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Featured Fantasy: A Blight of Mages by Karen Miller

July 4, 2025 by Carolynn

Featured Fantasy: A Blight of Mages by Karen Miller

$1.99 as of July 4, 2025
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A privileged mage forges a troubling romance with an aspiring student of the mystic arts in this epic prequel to the Kingmaker, Kingbreaker fantasy series.

Hundreds of years before the great Mage War, a land lies, unknowing, on the edge of catastrophe…

Barl is young and impulsive, but she has a power within that calls to her. In her city, however, only those of noble blood and with the right connections learn the ways of the arcane. Barl is desperate to learn—but her eagerness to use her power leads her astray and she is banned from ever learning the mystic arts.

Morgan holds the key to her education. A member of the Council of Mages, he lives to maintain the status quo, preserve the mage bloodlines, and pursue his scholarly experiments. But Barl’s power intrigues him—in spite of her low status.

Together, he realizes they can create extraordinary new incantations. Morgan’s ambition and Barl’s power make a potent combination. What she does not see is the darkness in him that won’t be denied.

Praise for the Kingmaker, Kingbreaker series

**“A solid epic that posits political intrigue, ethereal prophecies and a rags-to-riches hero against a vivid if familiar fantasy backdrop. . . . Miller’s prose is earnest and engaging.” —**Publishers Weekly on The Innocent Mage

**“Intriguing characters and a finely tuned sense of drama.” —**Library Journal on The Innocent Mage

“The sort of conclusion you remember for years and keep revisiting in your imagination.” —Glenda Larke on The Awakened Mage

Filed Under: Box Set Featured Fantasy, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: A Blight of Mages, Kingbreaker, Kingmaker

Book Review: Winter Pilgrims (Kingmaker Book 1) by Toby Clements

August 6, 2022 by Carolynn

Well, this was a lot of bloody, gory, emotional fun. Maybe I don’t mean fun. But despite this not being what I normally read, I really enjoyed Winter Pilgrims, a historical adventure about two ordinary people surviving in England during the War of the Roses, a civil war that raged from 1455 – 1487.

The book starts in 1460 when our main characters, a nun and a monk, are run out of their respective cloisters for angering a blood thirsty lord. This two pair have to make their way in a violent world filled with death, disease, and destruction. The book doesn’t skimp on the dirt and grime in this time period, or the lack of sanitation. Urine is used to clean wounds, and despite urine not actually being sterile, was probably better than most wanter at the time.

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Filed Under: Book Reviews Tagged With: Kingmaker, Toby Clements, Winter Pilgrims

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