A little boring at first, his life uninteresting. He climbs through the ranks very quickly. Even though he is uncommonly powerful for being new, I would have really liked to see more failure in his attempts at becoming the next level.

Speaking of next level, this is one of the cooler parts of this story. In these factions, the type of mage you are and the current abilities you possess eventually stack as you become more powerful. All of these powers they learn lend toward the idea of what spies require to be successful and the best in their craft. However, that being said, like my previous comment, I think would have liked to see a backfire element developed in the stacking of abilities. In the current set up, any mage can grow and become just like any other. They are no longer unique. They all have the same abilities. An involved consequence would have made those stakes of intense training a little more interesting.

The rest of the story is okay. Only okay. It moves both fast and slow at times. General tropes are a plenty in this story, none of which I’ll say to keep it spoiler free. The tropes are actually glaring at sometimes. At one point, I asked myself, “the author didn’t really do that, just to achieve this reaction.” But, he did.

Anyway, Magician’s Impossible is a good read. Worth the 8+ hours. Narrator is great. Voice changes are spot on, especially with dialect shifts.

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