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As expected, Chima‘s debut is not as polished as her more recent work. Despite occasionally clunky writing, however, Chima crafts an engaging story about an ancient magical society, unnoticed by no magical people, in which magicians fight proxy battles through warriors who engage in sanctioned tournaments…to the death. Jack has lived ignorant of his place in this society for 16 years & then one day everything changes. Fun read to end 2022.

I really enjoyed Chima‘s most recent book, Children of Ragnarok, and decided to start working through her backlist while I wait for the sequel. Starting with her debut—the writing is definitely not as polished (as you would expect) but so far the story is fun and I‘m enjoying it.

Jack is a normal teen, until the day he forgets to take his medicine. Soon his Aunt Linda arrives and he finds himself digging up a relative‘s grave in the dark looking for a special sword. When a stranger with special powers comes after him, Jack finds he has powers and is able to fight back. Little by little he finds out he must learn to harness his power in order to save his life.
Great story, terrible narrator

Audio crocheting. 😊

The warrior heir like Chimas other books is a delicately crafted series of misfortune and trials of dangerous proportions. The story follows a boy named jack who was born a wizard but turned into a warrior. Due to the lack of warriors to fight for them in the wizards games the wizard guilds are after him and in a effort to escape capture and almost certain death jack has no choice left but to defend himself.

Great YA series interesting concept great writing

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The story here is ok. I don't know why but I just can't get on with most YA fiction. I love middle grade but YA not so much. Still the story was ok. However the audiobook version was hands down the worst I think I've ever heard. The narrator was horrible. But the worst part was the editing. The narrator was constantly swallowing into the mic, breathing hard and you can even hear background noises like people talking and a cell phone!Skip the audio